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CISCONTENT:CONTENTRREPORTEPORT Review of ПРОИЗВОДСТВОaudiovisualПРОИЗВОДСТВО content production andПРОИЗВОДСТВО distribution in the CIS countries C Обзор новостей рынкаC производстваONTENTC и дистрибуцииR№ 3аудиовизуальногоEPORT (62) 7 февраля, 2013 контента CISCONTENTC:CONTENОбзор новостей рынка производстваTR иREPORT дистрибуцииEPOR аудиовизуального контентаT Media«»«МЕДИ ResourcesА РЕСУРСЫ МManagementЕНЕДЖМЕНТ» «МАЙОР ПОЛИЦИИ» №№9 1(9) №2 31 13 October, января,1 April, 20122011 ReviewОбзор of новостейaudiovisualCЕРИАЛ рынка content производства production and и дистрибуции distribution аудиовизуальногоin the CIS countries контента C «ММЕДИЕДИЕДИААРЕСУРСЫРЕСУРСЫЕСУРСЫММЕНЕДЖМЕНТЕНЕДЖМЕНТЕНЕДЖМЕНТ»Российская кинокомпания «Всемирные Русские Студии» Продюсер№№ 4 3 (62): (62)Юрий 21 7 Сапронов.февраля, 2013 «ВСЕМИРНЫЕ 30 января объявила о начале съемок нового 16-серийного режиссер: Артем Антонов. детектива «Майор полиции». Съемочные работы пройдут сцеНарий: Виктор Ольшанский, РУССКИЕ СТУДИИ» в Санкт-Петербурге, Гатчине, Пушкине, Шлиссельбурге, Михаил Бартенев. Media«»«МЕДИ ResourcesА РЕСУРСЫ МManagementЕНЕДЖМЕНТ» Кронштадте, а также на питерской студии RWS. в ролях№ №131(9): Андрей №213 JuneИльин, января, 1 April, Анна30, 20132011 2012 ТЕМА НОМЕРА СЛОВО РЕДАКЦИИ Банщикова, Дмитрий Блохин, тема номераFOCUS DEARслово COLLEAGUESредакциСинопсис:и Честный и принципиальный майор милиции Ольга Калмыкова, Елизавета Андрей Камышин из провинциального городка Тишинска Кутузова, Юрис Лауциньш, Инна ОСОБЕННОСТИ Уважаемыекому-то коллеги!очень сильно -
The Long Arm of Vladimir Putin: How the Kremlin Uses Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties to Target Its Opposition Abroad
The Long Arm of Vladimir Putin: How the Kremlin Uses Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties to Target its Opposition Abroad Russia Studies Centre Policy Paper No. 5 (2015) Dr Andrew Foxall The Henry Jackson Society June 2015 THE LONG ARM OF VLADIMIR PUTIN Summary Over the past 15 years, there has been – and continues to be – significant interchange between Western and Russian law-enforcement agencies, even in cases where Russia’s requests for legal assistance have been politicaLLy motivated. Though it is the Kremlin’s warfare that garners the West’s attention, its ‘lawfare’ poses just as significant a threat because it undermines the rule of law. One of the chief weapons in Russia’s ‘lawfare’ is the so-called ‘Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty’ (MLAT), a bilateral agreement that defines how countries co-operate on legal matters. TypicaLLy, the Kremlin will fabricate a criminaL case against an individual, and then request, through the MLAT system, the co-operation of Western countries in its attempts to persecute said person. Though Putin’s regime has been mounting, since 2012, an escalating campaign against opposition figures, the Kremlin’s use of ‘lawfare’ is nothing new. Long before then, Russia requested – and received – legal assistance from Western countries on a number of occasions, in its efforts to extradite opposition figures back to Russia. Western countries have complied with Russia’s requests for legal assistance in some of the most brazen and high-profile politicaLLy motivated cases in recent history, incLuding: individuals linked with Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the Yukos affair; Bill Browder and others connecteD to Hermitage Capital Management; and AnDrey Borodin and Bank of Moscow. -
Announcement
Announcement Total 100 articles, created at 2016-08-26 00:02 1 Donald Trump calls Hillary Clinton a 'bigot' at Mississippi rally – video (1.39/2) Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spoke to a rally in Mississippi on Wednesday evening and called political rival Hillary Clinton ‘a bigot’ 2016-08-25 16:02 1KB www.theguardian.com 2 Trump proclaims polls with black and Hispanic voters have gone 'way up' (1.02/2) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told rally-goers in Tampa on Aug. 24 that "the polls with African American folks and Spanish-speaking folks, the Hispanics, Latinos, have gone way up" in the last three weeks. 2016-08-25 18:26 975Bytes www.washingtonpost.com 3 Woman Dies After Falling 40 Feet From Zip Line in Delaware Video (1.02/2) A 59-year-old woman has died after falling approximately 40 feet from a zip line at the Lums Pond State Park in Delaware. 2016-08-25 18:23 1KB abcnews.go.com 4 Turkey warns Syrian Kurds to withdraw east of Euphrates (1.02/2) Turkey threatens further intervention in northern Syria unless Kurdish-led forces withdraw east of the River Euphrates within a week. 2016-08-25 18:03 3KB www.bbc.co.uk 5 WATCH: Black Coffee's son left overwhelmed by lesson on how to take care of a lady Black Coffee's young boy appears to be overwhelmed when his dad explains to him all the things that go into taking care of a lady, saying 2016-08-26 00:01 1KB www.timeslive.co.za 6 Memorial service for Inchanga shooting victims called off to allow for peace talks A joint memorial for two victims of factional fighting in Inchanga was postponed early on Thursday. -
Involvement of Russian Banks and Other Financiers In
INVOLVEMENT OF RUSSIAN BANKS AND OTHER FINANCIERS IN SENSITIVE SECTORS IN RUSSIA A RESEARCH PAPER PREPARED BY PROFUNDO FOR BANK TRACK NOVEMBER 2012 CONTENTS Summary ..........................................................................................................4 Introduction ..........................................................................................................8 Types of finance ..........................................................................................................9 Chapter 1 Financing trends in four Russian sectors..............................................12 1.1 Financing trends in the Russian coal mining sector............................................12 1.1.1 Sector overview .................................................................................................12 1.1.2 Largest companies..............................................................................................14 1.1.3 Groups of financial stakeholders ........................................................................15 1.1.4 Banks .................................................................................................................15 1.1.5 Shareholders......................................................................................................16 1.1.6 Investment banks...............................................................................................18 1.2 Financing trends in the Russian oil & gas sector ................................................19 1.2.1 Sector -
Central Magazine 28/8
Director’s Foreword............... 2 Events............................... 6 Publications.......................... 3 Media................................. 11 Upcoming Publication s ....... 5 Supporting HJS.................. 16 rQueartevrly iew AUTUMN 2015 Democracy • Freedom • Human Rights • Democrac Freedom • Human Rights • Democracy • Freedom Human Rights • Democracy • Freedom • Human R Democracy • Freedom • Human Rights • Democrac Freedom • Human Rights • Democracy • Freedom Human Rights • Democracy • Freedom • Human R Democracy • Freedom • Human Rights • Democrac Freedom • Human Rights • Democracy • Freedom Human Rights • Democracy • Freedom • Human R Democracy • Freedom • Human Rights • Democrac Freedom • Human Rights • Democracy • Freedom Human Rights • Democracy • Freedom • Human R Democracy • Freedom • Human Rights • Democrac rQueartevrly iew Director’s Foreword Welcome to the Autumn edition of The Henry Jackson Society’s Our ever-growing events series has also continued to thrive Quarterly Review. throughout the summer, with events taking place both within Parliament and at HJS headquarters. We have welcomed a Since June this year we have hosted 26 events, released nine whole range of speakers – from international academics and publications and appeared in the media regularly, collectively journalists, to diplomats; including the former Ambassador to serving as a reminder of our central role in the political arena Russia, and Secretaries of State; including the former Secretary both in the UK and internationally. of Defence, -
Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: the Impact on U.S
Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Majority Staff Report TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY II. INTRODUCTION III. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IV. THE VICE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WERE AWARE OF BUT IGNORED CONCERNS RELATING TO HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD. V. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY FALSELY CLAIMED HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD. VI. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS VIEWED MYKOLA ZLOCHEVSKY AS A CORRUPT, “ODIOUS OLIGARCH,” BUT VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS ADVISED NOT TO ACCUSE ZLOCHEVSKY OF CORRUPTION. VII. WHILE HUNTER BIDEN SERVED ON BURISMA’S BOARD, BURISMA’S OWNER, ZLOCHEVSKY, ALLEGEDLY PAID A $7 MILLION BRIBE TO UKRAINE’S PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE TO CLOSE THE CASE. VIII. HUNTER BIDEN: A SECRET SERVICE PROTECTEE WHILE ON BURISMA’S BOARD. IX. OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND A DEMOCRAT LOBBYING FIRM HAD CONSISTENT AND SIGNIFICANT CONTACT WITH FORMER UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL ANDRII TELIZHENKO. X. THE MINORITY FALSELY ACCUSED THE CHAIRMEN OF ENGAGING IN A RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AND USED OTHER TACTICS TO INTERFERE IN THE INVESTIGATION. XI. HUNTER BIDEN’S AND HIS FAMILY’S FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS WITH UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, KAZAKH AND CHINESE NATIONALS RAISE CRIMINAL CONCERNS AND EXTORTION THREATS. XII. CONCLUSION 2 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In late 2013 and into 2014, mass protests erupted in Kyiv, Ukraine, demanding integration into western economies and an end to systemic corruption that had plagued the country. At least 82 people were killed during the protests, which culminated on Feb. -
Export of Corrosion: How Practices from Russia Penetrate And
Export of Corrosion: How Practices from Russia Penetrate and Undermine US and UK Prepared for a panel discussion “Export of Russian Corruption: From Kremlin with Hate” at the annual Convention of The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Boston, November 21-24, 2013 Ilya Zaslavskiy – [email protected] November 16, 2013 Executive summary • Since Cold War US and UK governments chose to oppose Russia only on traditional hardcore criminal issues (arms control, espionage, outright crime, etc.) but neglect highly questionable and ethically debatable practices and appease Kremlin in exchange for nuclear proliferation and select regional cooperation issues (e.g. Iran, Korea, Afghanistan, arguably Syria). • Below is a detailed analytical update on 6 hardcore and 13 highly questionable/debatable layers of export of corrosive practices from Russia based on a thorough overview of data since Putin’s grab of power in 2000. • The main argument of the report is that neglected layers of corrosion, although less harmful at a first glance, are nevertheless extremely dangerous in the long run as they undermine democratic values, institutions and practices in US and UK and can undermine national security by importing Russian practices to the West. • New forms of corrosion export often come without direct support of Russian state but through corporations or powerful individuals connected to Putin’s regime. 1 • US and UK governments, media and opinion-makers should be bolder in filtering and counter- acting penetration of Russian corrosive practices in international organizations, internet, western media, legal and financial system, elections, lobbying, think-tanks, universities, real estate. While the exact terming of this new containment/filtering and its extent requires more research and public discussion, this report tries to synthetize most basic and initial policy suggestions for each layer in one summary table at the end. -
Russia's Network State and Reiderstvo Practices
Ilja Viktorov Russia’s Network State and Reiderstvo Practices: The Roots to Weak Property Rights Protection after the post-Communist Transition Post-Soviet corporate raiding: Introduction Hostile takeovers and company captures have been an everyday reality of the Russian post-Soviet economy. This phenomenon is called reiderstvo in Russian, a term which is derived from the English word “raiding.” A typical hostile takeover is based on the manipulation of weak legal institutions and the use of extralegal practices with the active involvement of courts, private and state security services, and corrupt government officials. Any entre- preneur in the country is a potential victim of groups that organize “raids” against both large and small companies. According to some estimates, about 60,000 cases of reiderstvo took place in Russia each year during the 2000s, and only a fraction of these cases led to legal prosecution.1 This is telling, even though any kind of quantitative evidence on reiderstvo is prob- lematic due to the sensitivity of the issue for influential political and busi- ness insiders.2 Corporate raiding in Russia has its historic roots in the initial process of the privatization of state-owned assets in the 1990s, when the first hostile takeovers were characterized by a high degree of criminal violence. Since that period, however, the methods of raiders have grown much more sophisticated and elaborate. Highly educated lawyers, advocates, accoun- tants, judges, investigators, court enforcement officers, and journalists— rather than common criminals—have been typical participants of a raiding group. A raiding network is created by a particular group which coordi- nates a raiding attack, provides financial support to all participants, and finally appears as the main beneficiary of a hostile takeover (see Figure Stubborn Structures 00 könyv.indb 437 2019.03.01. -
How Britain Let Russia Hide Its Dirty Money
Photograph: Lee Martin/Guardian Design Team The long read How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money Photograph: Lee Martin/Guardian Design Team For decades, politicians have welcomed the super-rich with open arms. Now they’re finally having second thoughts. But is it too late? By Oliver Bullough by Oliver Bullough Published on Fri 25 May 2018 06.00 BST • • • 1,085 1085 I n March, parliament’s foreign affairs committee asked me to come and tell them what to do about dirty Russian cash. As a journalist, I’ve spent much of my career writing about financial corruption in the former Soviet Union, but the invitation came as something of a surprise. After all, ever since I was at school in the 1990s, British politicians have welcomed Russian money to our shores. They have celebrated when oligarchs have bought our football clubs, cheered when they’ve listed their companies on our Stock Exchange. They have gladly accepted their political donations and patronised their charitable foundations. How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money – podcast Read more When journalists and academics pointed out that these murky fortunes could buy influence over our democracy and undermine the rule of law, they were largely dismissed as inconvenient Cassandras warning MPs to beware Russians bearing gifts. But earlier this year, after the poisoning in Salisbury of the former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, those little-heeded prophecies jumped straight into the pages of Hansard. “To those who seek to do us harm, my message is simple: you are not welcome here,” Theresa May told the House of Commons on 14 March, in a speech that blamed Russia for the attack. -
Qatar Set to Launch First Free Zone in 2019
BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Five-star al-Attiyah wins Morocco QCB Governor urges Islamic fi ntech focus rally published in QATAR since 1978 WEDNESDAY Vol. XXXIX No. 10967 October 10, 2018 Safar 1, 1440 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Qatar set to In brief launch fi rst QATAR | Diplomacy ‘Siege was imposed under false pretexts’ free zone HE the Advisory Council Speaker Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid al-Mahmoud stressed that Qatar has been subjected to an unjust siege since June 5, 2017, which was imposed by the neighbouring in 2019 countries under false pretexts and through the use of cyber-crime and By Peter Alagos porting economic diversifi cation by cyber-hacking exploiting modern Business Reporter strengthening GDP and attracting for- cyber-information technology, eign investors to add to the economic aff irming that those who misuse diversifi cation process. cyber-technology must be held wo new free zones in the country He said Qatar is interested in certain accountable everywhere. He was His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met with IOC President Dr Thomas Bach in Buenos Aires yesterday. will be open to local and interna- sectors for its free zones, especially lo- speaking at the third meeting of HE the President of Qatar Olympic Committee, Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad al-Thani, attended the meeting. Ttional investors by 2019, accord- gistics, because they are strategically heads of parliaments of European ing to HE the Minister of State Ahmed located near the country’s air and sea and Asian countries (Eurasia) bin Mohamed al-Sayed, who is also the ports. -
The Real Risks of Chinese Investment: China Hustle 2.0 – Don’T Let This Happen to Your Money
China Hustle 2.0 3.119 CLEARED FOR RELEASE 12/23/2020 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 83) INSIDER REPORT The Real Risks of Chinese Investment: China Hustle 2.0 – Don’t Let This Happen to Your Money We’ve warned about the risk of investments in Chinese shares on multiple occasions here in the Economic War Room®, we’ve talked about the Thrift Savings Plan, we’ve talked about how they’ve been accessing our markets and taking our capital. We’ve had Roger Robinson and Gordon Chang and Frank Gaffney and others including the Committee on the Present Danger, China. Economic War Room patriots were part of stopping the Thrift Savings Plan from investing in China. We were pushing to stop American banks from participating in The Ant Group IPO because we didn’t think there was enough transparency or disclosure of material risk, and we were a part of pushing the Senate in that 100-0 vote to deregister and delist any Chinese shares that wouldn’t produce proper accounting and follow our rules. Unfortunately, they gave China like a long window to do this. To drive home what is still happening to investors in China we brought in an investor who wanted to share his story. We hope that no one else has to go through the loss he experienced trusting the Chinese Investments. Joel Caplan has become an expert on Chinese companies that had been trading on the NASDAQ. Unfortunately, his loss has become a case study for other Americans to learn from. Normally you would think the accounting standards and controls would be required for NASDAQ listings. -
RUSSIA INTELLIGENCE Politics & Government
N°76 - April 24 2008 Published every two weeks / International Edition CONTENTS KREMLIN P. 1-3 Politics & Government c Dmitry Medvedev faces a « Putinian » steamroller KREMLIN c Dmitry Medvedev faces a We would like to believe in the “soft” version of the transition in the Kremlin according to which Dmi- « Putinian » steamroller try Medvedev and Vladimir Putin agree completely and especially on the allocation and geography of the ALERTS power between the President of the Federation and “his” Prime minister. But the truth requires acknow- c 5th generation combat air- ledgement that the ground between the two men is not as pacified as they would like us to believe. From craft : Brasilia enters the race many signs that we have decyphered in this edition, it can be seen that a quiet struggle is underway, that FOCUS it is more the work of “Poutinian” elements of Russian power and that they aim at restraining Dmitry Med- c Medvedev-Putin : who will vedev in a sort of institutional and political collar that he could have trouble liberating himself from, at control the regions ? least in the first months of his presidency. LIBYA c RZhD's bountiful harvest The fact of elevating Vladimir Putin to the head of party that he is not a member of, United Russia, is Russia" the last of the “innovations” from those close to the President to install the future Prime minister in a sta- c Balkans : a second Russian tus of “national leader” and to limit the President in the role of super Foreign affairs minister abandoned wave in energy and metals to internatioal summits and protocol encounters.