Archive - July 2005

24 hours on, and life in London seems to be getting pretty much back to normal.  The transport network, with a few exceptions, is running pretty smoothly for short journeys in and out of the capital, although the...

Now I’m back home safely (thanks to all for your concern and kind words) lets get back to what this blog is all about – Russia or, for today at least, Russia’s reaction to today’s terrorist...

Those of you who read this blog regularly will know that I’m based in London and no longer live anywhere near Siberia. There have been a number of explosions here in London today – official sources so far...

In a tale that in many ways mirrors my own ‘spiritual t-shirt wearing development’, Tim Newman explains his attachment to his CCCP t-shirt: In some way I’m trying to project the image that I have a...

Tim Worstall, who runs a company that trades extensively in Russia, has a few observations on the Russian business climate, from the perspective of the smaller business owner: The annual global market for one material...

In a bid to reduce the number of vodka related deaths in Russia, President Putin has suggested re-nationalising the vodka production industry.  This is in contrast to his ministers, who until recently, were trying...