Month: August 2008

August 11, 2008

War Batters Russian Markets

If investors were somehow not scared off by TNK-BP, Mechel, and the William Browder/HSBC corporate identity fraud lawsuit, then Russia’s full scale invasion of a neighboring sovereign nation should be sufficient proof of a devastatingly high...
August 11, 2008

Pressure on Russia’s Tandem-ocracy

From the Wall Street Journal: Not least among the geopolitical realities coming to the surface at the moment is that of just who’s top dog in the Kremlin. While it’s widely thought Mr. Putin’s power trumps that of Russian Preside...
August 11, 2008

Energy Blast – Aug 11, 2008

The Georgian conflict has raised the oil price by sparking fears of disrupted supply. BP is “on alert” after Russian forces targeted the BP-operated Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in Tbilisi, but left “no visible damage”. BP’s production is said to ...
August 11, 2008

Today in Russian Business – Aug 11, 2008

The Russian stock market has hit a two-year low on the back of conflict in Georgia. “Some saw the slide toward war as a good excuse to dump Russian risk altogether.” Georgia has been praised by foreign investors, “who contrasted its efforts to rea...
August 11, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 11, 2008

TODAY: Russia attacks central Georgia after calls for a ceasefire; US condemns situation; Cuba backs Russia; Georgia being punished for Western aspirations?; media reports show discrepancies; ballerinas and Lake Baikal. The embracing of two female...
August 10, 2008

Carl Bilt on Russia’s Intervention in Georgia

Quentin Peel’s new column in the Financial Times highlights a very important point made by Carl Bilt, the foreign minister of Sweden: But what can Georgia’s friends and allies do about it? Mr Putin is calling their bluff. George W. Bush, the...