On Monday afternoon, the editor of this blog posted an excerpt of an article authored by one Dr. Gary Busch, entitled “The Misperception of the Russian-Ukrainian Gas Problem.” We have since been notified by John Evans of European...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has donated a painting to charity, but don’t blame him for the Ukrainian detailing on the window curtains. Here is a link to the auction website – I wonder if Putin’s painting will garner the h...
Here is a link to Robert Amsterdam’s appearance on Canada’s Business News Network (BNN) Market Morning Brief segment to discuss the geopolitical and financial implications of the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute.
Former Secretary of State Larry Eagleburger has a shocking confession about Russia – he apologizes to inform us that he thinks U.S. policies are partly to blame for the deterioration in relations with Russia: “From my perspective, and ...
Back when Betrand Russel declared that “Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who will get the blame,” he probably had not yet envisioned that Russian authoritarian capitalism would function in a similar way (except f...
…is for Russia to maintain an aggressive foreign policy. Joschka Fisher points out this paradox of Russia’s attempts to rollback NATO (which was not an issue of concern whatsoever in years past) actually backfiring, and making th...
I caught this one in the FT today: “I would like to convey a very clear message to Moscow and Kiev: If the agreement sponsored by the EU is not honoured as a matter of urgency, the Commission will advise EU companies to take this matter to t...
An article we posted on the gas war this week pointed out that one reason why Gazprom was getting favorable press (at least early on) was that Europe was feeling exhausted from having to deal with fallout of the Russia-Georgia war and the seemingl...
As our regular readers know, correspondent Grigory Pasko spent much of last year touring the length of the planned route for the Nord Stream pipeline, writing articles, interviewing communities which would be affected, and even making a short docu...
Former KGB officer Alexander Lebedev, who owns shares in Gazprom, discusses the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute with the BBC. The Georgian government is defending its plan to hand over control of a hydropower plant on the border with separatist A...
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