Everybody who is anybody is spending today at the 2007 World Energy Congress in Rome, including Alexander Medvedev of Gazprom. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines, he talked about all the power generating assets that his company was looking for...
At the beginning of November, President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded a Hero of Russia medal to the American-born spy George Koval, who was the only KGB man to infiltrate the Manhattan project. Koval, who worked under the codename “Del...
Today a column I wrote is featured in the Moscow Times: Monday, November 12, 2007. Issue 3783. Page 10. The Basmanny Court of Human Rights By Grigory Pasko Not long ago, when he was in Portugal at the EU-Russia summit, President Vladimir Putin ann...
Bloggers Alfred and John Donovan of royaldutchshellplc.com have unearthed some pretty interesting sounding “secret minutes” from a Sept. 2001 meeting of the company’s Committee of Managing Directors (CMD). The documents leaked sh...
Roger Cornish, the Managing Director of Interconnector UK Ltd, a company which controls the pipeline supplying the United Kingdom with 25% of its natural gas, writes a letter to the FT to remind readers that Gazprom has already been a holder of Br...
Young people pretend to worship a giant election poster of the main pro-Kremlin party United Russia during their one minute-long flash mobbing event just outside the Moscow Kremlin, on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007. The poster reads: ‘Moscow votes f...
Seek not a repentant executioner – there is no such thing By Grigory Pasko, journalist Russia. The late 1600s. A gloomy, overcast morning. Standing next to the bloody scaffold is an executioner holding an axe in his right hand, bitterly wailing: “...
Not since the lead up to the Iraq War when Donald Rumsfeld divided “old” and “new” Europe like a sledgehammer, has the EU faced a more divisive challenge than that of Russia. Such is the point of departure for a very valuable new report published ...
Vladimir Pribylovsky tells RFE/RF that the two murders by poisoning Konstantin Druzenko and Sergei Lomako are part of the spy wars between Viktor Cherkesov and Igor Sechin: “This is connected. … I have few doubts that this happened in ...
How much would it be worth to you? One U.S. couple dropped $160,000 for a dinner of “cabbage, herring and vodka” with the former Soviet leader. The charity money will go towards to children’s hospitals in Moscow.
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