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Television Interview with Eric Kraus
T&B recently participated in a series of broadcasts on the global economy and its influence on Russia for Russia’s Channel One. We requested a list of questions to help prepare for the filming, and, after the show, decided that they … Continue reading
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A Voice of Dissent – from an ex-White House Lawyer
In spite of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton blasting the Khodorkovsky ruling in December, T&B readers may be surprised to learn that there is at least someone with credentials in the US political elite to have spoken out against the … Continue reading
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A Journalist Unmuzzled! – A Private Communication
T&B just received a forwarded e-mail exchange between a British MP who protests the conviction of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, followed by a stinging reply from a prominent Western journalist who covered Russia for most of the past decade.
Is Putin pitiable, or is the FT corrupt?
Reading the FT on Russia, what is interesting is not what they write – it is why they write it. A friend of T&B was told face-to-face about six months ago by an FT editor that, as a journalist here, one’s … Continue reading
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The Khodorkovsky Death Watch
We have repeatedly thought we had said our last about the Yukos story, and that – like with the probity of the Orange Revolution team, or the Georgian invasion of So. Ossetia – the world had begrudgingly come around to … Continue reading
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