The financial crisis is having a dire effect on migrants who depend on money from their employers to support their families back home, meaning that the effects of Russia’s plummeting economy are felt in many other countries. The rate o...
TODAY: Gazprom blames US for ongoing gas dispute; Ukraine says no pressure in gas pipelines; Bulgarian and Slovakian prime ministers to visit Russia and Ukraine; European Commission may advise EU to sue; Russian political freedoms at a low as car ...
Undaunted and unrestrained, Garry Kasparov hammers away again at the Russian leadership in the Wall Street Journal: So the question for Western leaders is whether they doubt Mr. Putin would hesitate to provoke a war in the Middle East. If his regi...
Germany’s RWE has agreed to buy Dutch utility Essent for €9.3 billion ($12.5 billion) including debt, in a bid to become a competitor for E.ON, but the news sent its share price down, with analysts suggesting that the deal was overpriced.&nb...
Putin is scheduled to be the opening speaker at the World Economic Forum at the end of this month, but he’ll have his work cut out for him, says Bloomberg. Writing about a ‘deep slowdown’ in the global economic system, the ...
TODAY: Gazprom resumes gas supply to Europe but says Ukraine is blocking deliveries; Putin responds to Medvedev criticism; troubled times for NGOs in Russia; Freedom House report sparks debate on authoritarian states.‘Everything is fine,R...
Over at the FT Brussels Blog, Tony Barber points to a news conference held last week between Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the press corps, in which Russia’s invokes repeated references to Ukrainian food and drink in order to make his po...
An extract from some of Anne Applebaum’s pipe dreams… Instead of sending their best and brightest to create a genuinely secure system — through expanded use of liquid natural gas, more nuclear plants, clean coal — most Euro...
Estonia’s most famous contemporary composer, Arvo Pärt, premiered a new major symphony work in Los Angeles this past weekend dedicated to Mikhail Khodorkovsky (whom he calls “a great man”) and gives a nod to “all those impr...
Russia’s Gazprom turns the natural gas taps back on to the Ukraine, but it will be a few days before the flow catches up to Europe. Embedded video from CNN Video
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