A proposal to import Central Asian oil into eastern Europe and break the region’s dependence on Russian crude faces the same old problems Derek Brower, journalist FOR politicians in Poland and the Baltics, it seems like a wonderful idea. If Russia...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Turkmenistan’s President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev (R-L) p...
Tomorrow at 2:00 PM (EST), the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology is holding a hearing on the Yukos affair with my colleague Tim Osborne, Anders Åslund and others. You can tun...
This video from the Wall Street Journal accompanies the much-discussed article “As Burgers Boom in Russia, McDonald’s Touts Discipline.” As this blog has reported in the past, there remain tremendous business opportunities in Rus...
Press freedom watchdog Reporters without Borders has published its 2007 Worldwide Press Freedom Index, which ranked Russia at 144, just below Yemen and Afghanistan and above Tunisia and Egypt. Poland and Bulgaria were among the worst performers in...
Hats off in congratulations to the bureaucrats sitting atop Rosneft, which just reported strong quarterly sales results of $10.8 billion – up from $8.6 billion from the same period in 2006, thanks to the company’s “managerial exc...
Back on Sept. 20, a deadly firefight broke out in the mountainous breakaway region of Abkhazia – the separatist “frozen conflict” area where Georgia and Russia play an endless game of tug-of-war. When the smoke cleared, there wer...
In today’s column, Anne Applebaum spends some time in the Skype offices of Tallinn, Estonia to contemplate the difficult dynamic of historical reckoning, sovereignty, and economic growth among Russia’s former satellite states: One Esto...
This week a new study was published by the talented Dr. Ariel Cohen and Viacheslav Evseev about the growing importance of the Russian private sector’s role in sustaining economic ties with the United States (given that political relations ar...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin review an honor guard, during an official welcoming ceremony for Putin, who arrived to attend the Caspian Sea leaders summit in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007. ...
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