Manana Aslamazyan does not cast a very threatening image. The Russian civil society organizer is intelligently calm, soft-spoken, and bears the distinctive eyewear of a schoolteacher, not your prototype of a dangerous social agitator. Perhaps for ...
Rosneft and Gazprom have agreed on splitting offshore deposits, limiting foreign and private access. President Dmitry Medvedev officially left Gazprom’s board of directors this week, praising “our company’s” achievements. The company has inc...
The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs says that the country needs new legislation if it is to become a leading producer of biofuels, as “they are currently taxed the same as vodka.” Polyus Gold said that Britain’s financial w...
TODAY: Amnesty International appeals to Medvedev for a “sea-change”; NGO head smuggling case overturned, Prosecutor General promises to remedy the thousands of wrongful charges made each year; McCain vows to work more closely with Russia; Moscow c...
Turns out that lefty activists dislike the new breed of state-owned energy firms just as much as the ancien regime of international oil companies. Joshua Kurlantzick, who has written some good stuff in the past, has a new one in Mother Jones entit...
It’s a big day in energy news for Russia, though understandably most reports are concentrating on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to use his new “Presidium” cabinet to push through with massive oil tax cuts in the order of $4 bill...
Heroes of a mediocre time By Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. A joke: The Russians have a saying – Какая держава – такие и победы. Which translates roughly as “What kin...
Here’s a political cartoon by artist Alexey Merinov, with caption reading “You wanted a light at the end of the tunnel? You got it!” That says a lot about hope and disappointment in Russia today.
In a column titled “Petro Populist Myopia,” Diane Francis of the Financial Post makes a good point about who should really receive the blame for the runaway prices increases of oil: Prices are soaring, in part, because oil is denominat...
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