A colleague pointed me toward this post from the Economist from Jan. 31st: SOVIET propagandists during the cold war were trained in a tactic that their western interlocutors nicknamed “whataboutism”. Any criticism of the Soviet Union (Afghanistan,...
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov and Economic Development and Trade Minister Elvira Nabiullina have been approved as candidates for a new Gazprom board of directors. Kazakhstan has raised its price for shipping gas to Gazprom by 27%. Rosneft a...
United Company RusAl will gain a foothold in China’s lucrative aluminum market, after it was reported it would partner with China Power Investment in building a 500,000-ton smelter in western China and a bauxite and alumina complex in Guinea. Arta...
TODAY: Medvedev outlines his vision for Russia. Vasily Aleksanyan goes on trial, is “nearly blind”. Moscow lawyer applies for political asylum in the US. Putin is in Dagestan, Zubkov is in Armenia. Presidential candidate and Communist Party leader...
Remember those bombastic military spectacles the Soviets used to hold on Red Square several times a year to strike fear into every bourgeois heart? Well, they’re back, and they’re bigger and better than ever. As the below article (in o...
Ed Lucas, who recently authored the book “The New Cold War” (see the review by Latvian blogger Peteris Cedrins), has a powerful new piece running in the Times of London calling upon Europe to get firm with Russia on critical issues. Wi...
They say that for about a $100,000 donation to his foundation, you can get former U.S. President Bill Clinton to show up practically anywhere for a speaking engagement. And apparently for $31.3 million, you can even get him to hop on a plane with ...
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov was probably worried about losing his heavyweight title as champion of the soundbite in Russian politics. So this weekend he brought the thunder, and declared that the upcoming elections would be illegitimat...
It’s no secret that Russia has been agressively targeting Hungary and Bulgaria in its pipeline strategy – promising powerful roles as gas distribution hubs for the region (quite similarly to what Serbia was promised allegedly in exchan...
We’ve recently blogged about the boost given to the Nabucco pipeline project from the enlistment of RWE, as well as the potential concerns over Turkmenistan’s reliability as a supplier (the recent cut-off of supply to Iran caused a dom...
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