Carl Mortished of the Times has a new piece about $250 oil and the relationship to Gazprom’s output problems. He writes that although “the Russian firm enjoys scaring Westerners; it is ill at ease with its enormous wealth, and bears a ...
In a post yesterday, Robert Amsterdam opined that Alexei Miller’s prediction of $250 oil was unsupported and irresponsible, especially given the context of social tensions around petrol prices. Here is a video clip of how bad the fuel protes...
TNK-BP is suffering further difficulties, with its Russian oligarch partners threatening to sue BP in a Stockholm arbitration court in a bid to try and gain greater control over the venture. One UK newspaper says the struggle for control of TNK-BP...
Sergei Chemezov, a close Putin ally, has reportedly asked the Kremlin to transfer the state’s stakes in hundreds of firms to the Russian Technologies state corporation he heads, but the plan has been opposed by a number of public voices, inc...
TODAY: Medvedev speech at Moscow media conference calls for Cyrillic internet domains, media freedom and overhaul of European security; Moscow tabloid The eXile shuts down after investors pull out; Condoleezza Rice says US has no common values wit...
The St. Petersburg Times has an interesting new article picking up where the New York Times left off with the amusing/frightening story of the Kremlin’s digital censorship of television commentator Mikhail Delyagin. Perhaps the prize line of...
This short news clips discusses some of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s comments on relations with Washington. One commentator remarks on Medvedev’s wish to see the ruble rise as an internationally traded currency – something...
It will remain open for debate what Gazprom’s and Alexei Miller’s true intentions were this week when he announced the company’s perspective that the price of a barrel of crude oil will rise above $250 as soon as next year, but w...
Not long ago, the Financial Times did some digging around Geneva-based oil trader Gunvor, which later prompted a defensive letter to the editor from the shadowy owner Gennady Timchenko. Today we finally have the very first interview with him in th...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev may look young and inexperienced (this is his first elected position), but he is already showing a mastery of the Kremlin’s trademarked diplomatic doublespeak – making vast swings between aggressive an...
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