Month: November 2007

November 30, 2007

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov. 30, 2007

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a nationwide TV broadcast in Moscow November 29, 2007. Putin signed a law on Friday suspending Russian participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, the Kremlin said. (REUTERS/RIA-N...
November 29, 2007

The Nashi Threat

Here’s an interesting bit of exclusive news: a trusted colleague of mine has leaked to me copies of a series of worrying placards being printed right now in Moscow by the Nashi for distribution on Sunday following (or during) the successful ...
November 29, 2007

Merkel Takes a Principled Stand on Foreign Policy

Chancellor Angela Merkel is one of the more remarkable leaders in Europe today for her demonstrated willingness to stand by principles in foreign policy. Surrounded by cowardice in the SPD, who lambaste her for having invited the Dalai Lama to Ger...
November 29, 2007

Faces of the Opposition: Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Part I

Below is the first installment of journalist Grigory Pasko’s series of online video interviews with various leaders of the Russian opposition featured on our YouTube channel. Here he speaks with the impressive Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the...
November 29, 2007

Announcing the Launch of Robert Amsterdam TV

We’ve been working hard here at the blog to always bring our readers new and interesting material on Russian and European business and politics, including a foray into a multi-platform format with diverse video and audio offering. Perhaps so...
November 29, 2007

Tom Nicholls: Libya steps on the gas

Libya continues to attract investment to its upstream sector despite tougher terms By Tom Nicholls The pace of upstream licensing in Libya is picking up: this month, Tripoli has agreed new deals with US companies Exxon Mobil and Occidental Petrole...
November 29, 2007

Video: The Putin System

Below is a trailer for the somewhat dated TV documentary “The Putin System,” including interviews with former spy Oleg Gordievsky, Edmond Pope, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, among others.
November 29, 2007

Grigory Pasko: Eye on Sochi, Part V

[Also see Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV of this series] Part V: Special Operation «Olympiad» By Grigory Pasko, journalist The Olympic state corporation Just one week after Sochi was announced the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympiad, price...
November 29, 2007

Sloganeering: “There is such a party!”

Reuters compiles all of slogans from parties running in Sunday’s parliamentary (s)elections. My favorite is from the Communists, who wish to remind you of their existence (which is strange being that they are the #2 party). UNITED RUSSIA Lea...