Month: November 2007

November 9, 2007

A Quick Concession for the 2007 Weblog Awards

Last night the voting wrapped up for the 2007 Weblog Awards, and perhaps as expected, the miracle did not occur for this blog to cover the considerable gap for victory. The crown for Best European Blog (Non UK) goes to the accomplished folks over ...
November 9, 2007

American and Russian Poll on Nuclear Weapons

Today we received the following press release from WorldPublicOpinion.org which reports on a new poll from the University of Maryland that finds that large majorities of both Russian and American citizens favor drastically cutting back on nuclear ...
November 9, 2007

Tom Nicholls: Brazil makes major oil find

Petrobras’ latest oil find transforms Brazil’s upstream prospects By Tom Nicholls, journalist Brazil’s Petrobras claims to have discovered a new oil province – “comparable to the most important oil provinces in the world”. It says the discovery – ...
November 9, 2007

André Glucksmann Speaks on Human Rights in Russia

On Oct. 25, French philosopher and renowned political commentator André Glucksmann published an article in Le Monde of great importance to us entitled “Sakharov-Khodorkovsky: Same Fight.” Then on Oct. 29, we were pleased to have Mr. Gl...
November 9, 2007

Should Russia Fear Election Monitors?

It’s a pretty good question: why on earth would Russia seek to ban, limit or otherwise obstruct international election monitors if the incumbent party were expected to win a landslide election anyways? Is this just a stubborn demonstration o...
November 9, 2007

Energy (In)Security and the World’s First Demand Shock

(Photo: AFP) Today the FT published their 2007 Energy supplement, which includes a plethora of important information on the energy industry and the geopolitics of security of supply. The newspaper is quite timely with this report, coinciding with ...
November 9, 2007

The Khodorkovsky Letter

SRB has posted a translation of a letter from Mikhail Khodorkovsky which was leaked to Ekho Moskvy, in which he comments on the elections. The story made the news in France and Germany, but in English I haven’t seen anything besides this AFP...
November 9, 2007

RA in the FT: Rolling Over to the Kremlin’s Manipulation

Today Robert Amsterdam has a by-lined article published in the Financial Times about energy security, as part of the Energy 2007 special supplement. Rolling over to Kremlin’s manipulation By Robert Amsterdam Published: November 9 2007 04:36 | Last...
November 9, 2007

Derek Brower: The inconvenient, but necessary, treaty

The Energy Charter Treaty could resolve the impasse between Europe and Russia. So why won’t the Commission endorse it? By Derek Brower, journalist EUROPE’s muddle on energy policy gets worse by the month. After two years of steadily declining rela...
November 9, 2007

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov. 9, 2007

Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with leaders of Russia’s Muslim community in Moscow’s Kremlin November 8, 2007. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/KREMLIN (RUSSIA) Police have seized 14 million copies of the Union of Right Forces’ officially...