From a letter sent to the Financial Times by Sacha Kumaria, a Senior Adviser at Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies: However, the renationalisation of energy assets in countries such as Russia and Venezuela, and long-standing prohibitions on forei...
In the next issue of Forbes, Daniel Fisher has a good profile of ENI’s Paolo Scaroni and his high-stakes bet on Russia (including a quote from RA). Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni (L) and Gazprom Vice-President Alexander Medvedev. Photo: Reuters From ...
Today the Scotsman is running an interesting book review / interview with Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, which illuminates an important point about identity and reconciliation of past political ideology in Russia. Whether the West is aware of it...
After agreeing to withdraw support for ten years of Yukos audits, how is PwC rewarded? Moscow Times: Russian court hands victory to PricewaterhouseCoopers in tax evasion case A Russian appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new round of hearings into ...
From an interesting article by Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post about Anatoly Karachinsky and Arkady Volozh, Russia’s two most successful technology entrepreneurs: But several factors conspired to create a slow start for the Russian ...
A new study of satellite images by the NOAA shows that in 2006 Russia surpassed Nigeria to become the world’s most prolific gas flarer. “Flaring” is a process by which unusable or excess natural gas is released by a pressure valv...
A quote by Robert Amsterdam taken from this blog appeared in the Guardian today in regards to always-lively Hungarian-Austrian energy politics. Guardian: The Austro-Hungarian empire cannot be revived While Sarko is chasing around France and, now, ...
Into the Pipe or Down the Drain? Some questions about the promised transparency By Grigory Pasko, journalist [editor’s note – this is Pasko’s final installment of the Nord Stream series – an index of all the articles can be...
Today I came across this 45-minute documentary of the Dissenter’s March in St. Petersburg from March, 2007. Unfortunately the translations are frequently unintelligible, but the footage is still interesting.
An article published in Prospect magazine’s July issue. Click here to download the full PDF of the article. After Russia cut supplies to Ukraine in 2006, the EU decided it needed to reduce its dependence on Russian gas. But since then, a ser...
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