Commentary & Opinion

  • Rosneft Gets Bruised by Yukos

    19 Mar 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

    The once-small state-owned oil company Rosneft, which overnight rocketed itself into the role of a global oil player and Russia's biggest producer, has found that some problems with their tricky acquisition of Yukos assets are coming home to roost.

  • Russian Businessmen Sympathetic Towards Khodorkovsky and Lebedev

    18 Mar 2010 | Radio Svoboda

    Boris Dubin, head analyst of the Levada Opinion Center, comments on the latest opinion poll on Russians’ attitude towards the Khodorkovsky-Lebedev trial.

  • Decorative Due Process and Adaptive Legal Nihilism

    18 Mar 2010 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

    Legal nihilism in Russia is an adaptive animal, exemplified by the Khodorkovsky-Lebedev trial. After seven years of blatant Kremlin injustice, state prosecutors have refined their ability to hold convincing show trials.

  • Browder: YUKOS’ Lawyers Acquire ‘Huge Weapon’

    18 Mar 2010 | The Daily Telegraph

    William Browder, of Hermitage Capital Management, believes that YUKOS’ lawyers have acquired a “huge weapon” in their battle with Rosneft after the company’s lawyers obtained injunctions in the UK and US.

  • Neo-Soviet Russia and America

    17 Mar 2010 | American Thinker

    Kim Zigfield, a Russian commentator and blogger, believes that revolution is brewing in Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Russia.