In this exclusive interview, German businessman Franz J. Sedelmayer discusses his decades-long dispute with the Russian government, challenging Russia’s sovereign immunity, and the link between state corruption and the current environment of civil unrest in Russia.
There’s no shortage of mutual historic distrust between the Russian and Chinese governments. Is that changing?
Russian court officers raided BP PLC’s Moscow office on Wednesday seeking documents in a court case related to the British oil giant’s failed Arctic deal with OAO Rosneft, raising the pressure on BP just a day after Rosneft said it would work on the project with Exxon Mobil Corp. Gregory L. White And Guy Chazan document that [...]
Like a good actor, Georgia can swiftly change appearance without even leaving the stage. On May 25th it presented its ugly face, as a few hundred stick-wielding protesters led by Nino Burjanadze, a former speaker of parliament, clashed with police, who dispersed them with tear gas and rubber bullets. This was the Georgia of old, [...]
A fifth of the military hardware budget in Russia is stolen by corrupt officials and contractors each year, bleeding the state budget, and undermining the combat readiness of the armed forces, according to Russia’s chief military prosecutor. The allegations, published in a state newspaper on Tuesday, came a week after Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, [...]
As the United States and Russia look to improve their equivocal relationship, there is still great hesitation as to what the future may hold for the two powerhouses. The Moscow Times reports that both sides are eager to come to a common agreement on how they can best serve each other, but with corruption and government [...]
Over a decade and a half after the commencement of membership negotiations, 2011 may see Russia’s long awaited entrance into the WTO. Endorsed by the EU and many individual European governments, Russia’s accession to the WTO does not come without concerns from current members and the world community. While this is an important Russian step [...]
Many question the legitimacy of German trepidation regarding the building of an energy terminal in northwest Poland as further proof positive of heavy Russian influence in both Berlin and throughout the European Union. Although at face value, Germany’s concerns centre on the environmental impact, CEC Government Relations Founder Marek Matraszek believes, (as excerpted from Business New [...]
Jamestown Foundation correspondent Giorgi Kvelashvili below discussesthe de-Sovietization of Georgia, its progress based on the work and recent writings of President Saakashvili. Though the unorthodox relationship with Russia has hindered the mechanisms of autonomy in the post-Soviet state, the boom we begin to see with respect to police reform, a crucial element to ongoing civil [...]
International attorney and Corporate Foreign Policy founder Robert Amsterdam took to the podium on Wednesday, February 3rd at the CATO Institute in Washington DC to discuss in brief the role of the ‘reset‘ button in contemporary U.S.-Russia relations and the precedent it sets by both besmirching rule of law at home and abroad and indeed [...]
