Tag Archives: TNK-BP

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 25, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: February 25, 2013

TODAY: Udaltsov pays fine in coins; Mitvol home searched; Lomakin leaves United Russia; public smoking ban signed by Putin; Kerry to meet Lavrov; Shatto adoption row continues; Ukraine will not pay Gazprom fine; Rosneft to complete TNK-BP deal early; Rogozin on arms procurement; Chelyabinsk meteor fever. Supporters of opposition activist Sergei Udaltsov, who is currently [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 17, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: December 17, 2012

TODAY: Protestors stage unsanctioned rally one year on from mass protest; leaders detained; new case against Navalny; wages for investigators hiked. Worrying figures on media murders; duma gives green light to Magnitsky Act response; Moscow downplays change on Syria stance; Russia-Brazil helicopter deal; smoking ban approved. Police have detained around 40 people, as well as [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – December 13, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: December 13, 2012

TODAY: Putin lambasts foreign interference in state of the nation address; vows to tackle elite’s offshore holdings; affirms need for traditional values. NGOs under pressure; Moscow City Hall says no to opposition rally; controversial Politkovskaya plea bargain upheld; US attacks US adoption failings. Renault takes control of Avtovaz.  In his state of the nation address, [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 5, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: December 5, 2012

TODAY: Opposition Coordination Council seeks a purpose; one year anniversary of first wave of mass Moscow protests; Navalny investigator dismissed; Abramovich rumoured to have acted for the Kremlin on Norilsk Nickel; Lavrov says Russia will accept NATO missiles on Turkey-Syria border; TNK-BP $6 billion investment; Kremlin sports injuries. The Opposition Coordination Council, the opposition’s alternative [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 22, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: November 22, 2012

TODAY: NGOs targeted; Razvozzhayev charged with 15-year-old robbery; Putin’s WTO pessimism; wind farm plans; Shoigu in China; Rushydro to be recapitalised; OMV reconsiders relationship with Gazprom; Khodorkovsky criticises Dudley; YouTube removed from web blacklist. At least four non-governmental organisations were harassed with graffiti and pickets after the new law, under which foreign-funded NGOs must register [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 21, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: November 21, 2012

TODAY: Moscow refuses repression rally; Samutsevich may request former lawyers to be stripped of licenses; one-third of Russians cannot name Kirill; Mochalov starts anti-corruption newspaper, beauty queen gives anti-corruption speech; Gazprom monopoly could be broken; retail slump. Moscow refused to grant permission for an opposition rally against ‘political repression’ on the grounds that there is [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 14, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: November 14, 2012

TODAY: Media watchdog may backtrack on blocked websites; Russian Railways fined for manipulating market; Medvedev denies Putin’s ill health, says he backs current development; Daghestani lawyer wins rights prize; BP and AAR end litigations; Gazprom loses out on supply deal; physicist spy sentence cut. The Mass Media Inspection Service acknowledged that its mechanism for blocking [...]

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FT on Rosneft

By Citizen M | Published: November 10, 2012

Neil Buckley in the FT has written some sharp analysis this week on the recent $55 billion deal that saw both of the interests previously controlling TNK-BP falling under the control of Rosneft and its overlord, the Kremlin.  The move is dubious on a number of counts, says Buckley.  Igor Sechin’s lack of direct industry [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 2, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: November 2, 2012

TODAY: Khodorkovsky’s partner accorded early release; Internet blacklist comes into effect; some relief for Gudkov; Young Guard take on mormons. Rosneft profits boom; Novatek takes a beating; Medvedev outlines Asia-Pacific plans As of yesterday, a controversial new law blacklisting ‘extremist’ material on the Internet came into effect, raising fears about a potential crackdown on freedom of speech. [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Oct 31, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: October 31, 2012

TODAY: Treason law passed; Stalin’s terror remembered; opposition hold rally for modern day victims of repression; Pozner seconds criticisms of the treatment of Leonid Razvozzhayev. Russian orthodox monastery faces unseemly allegations; Altimo takes control of Vimpelcom; TNK-BP profits soar; Sochi compensation  The Federation Council has passed a controversial new bill that would redefine high treason [...]

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