Year: 2008

April 10, 2008

How to Turn Around a Failing Oil Company

Michael J. Economides and Donna Marie D’Aleo have written an important chapter for a new Energy Report published by Transitions Online, which takes a comprehensive look at the early legacy of Yukos – even going so far as to tell the story of...
April 10, 2008

Energy Blast – April 10, 2008

The biggest Russia energy story of the day comes from the International Herald Tribune, reporting that Gazprom and Eni are preparing to join forces to build a natural gas pipeline from Libya to the European Union. The IHT reports: Some analysts de...
April 10, 2008

Today in Russian Business – April 10, 2008

The Commerce Department is reporting that U.S. exports to Russia shot up by more than 45% from Feb. 07 to Feb. 08, while a survey report of 300 international retailers ranked Russia third (22%) as a preferred destination for new franchises. There&...
April 10, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 10, 2008

TODAY: The Merchant of Death, Russia pressures the UN on Kosovo, problems with Poland, nationalizing the airport, Moscow Mayor looks to climb, and a look at Putin’s PM power play. Reputedly one of the world’s most prolific arms dealers...
April 10, 2008

Human Rights NGO Attacked in Russia

The following is an exclusive translation of breaking news from Lenta.ru. It appears that the offices of the civil society organization “For Human Rights” – headed up by Lev Ponomarev (photographed at right during 2007 protest ar...
April 9, 2008

Grigory Pasko: A New Movement with Old Slogans

A report from the conference of democratic forces of Russia in St. Petersburg By Grigory Pasko, journalist The weather in St. Petersburg on the morning of 5 April was glorious – a rare occurrence for this city. And already in the morning, access t...
April 9, 2008

Interview with Russian Journalist in Asylum

RFE/RL has an interesting interview with Yelena Tregubova, a journalist and author who was forced to flee to asylum in the United Kingdom following death threats in her native Russia for government-critical reporting. “In fact, the strange t...
April 9, 2008

Fraser Cameron: The EU Must Resist Division by Russia

EurActiv has an interesting interview today with Fraser Cameron, director of the EU-Russia Centre, who argues that “Russia is a master of ‘divide and rule’” tactics, and says that “The key message is that the EU must ...
April 9, 2008

Tapping Turkmenistan without Russia

There’s a very interesting opinion article in the Wall Street Journal today about Europe’s efforts to bring Turkmen gas directly to the EU without first going through Russia, arguing that the new President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov o...
April 9, 2008

Energy Blast – April 9, 2008

BP stands to lose up to $20 billion to Gazprom as the government seizes control of a larger stake in the production project at TNK-BP’s Kovykta field. Rosneft’s fourth quarter net earnings leaped from $603 million last year to $2.98 bi...