In a new article in the Wall Street Journal, Zenyo Baran and Robert A. Smith of the Hudson Institute explain how Gazprom has pushed the economically astronomically expensive South Stream pipeline to defeat two competing European proposals designed...
This clip from the Labour Party features David Miliband and Douglas Alexander talking about British relations with Russia, among other foreign affairs issues. Fast forward to 4:48 for the good stuff.
Ah, the sweet smell of elections season, when Russia’s political environment blossoms into a stridently anti-Western minefield, hubristic enough so as to sufficiently distract the populace from the painful fact that they are deprived of basi...
Stratfor is very premature with their prediction of the next U.S. president (and the reasoning dismissing the Democrats is both brief and flawed), but they are quite right in remarking that foreign governments are already hedging their bets and pr...
Gazprom has threatened to halt fuel supplies to Ukraine unless the country settles a $1.5 billion debt or offers assurances that it will pay. Naftogaz Ukrayny, Ukraine’s state fuel company, denied it owes Gazprom $500 million for additional ...
The Central Bank of Russia is claiming that the liquidity crisis has strengthened banking finances. Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov has “refused to recognize even the signs of the impending collapse of liquidity,” commenting that the bank system “has...
TODAY: Russia run by the KGB? OSCE to boycott presidential elections. Aleksanyan to receive treatment in a civilian clinic. Polish Prime Minister in Russia for “rough” talks. According to one sociologist, “an astounding 78% of the country’s ...
Even the cream of Russia’s penitentiary service, the flower of the State’s militocracy, can make a mistake once in a while. However, the dramatic error committed yesterday by the Siberian bureaucratic management, which allowed Neil Buckley of the ...
From Reuters: Dmitry Medvedev, likely to be Russia’s next president, says the country’s so rich from an oil-fuelled boom that billions can be doled out simply by a click of the fingers. “Money today is not a problem at all: only ...
Marek Menkiszak, a Polish academic at the Warsaw University’s Centre for Eastern Studies, is quoted by Interfax today talking about the central problems in EU-Russia relations: “I think the fundamental problem in Russia’s approac...
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