First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov will become the next chairman of Gazprom. The company is taking a major step into the North American market, having agreed to become a partner in the Rabaska liquefied natural gas terminal in Quebec. Alexe...
The 13th Economic Forum opens in Yekaterinburg today, focusing on aspects of regional investment policy. Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov is planning to sell silver miner Polymetal. New York apples are being exported to Russia for the first ti...
TODAY: Putin creates inner cabinet; public calls for balanced foreign policy; police prepare for British football fans amid fears of violence; Medvedev to fund nuclear forces; Georgia and Russia in talks. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the gov...
In Vladivostok they have carried out a search in the apartment of PrimorskyKray governor Sergey Darkin By Grigory Pasko, journalist The new configuration of power in Russia has demanded new personnel victims. I, like the majority of Russians, coul...
Earlier this week, Ariel Cohen of Heritage had a controversial opinion article run in the New York Post, which despite its aggressive house rhetoric, makes a pretty strong point: Russian leaders, more anti-American today than ever, have written th...
I found this article about Canadian police psychologist Mike Webster, who has compared the RCMP (the Mounties) to Putin’s Russia, very interesting. Although having been arrested by the political police in Moscow at one point, I would say tha...
Pierre Noël of the EPRG (Cambridge University) and the European Council on Foreign Relations has an opinion column in the Financial Times today calling on Europe to create a single market for natural gas: The idea that Europe lacks, or will soon l...
This week President Dmitry Medvedev delivered a speech to senior officers of the FSB, presenting the new chief Aleksandr Vasilyevich Bortnikov, while thanking Nikolai Patrushev for his years of (controversial) service. Among other comments, Medved...
Lately it seems unclear whether or not all of BP’s problems with its Russian subsidiary TNK-BP, which have included arrests, office raids, and visa problems, are related to a campaign from the government to take over a majority stake –...
The government has awarded Gazprom the rights to develop nine northern gas deposits without a tender. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has urged the government to formulate a number of tax preferences for oil producers, including the reduction of min...
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