Diarmid O’Sullivan and Tom Mayne of Global Witness have a new opinion article in the Financial Times on the gas crisis – they frame the argument for transparency quite well: So what can be done? The EU has attributes that, wielded inte...
Today’s news that TNK-BP has appointed the former chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schröder, to its board of directors is a striking illustration of just how far away Russia has fallen from the most basic standards of a functioning market.&nbs...
One wonders whether it could really be worth it for the Kremlin to keep up this gas war, no matter how upset they are with the endlessly frustrating Ukrainians. For as much economic and political damage as they are imposing on their NATO-lov...
Alexander Lebedev is getting a lot of positive press lately after having made a bid for the London newspaper The Evening Standard. Luke Harding of the Guardian describes him as an “oligarch we could learn to love,” despite the fa...
Opposition protests led by students in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, quickly spiraled out of control and into violence yesterday – sparked by the gas shortages cause by the Russia-Ukraine dispute, but also focused on corruption of the rul...
Valdus Adamkus, president of Lithuania, had an interview with the Financial Times today. Since the invasion of Georgia and the gas war with Ukraine, the Baltics have become an area of grave concern, where some feel as though they are next on...
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Kyle Wingfield compares Gazprom to Airbus – pointing out that what could be an eminently great company is ruined by political intervention and abuses. That said, the Russian energy sector is emblematic o...
Europe’s energy supplies are running out, with insufficient stockpiles of liquefied natural gas to cover demand and Russian gas still not flowing. Polish government representatives are due to hold talks in Moscow today over gas supplie...
The ruble continues to lose value, hitting another record low against the Euro and a six-year low against the dollar. Despite earlier reports that his attempt had been blocked, oligarch Alexander Lebedev (also profiled here) has reportedly m...
TODAY: Ukraine and Russia to meet, Barroso decries lack of gas resolution, both sides continue to apportion blame. World Economic Forum to see mass protests; Putin takes up painting.The governments of Ukraine and Russia have agreed to meet this Sa...
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