From Luke Harding’s latest dispatch about the British Council: Today, Tony Blair – who was attending a private investors’ conference in Moscow – admitted relations between London and Moscow had been “difficult”,...
The Wall Street Journal warns of an overheating Russian economy: But with inflation surging in recent months — the annual rate in May was the highest in more than five years — the worry now is that the economy is growing too fast. Infl...
This interesting book review of Hammer and Tickle by Ben Lewis in the Telegraph comes at a particularly timely moment with the Kremlin’s shuttering of the Exile tabloid… Though a few days old now, anyone needing to freshen up their sto...
This was from yesterday’s WSJ Environmental Capital Blog: Russia is winning the natural gas pipeline wars because it isn’t worried about the things that Western Europe (or much of the U.S. Congress) is worried about: climate change or fussy ...
AAR, the consortium of Russian shareholders in TNK-BP, is publicly attacking what it views as BP’s “arrogance”, with Mikhail Fridman also reportedly likening BP’s chairman Peter Suthland to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. Saudi Arabia’...
Russia’s economy expanded an annual 8.5% in the first quarter, higher than economists expected, as consumer demand fueled an investment boom. Austrian builder Strabag won a €1 billion ($1.5 billion) share of a contract to build an eight-lane highw...
TODAY: World Bank President visits Russia, praises economy, criticizes inflation; Putin says government funds are stalled; Russia boosts military presence in Central Asia; gifts for officials to be banned; Russians in Dubai. Robert Zoellick, the P...
What is interesting about the Kremlin’s bureaucratic attack upon the caustic ex-patriot satire newspaper The Exile (it is a little exhausting to always write eXile), is not that it is simply another case of media censorship by the state, but...
We’ve spent a lot of energy over the years covering the pipeline race between Russia and the West, as alternatives to Kremlin-controlled energy are desperately sought and usually thwarted by adept maneuvering from Moscow. Grigory Pasko has l...
It’s not just that Gazprom has gotten used to taking things away from Royal Dutch Shell, although it may appear as such following Sakhalin and now their move toward Nigeria’s troubled Ogoniland (see my recent post on Shell’s with...
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