TODAY: Russia and Ukraine agree on gradual rise in energy prices, disagree over Georgian arms; Czech government suspicious of Russian intelligence; will troops withdraw from Georgia? Union of Right Forces disbands, Kremlin pressure suspected; Poli...
Or: How Gazprom’s call option on Eni’s stake in Gazprom Neft proves Yukos asset laundering – and I can’t believe I am the only one paying attention to it Just for rhetorical purposes, let’s imagine way back to that ti...
Matthew Chance at CNN has an interesting news clip up about a Russian soldier who has appropriated agitprop pop culture methods of the West (a satire hip hop video spread via internet) to express his disenfranchisement in the military. While other...
[Editor’s note: this posting from Pasko should have been put up a while ago. The delay is solely my fault!] Concrete creations by concrete lads The 11th Architectural Biennale in Venice Grigory Pasko, journalist In the year 2006 at the archi...
Andrei Illarionov has a piece up on Gazeta.ru which argues that Russia itself is for the most part to blame for its current financial crisis. The Barents Observer provides a good English summary of his comments: Meanwhile, the Russian government s...
Political science professor Greg Weeks thinks that the Russia-Venezuela lovefest is just a short-term opportunity to poke Washington in the eye, and that Chavez could soon get dropped like a Castro-ish hot potato: There is one point, however, that...
VP Candidate Sarah Palin has stated that she has Russia foreign policy experience as a function of Alaska’s geography – that she can see Russia from the state. Although there are some discrepancies over her exact statement on the matte...
We are very glad to see this excellent article from Eric Watkins in the Oil and Gas Journal: Let’s Not Forget Khodorkovsky The fate of Russian oilman Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been written about before in this space and he has not been forgot...
Russia’s stock market may be struggling, but its oil wealth reserves have just hit $189 billion. The US Senate has approved its ‘breakthrough’ civilian nuclear deal with India. The global financial crisis could stunt the growth of nuclear plant pr...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s announcement that social security taxes paid by businesses will rise by as much as 8% in 2010 to strengthen the pension system has frightened businesses. Putin again blamed the ‘irresponsible’ US for current global ...
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