An attempt by oligarch Alexander Lebedev (profiled in yesterday’s Guardian, and who already holds a 49% stake in independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the paper which employed murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya) to buy UK newspaper The Ev...
Back when Vladislav Surkov invented “sovereign democracy,” we pegged it as the Brezhnev Doctrine revisited – much less a real political philosophy, and more a functional and durable rhetorical device to explain why Russian citize...
TODAY: EU and Russia agree on monitoring of gas deliveries, but gas has yet to resume flowing; Putin defends Russia’s position again, using Georgia as an example; US and Georgia to sign charter.The gas row continues, with hundreds of thousan...
Matthias Schepp in Spiegel Online tots up some of the more egregious losses of Russia’s spectacular spenders as a result of the economic crisis, and offers a few suggestions as to why the Kremlin is pouring so much money into bailing out its...
Remember back when the Iranians happily announced that Russia would soon begin delivering a supply of the S-300 Missile System, only to find out that later the same day Russian officials denied the reports, saying that no such shipments were plann...
A few days ago, the CEO of the Italian energy group Eni told everybody he felt calm and “serene” with regard to Gazprom’s decision to cut off all gas flowing through the Ukraine, leaving half a dozen countries freezing. Nat...
Many journalists, like Mary Dejevsky in The Independent, are calling for spectators to take a balanced view of the Ukraine-Russia gas dispute and insisting that Ukraine is as much to blame for Europe’s crisis as any other party. But to...
Analysts fear that the widening Gaza conflict will affect Middle East oil supplies, after Lebanese rockets hit Israel, sending the price of oil up. Venezuela has reduced oil exports to the US, China and Europe as part of an OPEC output cut d...
TODAY: Russia in talks with Ukraine and EU to attempt to solve the gas crisis; Bulgaria and others in state of emergency; Orthodox Christmas.The EU, Russia and Ukraine are holding talks today, following preliminary negotiations last night, to try ...
The French daily newspaper Le Monde has published a profile of Robert Amsterdam. The original article can be viewed online here – below is an English translation. Le Monde, Portrait, January 8, 2009 Robert Amsterdam, Lawyer without bar...
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