Video: Graham Watson on the Strangulation of Democracy in Russia
Year: 2008
To Talk or Not to Talk with the Despots
What is a president to do with all the troublesome despots of the world like Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin? Freeze them out and refuse to engage, like President George Bush has done with the governments of Iran and Syria? Or set up regular diplom...
Energy Blast, Feb. 15, 2008
An oil deposit, which Russian state-controlled crude producer Rosneft is developing in East Siberia, will produce cheaper oil than Saudi crude. The company has dropped plans to sell convertible bonds to refinance debt, and says it will increase ou...
Today in Russian Business
“Russia’s relations with the West, however difficult, have never been more intimate. What passes for the rule of law in Russia makes Westerners blench, yet business thrives.” For the first time this year, the Central Bank of Russia has annou...
RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb. 15, 2008
TODAY: Medvedev sets out his program; Russia could join WTO this year. Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin press conference dominates the news. Duma to extend presidential term? Dmitry Medvedev has set out his program, pinpointing “freedom, private property ...
How to Steal in Russia
An impressive and powerful column from Tim Osborne of GML in the Moscow Times: How to Steal Legally By Tim Osborne Nothing seems to dampen the authorities’ enthusiasm to wipe out any trace of Yukos, which at one point was the country’s...
In Brussels, A Countdown to Russian Injustice
The Alliance for Liberals and Democrats for Europe, led by MEP Graham Watson, have unveiled a large countdown calendar board today displaying the number of days Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been held in prison, and the number of days until the Russian...
Russia Using Kosovo as Leverage for South Stream?
Here is an interesting tidbit from an energy article: The former Bulgarian Prime Minister Ivan Kostov is arguing that the Moscow is pushing to stalemate the EU on Kosovo not out of concern over separatist precedent, but because they benefit from c...
The West is No Enemy of the Russian People
This Martin Wolf column from the FT is a few days old now, but still offers some good stuff:
Russian Oil: Flat Like a Siberian Plain
To my knowledge, vast stretches of Siberia are actually quite mountainous, but I won’t dither with another man’s metaphors. Energy Tribune reports on Russia’s stagnating oil production after the jump.
