Stop the Untouchables. Justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

Russia better clean up its act if it wants investment dollars

masa — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:43:28 +0000

Reuters TV. Russia is opening up and looking to grow, but investors are scared, says Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Investment. Watch and listen as he and Chrystia Freeland dish in a...

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Russia 2012 forum highlights the need to separate government and economy

masa — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:51:20 +0000

Gazeta.Ru. Mass privatization, power body reforms, creation of a competitive political system and the pardon of Mikhail Khodorkovsky – these are the steps that foreign investors are waiting for from...

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A Partial Declaration of Human Rights

masa — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:06:10 +0000

Transitions Online. For years, Russia has tolerated the State Department’s annual criticism of its human rights situation, but not anymore. It was in April that Moscow finally lost patience. If...

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Lawyers accuse Magnitsky investigator of exceeding powers – Hermitage

masa — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:07:50 +0000

Interfax. The Moscow Bar Association has rejected a request by a Russian investigator, who asked for a defense attorney to be appointed for the family of late Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei...

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Does the Trail to Magnitsky’s Killers Lead All the Way to the Top?

masa — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:03:01 +0000

Minding Russia Blog. An interesting bit of news from a Financial Times blog with Davos gossip: The most gripping exchange came right at the end when Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital – once the...

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Russia Davos party has unusual opposition flavour

masa — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:29:32 +0000

Reuters. Kremlin clan in-fighting spilled into the open this week when government officials sympathetic with Russia's fragmented opposition warned the country's ultimate leader Vladimir Putin he may...

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Russia Criticized for Corruption at Davos Forum

masa — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:11:31 +0000

Fox News. Russia is hugely represented here at the World Economic Forum. Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital takes issue with that. "There are so many examples of high level government crime in Russia...

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British Prime Minister Calls for Russian Authorities to Show Progress in the Magnitsky Case

Stop the Untouchables — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:39:03 +0000

British Prime Minister David Cameron has called the Magnitsky case “extremely important” and urged for “more progress” to be made by the Russian authorities. Speaking this week at the Parliamentary...

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Russia, Davos and the rule of law

masa — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:37:16 +0000

Financial Times. Planning to invest in Russia? Here’s a reason to think again, courtesy of our colleague Gideon Rachman, blogging from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Even Igor Shuvalov, Russia’s...

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Official comments on Russia’s visa sanctions against US citizens.

masa — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:13:13 +0000

ITAR TASS. Visa sanctions against a number of U.S. citizens introduced by Moscow were not a mirror-like reaction to the drawing up of the so-called Magnitsky list in the U.S., Russia’s Deputy Foreign...

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