Once in a while the Russian president will say something that no rational-minded person would disagree with: “A private company motivated to be effective will often be better manager than a government official who doesn’t always have an idea...
What to make of Sergei Ivanov’s speech at the Munich security conference? Some think that he was playing “good cop” to Putin’s “bad cop” – striking a conciliatory and reasonable tone on Kosovo discussions ...
I’ve seen that many visitors today have made their way over from the Wall Street Journal site via my YouTube channel of the Lev Ponomarev video – for those of you who didn’t, I highly recommend you see the Bret Stephens article a...
Claudia Cattaneo of the Financial Post has a great column on the Petro-Canada and Gazprom fiasco: Marrying Gazprom like Russian roulette Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post The best deal Petro-Canada will make this year is one it didn’t do R...
The news yesterday was that Russia would cancel Iraq’s $12bn debt “without resurrecting earlier demands of preferential access to Iraqi oil fields in exchange”. The news today is that Russia is “counting on” Iraqi joint projects, and is to begin i...
VTB, Russia’s second-largest bank, is completing its acquisition of a 50% stake in an unconfirmed commercial bank in Azerbaijan. Russia’s Alrosa has proven rough diamond reserves worth $109.3 billion. Belgian financial group KBC says i...
TODAY: Kremlin shuts down St Petersburg University for “fire safety violations”, sparking protests and accusations; draft proposals put forward for internet controls. Relations with Ukraine, Jordan and India are current priorities. Medvedev loves ...
A columnist at the Moscow Times is not amused by Dmitry Medvedev’s “rule of law” speech, which criticized the lack of respect for copyright laws by Russian citizens who buy pirated DVDs and CDs while at the same time Vasily Alexa...
This one comes from BBJ: “On one track, OMV seeks the support of EU institutions and legal mechanisms to force a takeover of Hungary’s private-owned MOL energy company, which has consistently bested OMV in the regional market competition. On...
Is it time to start a 24/7 Nabucco watch? The once-doomed natural gas pipeline project, designed to bring supply from the Caspian region directly to Europe, has recently gotten some positive nudges in the right direction – but the drama is f...
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