With so much attention given to Gazprom’s moves to seal up supply in Central Asia, Iran, Northern Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, and Latin America, it seems that many have overlooked Russia’s quiet incursion into North America through the...
US government scientists estimate that the Arctic holds potentially a fifth of the world’s remaining oil and gas reserves – 90 billion barrels of undiscovered oil, and as much gas as all the reserves already known to exist in Russia. India’s...
Hermitage Capital Management and HSBC are alleging that fraudsters have stolen $230 million from the Russian tax authorities. Read a special report on the recent history of Hermitage and its owner, William Browder’s, series of run-ins with the Rus...
TODAY: Venezuela says media distorted Chávez comments; Russian bomber crews land in Cuba, defying US; Medvedev admits that government posts are up for sale; Putin delegates to federal structures; international elections monitors are spies, says Ru...
No one should be too surprised by the exceptionally warm welcome given to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during his recent visit to Moscow – these developments have been long in the making, and closely observed with appropriate concern (th...
Russia appears to be worrying about the arrest of Radovan Karadzic as being symbolic of Serbia’s inclinations toward better relations the European Union. Some Russian bloggers are already wondering when the obligatory “Free RadovanR...
I am absolutely blown away by the impressive online exhibit Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives, a moving portrayal of the Stalinist prison experience brought to us courtesy of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, in collabora...
It’s been a little while since we have seen an extended analysis of the latest from the Kremlin’s clan wars, and before I got the opportunity to spend a few hours on this, Gordon Hahn has already beat me to the punch. I agree with him ...
The knowledgeable Michael Economides and Nate Evans have a new article out in World Politics Review on Gazprom and Russian energy imperialism, arguing that the geopolitical motivations driving their policies are now clearly transparent. Recommende...
Russia and Venezuela have signed deals allowing three large Russian energy companies to work in Venezuela’s oil-rich Orinoco Belt, including TNK-BP and Lukoil. Regarding the Kremlin’s decision to allocate Arctic resources internally has Yuli...
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