From the Financial Times: Mr Miliband’s package is about the minimum the British government could countenance given Moscow’s disregard for the evidence amassed against Mr Lugovoi. In the short term, it is likely to attract nothing save Russian ret...
Gordon Brown’s first meeting as prime minister with Angela Merkel is overshadowed by the showdown with Russia. Moscow shouldn’t underestimate Brown’s desire to prove his new government’s mettle – no one likes to begin...
No one seems to be at all concerned about the security ramifications of Russia pulling out of the conventional arms treaty of 1990s this past weekend, but it is a worrying indication of the country’s precarious stability that such grandiose ...
Meet the new ESPO pipeline, otherwise known as the Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean project, through which Russia has announced it will send upwards of 15 million tonnes per year (with a capacity of 30 tonnes) to China and other markets in As...
Russian Opposition Promises to Be Active by Autumn by Victor Andreyev [Editor’s note: we pleased to offer this exclusive eyewitness report from the Other Russia summit held last week in Moscow. Special thanks to Victor Andreyev, a journalist...
Now serving cassoulet Way back in December of last year, we blogged about a Wall Street Journal article which examined CEO of Total Christophe de Margerie’s bribery investigations and his “non-‘Anglo-Saxon'” approach to doi...
A while back during Vladimir Putin’s visit with George Bush at the family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, I recall reading an odd story on Siberian Light about an alleged member of the Russian president’s entourage trying to pass a count...
New surveys show that countries with high GDP growth like China, India and Russia also show high levels of optimism – however there is a huge gap between the elites and the general population. In Russia, 43% of elites say they “are sat...
Well, as we discussed on this blog a few days ago, Gazprom has announced its selection of the first partner for the development of the Shtokman natural gas field in the Barents Sea: Total of France. The French company will take on a 25% stake in t...
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the U.S. State Department has opened up an invitation for civil society organizations in Russia to apply for up to $4 million in grants to promote “programs that will (1) bolster media freed...
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