Former Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder often catches a lot of flak for having acting in Gazprom’s interests while in office, pushing through the Nord Stream gas pipeline project at the expense of Eastern Europe’s energy security...
Gazprom is reportedly “in talks with holders of a few gas traders in the United States” about potential buyouts. Alexei Miller, the chief executive of Gazprom, has promised that his company would invest $30 billion by the end of the year, and pred...
Norilsk Nickel posted a “surprise” 12% drop in 2007 net profit after writing off nearly $2 billion on the value of newly acquired mining and power assets. Read a Moscow Times transcript of an interview with Interros chairman Vladimir Potanin. Bill...
TODAY: Russia plans increased Navy presence in the Arctic; Putin promises military its budget will enable “military readiness”; Russian Press Congress; Shuvalov ‘berated’ by Putin; Medvedev ratifies agreements with Norway and the SCO. The Defense ...
It’s the kind of story that I think a lot of journalists and commentators really salivate over: beleaguered President George W. Bush’s final farewell tour of Europe, a grueling schedule of five countries in six days, a papal visit, deb...
An article by Peter Finn in yesterday’s Washington Post makes an interesting point about Yelena Valyavina’s surprising confession in late May about Kremlin interference in the courts: now we’re at least allowed to talk about rule...
[This week at the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum I finally had the opportunity to personally meet with the youth movement leader Oleg Kozlovsky, a young man of admirable courage and intelligence – the kind of person who means so much for the fu...
After the election of new academicians and members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (among the number of new foreign members – friend of Vladimir Putin and one of the managers of the company for the construction of the underwater gas pipeline No...
French Deputy Herve Mariton, president of the France-Russia group of deputies in the National Assembly, took time to meet with the mother of Mikhail Khodorkovsky yesterday during a visit to Moscow (photographed), as reported by the French newspape...
Yesterday Russia’s opposition congregated in Helsinki for an all-day conference to do something that has become quite difficult within Russia – discuss her internal political problems and propose solutions for the future. The second an...
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