There’s an excellent column by Gideon Rachman coming out in tomorrow’s Financial Times comparing the “Illiberal Capitalist” models of Russia and China: But for all these differences, there are also increasingly strong simil...
Well, this is interesting, no? From Kommersant: French President Nicolas Sarkozy, when asked at a press conference about the fact that the OSCE declared the parliamentary elections in Russia undemocratic, stated that it was “completely ridiculous”...
Following yesterday’s news that the Baltic pipeline project (Nord Stream) is expected to go over budget by 50-100%, some bloggers are catching on to the complicated political challenge posed by the German-Russian alliance. This comes from Ci...
It’s hard to say who pines more for the good old days of great power intrigue and cloak and dagger espionage – the British, who knighted the spy Oleg Gordievsky, or the Russians, who posthumously awarded nuclear spy and American turnco...
TODAY: Russian relations with EU could improve in wake of Slovenian presidency; Brazil meets with Russia over meat exports; Georgia leader wants to mend relations; Russia and Angola to combat drug trafficking; Russian space research is booming, sa...
In a modification of previous rules, foreign companies are to be permitted to participate in auctions on strategic Russian natural resource fields, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources. Poland is pushing for talks with Germany and Russia...
Despite continued insistence that the British Council will not shut down its cultural offices and the subsequent risk of worsening relations with Russia, the UK remains “the largest foreign investor in Russia”. Tokyo’s Hitachi Construction, which ...
Fresh from hardcore postings in Baghdad and Beirut, the Los Angeles Times sends a new reporter to Moscow. Megan K. Stack delivers some first impressions of the crushing misery of income inequality as experienced in Moscow’s metro. Although w...
It appears that the controversial Nord Stream pipeline project, which aims to bring natural gas direct from Russia to Germany, is already hitting some cost overruns topping the estimated budget of $5 billion. Just how much more the project will co...
Here’s an interesting comment by blogger Tim Newman that I found over at SRB, which in a way backs up Robert Amsterdam’s arguments about “premature contractualization” with regard to the Gazprom-Nigeria deal rumors… &...
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