http://russian-untouchables.com/eng - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:45:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/02/russia-better-clean-up-its-act-if-it-wants-investment-dollars/ http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/02/russia-better-clean-up-its-act-if-it-wants-investment-dollars/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:43:28 +0000 masa http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/?p=5550 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 closed-door session on Russian investment opportunities, held last week in Davos, Switzerland. ]]> http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/02/russia-better-clean-up-its-act-if-it-wants-investment-dollars/feed/ 0 http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/02/russia-2012-forum-highlights-the-need-to-separate-government-and-economy/ http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/02/russia-2012-forum-highlights-the-need-to-separate-government-and-economy/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:51:20 +0000 masa http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/?p=5548 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 the Russian ruling elite, as the annual "Russia 2012" economic forum showed. ]]> http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/02/russia-2012-forum-highlights-the-need-to-separate-government-and-economy/feed/ 0 http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/a-partial-declaration-of-human-rights/ http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/a-partial-declaration-of-human-rights/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:06:10 +0000 masa http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/?p=5543 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 America would not stop poking it with the human rights stick, it said (though not in precisely those words), Russia would pick up the stick, too. It appointed a human rights commissioner and promised to publish probes of its own.]]> http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/a-partial-declaration-of-human-rights/feed/ 0 http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/lawyers-accuse-magnitsky-investigator-of-exceeding-powers-hermitage/ http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/lawyers-accuse-magnitsky-investigator-of-exceeding-powers-hermitage/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:07:50 +0000 masa http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/?p=5540 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 Magnitsky against their will, the company said.]]> http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/lawyers-accuse-magnitsky-investigator-of-exceeding-powers-hermitage/feed/ 0 http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/does-the-trail-to-magnitskys-killers-lead-all-the-way-to-the-top/ http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/does-the-trail-to-magnitskys-killers-lead-all-the-way-to-the-top/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:03:01 +0000 masa http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/?p=5538 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 biggest foreign investors in Russia and now a bitter critic – asked the panel about the notorious death in police custody of Sergei Magnitsky, his lawyer and auditor.]]> http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/does-the-trail-to-magnitskys-killers-lead-all-the-way-to-the-top/feed/ 0 http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/russia-davos-party-has-unusual-opposition-flavour/ http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/russia-davos-party-has-unusual-opposition-flavour/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:29:32 +0000 masa http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/?p=5536 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 soon lose power if he doesn't undertake sweeping reforms.]]> http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/russia-davos-party-has-unusual-opposition-flavour/feed/ 0 http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/russia-criticized-for-corruption-at-davos-forum/ http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/russia-criticized-for-corruption-at-davos-forum/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:11:31 +0000 masa http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/?p=5534 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 that it's almost ridiculous that Russia is allowed to come here as a country displaying its wares. It's like inviting the Cali drug cartel to Davos."]]> http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/russia-criticized-for-corruption-at-davos-forum/feed/ 0 http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/british-prime-minister-calls-for-russian-authorities-to-show-progress-in-the-magnitsky-case/ http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/british-prime-minister-calls-for-russian-authorities-to-show-progress-in-the-magnitsky-case/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:39:03 +0000 Stop the Untouchables http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/?p=5531 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 Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, British Prime Minister stated he had personally raised the Magnitsky case with Russian President Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Putin during his official visit to Moscow last fall. David Cameron encouraged leaders of other European nations ”never to be coy” in raising this and other cases of human rights abuse with the Russian government.]]> http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/british-prime-minister-calls-for-russian-authorities-to-show-progress-in-the-magnitsky-case/feed/ 0 http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/russia-davos-and-the-rule-of-law/ http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/russia-davos-and-the-rule-of-law/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:37:16 +0000 masa http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/?p=5529 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 deputy prime minister (pictured), was unable to give potential investors the assurances they wanted when speaking about the notorious death in custody of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. ]]> http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/russia-davos-and-the-rule-of-law/feed/ 0 http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/official-comments-on-russias-visa-sanctions-against-us-citizens/ http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/official-comments-on-russias-visa-sanctions-against-us-citizens/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:13:13 +0000 masa http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/?p=5527 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 Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday as he spoke live on the air over the Echo of Moscow radio. ]]> http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/01/official-comments-on-russias-visa-sanctions-against-us-citizens/feed/ 0