President Dmitry Medvedev signed a $1 billion deal to supply a uranium-enrichment plant in China during his visit to the country. Private equity fund Pallinghurst Resources is seeking a deal for its Faberge luxury goods brand to use gems from stat...
TODAY: Medvedev signs joint statement with China denouncing US missile shield, convenes new Security Council, establishes “Order of Parental Honour”. Poland stokes tensions with Russia; British commentator angry over Russia’s Eurovision win. Putin...
Russia has been declared champion of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest, with the artist Dima Bilan beating out the stiff competition in a globally televised event of perplexingly enormous national pride. To me, it’s all pretty strange (don...
Dmitry Medvedev struck a defensive tone during his Saturday press briefings in Beijing: ”Some don’t like such strategic cooperation between our countries, but we understand that this cooperation serves the interests of our people, and ...
Yesterday Bob blogged about the challenges faced by Russia and China in building a strategic energy partnership. Today Kommersant has more details, including a revelation that although China was Rosneft’s biggest oil importer in 2007, the co...
Viktor Erofeyev has an interesting column running in the International Herald Tribune today about the unsaid, accidental theme of Putin’s presidency: the rise of private life. Let the good times roll, for Russia’s sake By Viktor Erofey...
[See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this series.] Nord Stream, Scandinavian Style Beware of Greeks bearing gifts Part 5 Grigory Pasko, journalist After it had become known about the contracts signed between Nord Stream and archaeologists, a...
The summer film season has officially kicked off, as the latest offering in the adored Indiana Jones film series opened to record-setting audiences across the globe on Thursday, including on more than 800 screens in Russia. However not everyone is...
Today Reuters is reporting that Gazprom has signed a deal with Vietnam’s state-owned energy company, Petrovietnam, to explore four new offshore fields. Gazprom says that their joint venture company VietGazprom, which has been exploring a Vie...
BP may have to repay its Russian venture, TNK-BP, more than $400 million after Tetlis, a minority shareholder, sued in Siberia to annul an employment contract between the two oil producers. Relations between BP and its partner in the venture “appe...
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