From the Asia Times Online: Without question, the landscape of diplomatic battles has been impacted deeply by the rise of petro-states in the context of ballooning oil prices. The question now arises whether this is just another bubble that will b...
Silovik-in-Chief Igor Sechin appears to be expanding his passport stamp collection with another series of foreign state visits – this time to China – to announce agreements to deepen energy cooperation and establish frameworks to incre...
We only partially agree with this Financial Times piece, which explains why Russia’s formation of an OPEC-like natural gas cartel with Iran and Qatar has some serious weaknesses which will in some ways prevent its ability to coordinate produ...
Had there not been a massive financial crisis crippling the U.S. economy over the past two months and seemingly dominating the public’s short attention span for news, this very well could have been the foreign policy election of the post-Col...
The importance of the Kremlin-controlled piggy bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) is rising during this financial crisis, as the group becomes the government’s critical instrument in its efforts to re-nationalize a large slice of the economy from th...
OPEC has received international criticism for cutting output in an attempt to prevent the oil price from crashing. Meanwhile the possibility of a ‘Gopec’ consisting of Russia, Iran and Qatar, has some observers worried. Russia and China are planni...
Oleg Deripaska’s Strikeforce Mining and Resources must postpone its IPO due to poor market conditions, and Deripaska’s Aughinish Alumina refinery is facing legal action ‘that puts his empire in jeopardy’. Will the oligarchs survive the financial c...
TODAY: Lavrov unhappy with US sanctions on arms; EU to restructure Russian relations; Kremlin keeping tags on bloggers?; Lukhkov accused of influencing foreign policy under Vladimir Putin; UK’s Peter Mandelson under scrutiny for ties with Oleg Der...
Here’s an excerpt from the latest Richard Lourie column in the Moscow Times: It is now in Russia’s interest to release former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky from prison. That wasn’t always the case. Early on, the benefits outweig...
Five-year plan in prison On 25 October of the year 2003 Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. On 27 October of the year 2005 the press-center of ...
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