John Browne was due to leave BP anyway. But his premature exit could still herald more bad news for the company By Derek Brower, journalist IN THE end, it wasn’t the fatal fire at the Texas City refinery in 2005 that did for Lord Browne, BP’s outg...
Here’s a quick pop quiz: Russia may not be a reliable energy partner for Europe because… A) state control over Gazprom and Rosneft guides decisions toward political, not commercial interests, as demonstrated by recent supply cut offs, ...
UPI today reported that China and Russia head a list of 12 U.S. trading partners on a priority watch list of violators of intellectual property rights. “Innovation is the lifeblood of a dynamic economy here in the United States, and around t...
For our second installment of Zek Week, we are featuring an extended statement from Lev Ponomarev last year on the resignation of Russia’s prisons czar Yuri Kalinin and how his administration allowed for the establishment of so-called “...
The Times has an interesting story today on Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, the American cardiologist that Boris Yeltsin called in for a consultation, who made the decision that the Russian president could indeed survive a by-pass operation. His Russian d...
The diplomatic hyperbole coming out of Russia over the past few months is beginning to produce the opposite effect than was intended by Moscow. Instead of dividing Europe and driving a wedge between the United States and the EU, it seems that the ...
Tanya Lokshina, who heads up the Russian human rights think tank Demos, has an important piece on the new Russian dissidents on Open Democracy. She writes about the Soviet dissenter Boris Shragin, who once wrote that a small group of protestors ha...
Most of the attention given to the Sakhalin heist, the event which brought the full weight of the environmental regulatory agency of the Russian state to bear upon foreign investors to exact concessions for state-held firms, concentrated on the Kr...
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