Here are some clips from a speech recently given by Robert Amsterdam at the World Affairs Council of Houston, Texas, on the comparative energy investment environments of Nigeria and Venezuela – with special attention paid to the rise of stat...
I realize that I have a lot of catch up to do with a number of interesting energy developments in Europe, not least what Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero has been saying, but also the Nord Stream discussions during Medvedev’s visit ...
Can we learn something about engaging with Russia on human rights from the way the West attempts to approach China? Today there’s a very interesting commentary piece on this in the FT by Geoff Dyer which takes a look at the Kevin Rudd approa...
This little nugget from Konstantin Kosachev was buried at the bottom of a WaPo story regarding the international reaction to Sen. Barack Obama’s long-awaited victory over Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination: And Russians have ...
Russia’s Interior Ministry has issued a summons to TNK-BP’s chief executive as part of an investigation into possible tax evasion. The EU’s external relations commissioner has discussed recent problems at TNK-BP with Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sec...
Russia’s Central Bank has withdrawn the license of Moscow-based Promkreditbank over banking legislation breaches. South Korean company Hyundai has begun construction of a $510 million car factory in Russia. In order to protect itself against...
TODAY: Putin and Medvedev “work as a team”; EU to take a “fresh look” on relations; Russia threatens Ukraine over NATO; Medvedev emphasizes ecological responsibility; actions Abkhazia “could threaten Olympics”; Gorbechev says Lenin sho...
Garry Kasparov is doing his thing this week at the World Newspaper Congress in Sweden, asking world leaders to be tougher on Russia for freedom of expression and control over media. However, among the +200 press junket, there were of course report...
In an remarkably simplistic and revisionist statement, former dissident and Russian journalist Aleksandr Podrabinek recently told RFE/RL: “The main feature of Russia today is a narrowing field of liberty in all spheres of life, such as the p...
Breakingviews has a column about the siege of TNK-BP – noting that the rise in the price of oil has eliminated any sense of security for foreign energy investors, as the state feels confident it can buy all the capital and technology inputs ...
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