Year: 2008

March 19, 2008

Russia Will Recognize the Unrecognized

This exclusive translation come from RBC Daily: Russia will recognize the unrecognized …In half a year Today parliamentary hearings of the committee for CIS affairs and relations with compatriots «On the state of the settlement of conflicts ...
March 19, 2008

Tom Nicholls: Oil Is the New Gold, Says CERA

We could see $120 a barrel oil or more as spooked investors stampede into commodities, warns Cera. But the gathering storm clouds over the US economy probably mean that, eventually, prices will ease Oil has become the new gold – a financial asset ...
March 19, 2008

Energy Blast, March 19, 2008

Lukoil doesn’t plan to send pipeline oil shipments to Germany in April, citing unidentified oil traders. The company has appointed seven banks to arrange a $1 billion syndicated loan for “general corporate purposes”. Russia’s federal a...
March 19, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – March 19, 2008

TODAY: Russia’s relations with the West are on the decline, announces Foreign Ministry; US-Russia missile talks take positive tone, but fail to reach a solution. Rice meets with Yavlinsky over breakfast. Nevzlin case begins. Gorbachev reveals his ...
March 18, 2008

Grigory Pasko: Toadies at the Service of the Regime

Toadies at the service of the regime By Grigory Pasko, journalist Two messages came to my mailbox at the same time. The first was about a search in Chita in the office of the Chita Human Rights Center. The second – about the intimidation of the le...
March 18, 2008

A Popular Fear of Change

The following is a translation from RBC Daily: Russians for Putin Population of RF fears regime change in country Over the past two years, the quantity of Russians supporting the course of Vladimir Putin without reservation and considering that th...
March 18, 2008

Video: Stanford on Russia’s Succession

From FORA.tv: The Putin-to-X Succession – Part I with panelists Pavel Podvig, M. Steven Fish, and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss. Kenneth Jowitt moderates. This is the second panel of a three panel event on Political Succession in Russia hosted by the...
March 18, 2008

Bribing for Grades

It’s no secret that Russia has a rampant corruption problem – something that Joschka Fischer has described as a “symptom of the disease of selective modernization.” However, as an article by Jane Armstrong of the Globe and ...
March 18, 2008

Energy Blast, March 18, 2008

Russia’s former power monopoly Unified Energy System has lowered the valuation of power supply company MosEnergoSbyt to $944.3 million. UES initially said MosEnergoSbyt was worth $1.3 billion. Gazprom may be forced to allow other companies t...
March 18, 2008

Today in Russian Business

“Investor trust in Russian equities is based more on the perceived security of the current Kremlin leadership than on the faith that financial institutions will somehow protect shareholders’ rights.” Russian stock markets suffered heavy loss...