Blogger Tim Newman has a great comprehensive post about the staggering investment figures, often fudged and bandied about by state officials, that are required for Russia’s energy sector to get production online at current and new offshore f...
The Associated Press reports on a Council of Europe delegation currently visiting Russia on a fact-finding trip to ascertain whether or not the Federation is living up to its member obligations to the Council in terms of human rights: Luc Van den ...
Russia’s tax authorities have claimed $256 million in back taxes on TNK-BP, and the Natural Resources Ministry has extended its investigation into the company by one month. TNK-BP’s co-owner has called on the Russian government to broa...
The St Petersburg International Economic Forum, attended by up to 8,000 participants, will be held in early June. Aeroflot, the state-owned airline, would benefit from a takeover of Italy’s Alitalia as its lack of planes currently prevents i...
TODAY: Russian journalists hold convention on crisis; Russia says Georgia flight over Abkhazia violated UN agreements, Georgia blames NATO for current troubles; IOC inspects Sochi. The Russian Union of Journalists is holding a convention in Moscow...
These are indeed tough times for energy, and not just for spiraling oil prices and the burden of filling your gas tank. It’s been almost a year and a half since now we first started blogging about Russia’s perceived efforts to form a n...
It’s tough to think of another country whose intelligence services are as deeply involved with foreign investment and private sector business than Russia. From Reuters: Russia has also been strengthening its hand with a proposed law on forei...
There’s a strong editorial in today’s Washington Post on Russia’s shooting down of a Georgian drone. Inasmuch as recognizing Kosovo, building missile shields, and talking about MAP status for Georgia and Ukraine at the NATO summi...
Robert Conquest, the author of one of the most seminal works on the horrors of Stalin’s gulags, has a new essay reflecting on the republishing of this work almost 40 years later, and the tragic arc of Russian history. Conquest remarks that a...
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