Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the British bank Barclays is looking to raise some $10 billion in capital from Kremlin-controlled banks Sberbank and VTB. The bank has studiously avoided any government bailout plan in the UK, which ...
The attentive reader may recall that Sergei Lavrov got a little bit prickly in response to U.S. sanctions on the state arms exporter Rosoboronexport. During yesterday’s press debriefing at the State Department, one journalist got a brief res...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Wen Jiabao, his Chinese counterpart, will meet today to discuss the details of a potential oil export deal, which could see China offering Russia a $25 billion loan. Vietnam, meanwhile, has signed an oil explorati...
‘Russia and metal stocks are toxic.’ Will the Russian film industry, amid rising production costs, survive the credit crunch? Major airline Krasnoyarsk Airlines has all but ceased operations due to debt issues. The Kremlin will bail out Russia’s c...
TODAY: French police conclude Moskalenko poisoning was ‘an accident’; Russia criticizes US over Syrian attack, offers Cuba support; Saakashvili dismisses PM; British MP admits it was a ‘mistake’ to meet Deripaska; youth groups, internet firewalls....
Talk of a writer with a lieutenant-colonel Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In the writer Zakhar Prilepin’s essay “Поедем на авто, несогласный?” [“Shall we ...
Doug Bandow, a former Reagan hand, is one of those unique right-wing guys who pushes the realist soft policy approach with Russia (more Kissinger than McCain, that is). Today he argues that “the incoming U.S. administration should use the pr...
From the Asia Times Online: Without question, the landscape of diplomatic battles has been impacted deeply by the rise of petro-states in the context of ballooning oil prices. The question now arises whether this is just another bubble that will b...
Silovik-in-Chief Igor Sechin appears to be expanding his passport stamp collection with another series of foreign state visits – this time to China – to announce agreements to deepen energy cooperation and establish frameworks to incre...
We only partially agree with this Financial Times piece, which explains why Russia’s formation of an OPEC-like natural gas cartel with Iran and Qatar has some serious weaknesses which will in some ways prevent its ability to coordinate produ...
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