The St. Petersburg Times  

Issue #1382 (46), Tuesday, June 17, 2008

OPINION


Immunity From the Oil Curse

Oil is so central to the existence and development of modern economic life that it has inevitably become the focus of global concerns as prices have doubled since 2006. Oil complicates economic decisions, macroeconomic policy, domestic politics and the ...

The Perfect Orthodox Wahhabi

On June 5, a Moscow City Court jury acquitted Vladimir Kvachkov, a retired military intelligence colonel, of charges that he attempted to kill Anatoly Chubais, the architect of privatizations in the 1990s and head of Unified Energy System. After being ...


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