TODAY: Medvedev in the Kremlin, nominates ally for Rosneft post. “Color-coded” terrorist threat system to be implemented. Inflation causing other problems. Khodorkovsky’s complaints rejected. Dmitry Medvedev has moved into an office in the Kremlin...
From Tony Barber on the FT’s Brussels Blog: “It should come as no surprise that Putin played up Medvedev’s tough qualities. I vividly recall being in Moscow in 1985 when Andrei Gromyko, the long-serving Soviet foreign minister, recomme...
Geoff Smith of Renaissance Capital in Kiev is optimistic about the new natural gas deal: “This is a big improvement for both Gazprom and Ukraine. Commonsense prevailed. Any solution that avoids a disruption of European supplies is positive, ...
There’s an interesting piece in the Economist about the recent thaw in relations between Belarus and the West, and a possible political opening driven by Gazprom’s increasing reluctance to subsidize the Lukashenko regime with cheap nat...
Gazprom and Ukraine have agreed to remove all intermediaries in gas trade. “There is no need for them now after we agreed to supply Ukraine’s industrial consumers directly with some volumes and given the upcoming rise in the Central As...
$18.48 billion of Russian money was spent overseas in the last year, and $7.510 billion was received from abroad, according to new data from the Central Bank of Russia (CBR). The amount of outgoing money grew 83.4% on 2006. Lawyers of CBR and the ...
TODAY: No to brass Putin. Russia responds to attack on its human rights in kind. NATO criticizes Russian rhetoric. Students and professors fight to save St. Petersburg’s European University. Russia to crack down on internet freedom. Russia has las...
There has been a lot of interesting discussion over the comments made by Vladimir Putin during the press conference following his last meeting as president with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but what really caught everyone’s attention was...
Robert Amsterdam is quoted today in a story by Brian Whitmore of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Robert Amsterdam, an attorney on jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s international defense team and the author of an influential blo...
Much has been written about the closure of European University of St. Petersburg last month, one the region’s largest independent academic institutions. Local authorities shut down the facilities absurdly citing fire risks, but students and ...
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