The following is an exclusive translation of another article from RBK Daily – a pro-government press organ which sometimes provides a glimpse of Kremlin thinking. This latest piece explains that Vladimir Putin has finally discovered th...
Robert Dudley, to whom the press has regularly given the epithet ‘embattled‘ as a result of all his wrangling with TNK-BP’s Russian shareholders this year, has finally stepped down from his post as chief executive of the venture....
Following a number of false starts and peculiar circumstances at the beginning of the much-anticipated Anna Politkovskaya murder trial, Russia’s chief prosecutor, Yuri Chaika, has come forward to defend the ongoing investigation, insisting t...
The Kremlin obviously views last week’s Latin America tour by President Dmitry Medvedev as somewhat of a coup in foreign relations. The final Cuban leg of the tour was a feast of warm and fuzzy moments, with Raúl Castro walking arm in ...
Jackson Diehl at the Washington Post notes with disappointment that the Russia-Georgia moment of glory on the front burner of U.S. foreign policy may be coming to an end, and that if the U.S. reaction is soft, the tanks will take the road to Tbili...
…so they arrested the man who made such gloomy statements. Perhaps in the Kremlin they are asking, “Why didn’t we think of that?!” From the Wall Street Journal: “All I did was say what everyone knows,̶...
Germany’s E.On has asked Vladimir Putin for a personal guarantee on the effectiveness of its investment in Russian energy, leading to a promise from the prime minister that Russia would not slow development in the energy sector. Ukrain...
This weekend saw the annual Millionaire Fair in Moscow, heralded as the ‘anti-crisis event‘, less busy than in previous years, but still thriving. RusAl has nominated Onexim Group president Mikhail Prokhorov to the board of Noril...
TODAY: Russia to develop ballistic missiles; Medvedev ends Latin American tour in Cuba; protesters gather for Beketov; Svetlana Bakhmina gives birth; Politkovskaya investigators say they are closing in on the killer; EU must work on relationships ...
The rumored deal of Lukoil taking over an $8.3 billion stake in the Spanish energy giant Repsol is causing quite a feverish political debate in the country, underscored by deep suspicion and paranoia that the private Russian company could be a Tro...
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