From Llewellyn King: No building in Moscow says “Soviet Union” so much as the headquarters of Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly. It is more foreboding than the Lubyanka, the former headquarters and torture emporium of the KGB. The roma...
I don’t often link over to the mainstream blogs, but we do regularly read what may be a surprising diversity of them. This one comes from Matthew Yglesias (on the situation in Gaza) which I thought was insightful. For my part, I think ...
Yesterday Michael Idov had a piece in the New Republic warning readers not to misunderstand the automobile tariff protest uprisings in Russia as any kind of real political movement – yet. Outraged citizens who took to the streets over ...
The strategy of the national security of Russia to the year 2020 will be confirmed at a session of the Security Council of Russia on 20 February of the year 2009. Certain details of this document were published, as if by chance, in the local media...
Time is running out…but for who? The EU Presidency, currently residing with Mirek Topolanek, the Czech prime minister, has just issued Russia with a 24-hour deadline to restore gas supplies to the EU via Ukraine’s pipelines, but ...
Powerful Russians seem to have a reputation for vindictive behaviour. Whether deserved or not, it seems to be the root of this curious rumour regarding an Austrian investor. Sonja Kohn disappeared from public view after it has emerged that h...
Crude oil has risen above $50 a barrel to a five-week high, and the cut off of Russian gas to Ukraine and Europe has led to an increase in natural gas prices. The chief executive of Italy’s Eni may have been feeling serene about the cr...
TODAY: Gas row dominates the press as Gazprom cuts off all supplies to Ukraine.Gazprom has confirmed that it shut off of all gas deliveries through Ukrainian territory – about 80% of all Russian gas – early this morning, sparking outra...
The case of Dr. Chee Soon Juan, the beleaguered Singaporeon opposition leader who government officials have sought to shut down with repeated phony lawsuits and charges, has taken a turn for the worse as a new trumped up charge has essentially mad...
One would think that if you were the head of a multinational energy firm based in a country that imports 87% of its energy, you would be worried, or at least mildly perturbed, regarding the dramatic escalations in the natural gas dispute between R...
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