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Four months after The Hague ordered Russia to pay $50bn to the shareholders of former oil and gas giant, Yukos for indirectly expropriating the company, the likelihood of its compliance to the ruling and paying the fine continues to remain uncertain. The recent announcement that...

There’s a depressing familiarity about the tensions between Russia and the West at the moment. While it’s not yet up there with the very real fears that I had growing up in the seventies and eighties that bombs could start falling at any moment, I must admit to a...

The House of Commons Defence Committee released a report yesterday underlining disquiet within Nato about its ability to respond to Russian aggression should it move against a member state. The report seems to back the statements made by General Sir Richard Shirreff in July to...

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for Russian business after the sanctions imposed by The European Union last Friday, Russian business was dealt another fierce blow today with the groundbreaking  $50 billion ruling against The Russian federation for expropriating...

As the tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague draws to a close a ruling is expected at some point this week, former partners have expressed confidence the court will rule in their favour. The claim was launched in 2005 by shareholders of GML which was the...

The word ‘outrage’ has often felt diluted in recent years. There has been a laziness in its use in tabloid headlines to describe boorish behaviour by celebrities or mildly inconvenient politically driven decisions, but the loss of Malaysian Airways Flight MH17 in the...