We’ve done several blog posts here about the geopolitical importance of Iran in terms of EU energy security vis-à-vis Gazprom’s dominant position, and the careful dance between Moscow, Tehran, and the international community over nucle...
The Other Russia blog reported yesterday that the state’s Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Protection Service (Rossvyazokhrankultura) is looking to make registration mandatory for every owner and operator of a WiFi (wireless internet)...
Oil prices have surged to a new high, reaching $114 a barrel. Diamond company De Beers will acquire a large stake in the Verkhotina diamond deposit from LUKoil, ending a six-year legal dispute. The European Union sees Turkmenistan’s offer of gas f...
Russia and Brazil have signed an agreement to jointly develop a fifth-generation fighter jet. Globaltrans Investment, the privately owned freight rail operator, expects to raise up to $509 million floating a 29% stake on the London Stock Exchange,...
TODAY: Putin to lead United Russia. Advertising near the Kremlin banned. Storchak arrest could hamper arms deals with Libya. Ukraine won’t give up NATO membership drive. Sochi’s space monkeys. The biggest news today is that Vladimir Putin, “surpri...
When Vladimir Putin’s best friend in the European Union, Gerhard Schröder, left office he headed straight into employment for his friends in the Kremlin, taking a cushy seat on the board of the Nord Stream pipeline project. When Putin’...
Here’s another exclusive essay from the youth movement leader Oleg Kozlovsky, who has written for this blog several times. – Robert Amsterdam. The Big Integration Oleg Kozlovsky, Coordinator of Oborona movement Early April marked a new...
One of the participants in the conference on «The new agenda of the democratic movement» that took place recently in St. Petersburg was the well-known lawyer Yuri Markovich Schmidt. Our Russia correspondent, Grigory Pasko, who was present at the e...
During a speech to the Council of Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called upon Russia to not interfere with the reform process of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which is currently backlogged with tens of thousands of cases ̵...
It is being reported that Gazprom was “handed” one of Russia’s biggest oil and gas fields in Yakutia without an auction, “acting on orders from President-elect Dmitry Medvedev”. The win marks “the first time in post-Soviet Russia that a company ha...
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