Last March we reported on an boulevard in Paris that “unofficially” dedicated to the memory of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya (right near the Russian embassy), but now the European Parliament has officially paid its respects by de...
Rosneft‘s profits jumped an overwhelming 80% following its purchase of Yukos assets. Gazprom is to attend talks with Ukraine’s high-level energy delegation as Ukraine’s new government seeks to revise the terms of agreements with ...
Russia’s display at Berlin’s International Green Week focuses on advanced technologies and new research and development in the agrarian sector. Russian-Chinese trade grew 44.3% year-on-year in 2007 to a record $48.16 billion. Shareholders of OOO L...
TODAY: British Council shuts two of its offices indefinitely and the director of its St Petersburg office is detained. Medvedev a liberal? Putin heads to Bulgaria to cement energy pipeline deals. Yukos executive accuses jailers of blackmail. Russi...
BBC News has reported that with many of France’s major media outlets owned by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s close friends, publicly criticizing Sarkozy is not easy. Fears have arisen that the freedom of the French press is now being stifled. L...
Craig Pirrong has another great article today about Gazprom’s move to take over Serbia’s state energy monopoly, NIS. The good professor writes the following: “To make the deal look a little less like an abject surrender, Gazprom ...
Nord Stream på Svenska (notes from Stockholm) By Grigory Pasko, journalist The Russian tsar Peter the Great, as he hewed out his “Window on Europe” through the putrid marshes of St. Petersburg, was thinking: “from here we shall threaten the Swede”...
There are certain parties, Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schröder among them, who would like to see the trans-Atlantic alliance between the United States and the European Union dismantled and shattered. Unfortunately, it looks like the U.S. Secretary...
I thought after yesterday’s post about the British Council dispute, I could safely leave the issue alone (our first post on the topic dates back to June 14, 2007). But then again, I didn’t expect the Russians to start making arrests. T...
Dr. Andreas Umland, one of those guys who manages to inspire vitriol as both an apologist and a russophobe, and a column running in the National Interest about anti-Americanism in Russia and how a new Cold War could come about. We happen to disagr...
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