Russia’s fast-growing steel pipe industry “is in danger of overheating” as the country’s biggest producers build more capacity than required to meet demand for oil and gas pipelines. Miner and steel maker Severstal will invest $140 mil...
TODAY: Algeria accuses Russia of trying to sell it “substandard” aircraft; Russian Nationalists oppose Medvedev; further harsh words traded over Kosovo; UK press speculates over Russia’s past and future. One UK paper today debates the future of Ru...
Remember Oleg Shvartsman? The dimunitive, shiny-pated venture capitalist who blew the doors off the Kremlin by dropping the “velvet reprivatization” bomb in a Kommersant interview? It appears business has gone south for him and Finansg...
[see Part 1 of this series here] Déja-vu in Brussels – Part 2 Grigory Pasko, journalist By the way… On 11 February 2008, the press secretary of Gazprom management board chairman Alexey Miller, Sergey Kupriyanov, said on the air on the radio ...
Right now as I am writing this, Nymex crude oil has just dropped back down $99.94 a barrel after briefly surpassing $100. Many analysts are pointing toward several contributing factors behind today’s commodity rally, including a refinery out...
As long as we’ve got some other Arctic news today, there’s also an interesting op/ed in Ontario’s Peterborough Examiner about the “acute embarrassment” of how far behind the United States is in developing a policy for...
The New York Times has a very interesting article today about a retired U.S. Navy officer, Alfred S. McLaren, who claims that the Russians stole his idea and plan for a polar dive under the Arctic ice cap, which of course resulted in the polemical...
Many newspapers picked up on Dmitri Medvedev’s comments regarding the British Council spat from a long interview with Itogi the other day. Now JRL has offered some translated excerpts from the report with Russia’s next president. Itogi...
More news on an extremely complicated situation from Eurasia Daily Monitor: Those concerned about Russian exploitation of a Kosova “precedent” overlooked the fact that Moscow remains more than content to exploit the existing, “frozen” situation in...
A “clear majority” of west Europeans regard Russia as an unreliable energy supplier but remain resistant to paying more for alternative supplies from renewable energy sources. Russia’s largest crude producer Rosneft will spend ar...
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