Bloomberg columnist Michael R. Sesit has written a piece today strongly criticizing Russia for “acting more and more like a renegade economic power and bully”, saying that its questionable commitment to free markets puts the rightfulness of its G8...
TNK-BP plans to relocate its head office in downtown Moscow to a business park on the outskirts of the city. Mechel, struggling to recover from criticism by Vladimir Putin, has announced that it will postpone its share offering indefinitely. Has t...
Russia’s international reserves have reached $600 billion. RusAl is opposing the appointment of Federal Tourism Agency chief Vladimir Strzhalkovsky to the board of Norilsk Nickel. The company said that Strzhalkovsky, a longtime ally of Prime Minis...
TODAY: Crumbling infrastructure stalling development; US and Russia are stuck in the Cold War past; renegade Russia does not deserve G8 membership; South Ossetia “on the brink of war”; authorities raid National Bolshevik activist’s house; bomb at ...
Ever wondered where the more conservative factions of the Kremlin get their ideas from? The Eurasianists, a Russian political movement developed in the 1920s, considered Russia to be closer to the Asian than to the European category, and opposed t...
Oil is currently hovering at around $119 a barrel amid concerns over low US demand. “The fall in oil prices, combined with lower production, could soften the aggressive stance of Russia towards the West.” ExxonMobil’s Sakhalin-1 project is a...
There are doubts that a project organized by Vladimir Putin during his presidency will be completed in time. Failure to complete the plan for a conference center to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit would “jeopardize the government...
TODAY: New Arctic map to aid territorial disputes; torture accuser disappears in Chechnya; Dagestan newspaper shut down; Russia accuses Georgia of preparing for war; Solzhenitsyn’s funeral; Russia may move bombers to Belarus, pledges to give Iran ...
When I read articles or books by Minxin Pei, I begin to wonder whether the color revolutions were to Vladimir Putin what 9/11 was to George Bush – an existential challenge that would forever define the presidencies and skew their decisions t...
Some of you may have noticed a diminished presence from me on these pages over the past week, as I am taking some summer holiday time with my family. However there was one item, neither flattering nor overtly hostile (just snarky as one would expe...
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