An impressive and powerful column from Tim Osborne of GML in the Moscow Times: How to Steal Legally By Tim Osborne Nothing seems to dampen the authorities’ enthusiasm to wipe out any trace of Yukos, which at one point was the country’s...
The Alliance for Liberals and Democrats for Europe, led by MEP Graham Watson, have unveiled a large countdown calendar board today displaying the number of days Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been held in prison, and the number of days until the Russian...
Here is an interesting tidbit from an energy article: The former Bulgarian Prime Minister Ivan Kostov is arguing that the Moscow is pushing to stalemate the EU on Kosovo not out of concern over separatist precedent, but because they benefit from c...
To my knowledge, vast stretches of Siberia are actually quite mountainous, but I won’t dither with another man’s metaphors. Energy Tribune reports on Russia’s stagnating oil production after the jump.
Here is a letter to the editor of the FT by energy expert Jonathan Stern: Important new Russian gas fields Sir, Regular readers of the Financial Times have no expectation that your leader page will ever say anything positive about Russia but, what...
From a Reuters story on Putin’s last official address: But there was no whiff of attraction when it came to a question about U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and her comment that former KGB officers can’t have souls. “A ...
RosUkrEnergo, the murky gas-trading vehicle half-owned by Gazprom, will continue to handle sales from Russia to Ukraine until a replacement, to be joint owned by Gazprom and Naftogaz, can be set up. First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said...
British banking giant Barclays, “whose investment-banking arm left Russia in 1999 nursing $250 million in losses,” could be poised to acquire small-size lender Expobank. President Vladimir Putin, at his last news conference as President, praised t...
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