Here is a letter to the editor of the FT by energy expert Jonathan Stern: Important new Russian gas fields Sir, Regular readers of the Financial Times have no expectation that your leader page will ever say anything positive about Russia but, what...
From a Reuters story on Putin’s last official address: But there was no whiff of attraction when it came to a question about U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and her comment that former KGB officers can’t have souls. “A ...
RosUkrEnergo, the murky gas-trading vehicle half-owned by Gazprom, will continue to handle sales from Russia to Ukraine until a replacement, to be joint owned by Gazprom and Naftogaz, can be set up. First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said...
British banking giant Barclays, “whose investment-banking arm left Russia in 1999 nursing $250 million in losses,” could be poised to acquire small-size lender Expobank. President Vladimir Putin, at his last news conference as President, praised t...
TODAY: Medvedev wants 24-hour farming TV; advertising firms being coerced for billboard space in run-up to elections. News of Patarkatsishvili death hits the British press; Yushchenko to pass law on military bases following Putin’s threats. Presid...
This one is from the Boston Globe: Freedom and fear: a Russian paradox By Cathy Young February 13, 2008 OPTIMISM is not an attitude one would expect these days from a human rights activist in Russia – not when, after rigged parliamentary ele...
Following his column about Lev Ponomarev, Bret Stephens of the WSJ discusses the story on this video. The Journal linked to our video on YouTube, which received about 15,000 views within 24 hours.
In a new editorial, the New York Times takes aim at the Kremlin’s favorite narrative that Russia was in hopelessly dire straits before Vladimir Putin took power, and that the solution to all the country’s ills was to reign in the oliga...
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine settled a row over gas debts just minutes before a Moscow-imposed deadline for Kiev to pay up or face supply cuts. The countries agreed to axe intermediaries in gas trade and RosUkrEnergo has been excluded, alt...
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