Year: 2008

January 25, 2008

The McCain-Deripaska Link Exposed

Today the Washington Post has broken a story revealing a private meeting between presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. John McCain and Russian billionaire and Kremlin loyalist Oleg Deripaska. This was apparently set up by Rick Davis, McCain’s campa...
January 25, 2008

Tom Nicholls: To pump or not to pump

Angola’s Opec cap is a headache for oil majors active in the country’s costly deep-water areas and will do no favours to the world oil-supply picture. By Tom Nicholls Earlier this month, ExxonMobil started production from the giant Kizomba C devel...
January 25, 2008

Schröder’s Political Comeback

Below is a translation from the French newspaper Le Monde about how Gerhard Schröder is successfully exploiting Angela Merkel’s difficulties with the regional elections and the sticky issue of handling immigrant youth delinquency, and may be...
January 25, 2008

Flattering, Squeezing, and Ignoring

From the Economist: The overall result is dismal. Russia tends to put countries in one of three categories: those it flatters, those it squeezes, and those it ignores. Countries can be switched with remarkable rapidity. Slovakia, the Czech Republi...
January 25, 2008

Another Spy Spat

When you hear about one former Soviet nation ejecting a diplomat on espionage accusations, followed by reciprocal measures in Moscow, you would probably assume we are talking about Georgia again. Not so. Today it is Latvia who is getting the Briti...
January 25, 2008

RA in the Washington Times: A Cautionary Tale

Robert Amsterdam has a new opinion article running in the Washington Times today: A cautionary tale By Robert Amsterdam January 25, 2008 Some may look into his eyes and see the soul of democrat, and others may see something far more sinister. Rega...
January 25, 2008

Energy Blast, Jan. 25, 2008

Gazprom’s acquisition of a majority stake in NIS is Russia’s “first big reward for supporting Serbia in trying to stop Kosovo from declaring unilateral independence”. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has asked Libya to release the head of oi...
January 25, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan. 25, 2008

TODAY: Kasyanov harassment; Putin’s carbon footprint; Rogozin to work constructively with NATO; Japanese government withdraw claims of espionage; Moscow’s wedding boom. The harassment of Mikhail Kasyanov’s campaign leaders was “a clear, a well-coo...
January 25, 2008

Today in Russian Business

Russia is in a strong position at the World Economic Forum, with optimism over it’s outlook prompting some investors to take a closer look at the country. “I think the emerging markets are going to be largely immune to the subprime crisis,&#...
January 25, 2008

Faces of the Opposition: Olga Galkina

The latest installment of Grigory Pasko’s Faces of the Opposition series features Olga Galkina of Yabloko. See our YouTube channel for much more.