Oil has risen to over $70 a barrel for the first time in a month. Bulgaria’s new government will continue to support the South Stream gas pipeline, but is as of yet undecided on whether to abandon its nuclear power plant, which was set...
Russia’s ‘unsustainable’ budget deficit is reportedly ‘a major threat to economic stability‘. Sevastopol market in southern Moscow is the latest market to be raided by police, heightening fears among law-abiding...
TODAY: New NATO chief asserts Russia needs to acknowledge sovereignty; nuclear chief fired; Uzbekistan wary of Kremlin’s Kyrgyzstan plans. Moscow-appointed judge in Yukos case to step down. Anniversary of Solzhenitsyn’s death. Th...
Steve LeVine has a blog post up about the William Browder and Hermitage lawsuit against Renaissance … yet points out that the foreign investors will keep on going back for more abuse. We’ve seen this movie before. For instance, BP keep...
James F. Collins of Carnegie Endowment has a column in the Moscow Times about the need to create an institutional apparatus to carry out relations between Moscow and Wasington in a structured and predictable environment … in other words, mak...
The Financial Times has an interesting piece about the former Moldovan Communist Party leader Marian Lupu, who is playing a central role in the current events in Chisinau. Lupu will essentially be the main coordinator of whatever political a...
International banks, the EU and Ukraine have met an agreement on Kiev reforming its gas sector that will allow the country to receive up to $1.7 billion in loans to secure gas transit. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development sai...
Oleg Deripaska will not be settling a $2.4 billion lawsuit brought against him in Russia, as he had hoped, but in London. During his trip to Lake Baikal, Prime Minister Putin said it was not entirely impossible that the paper and pulp mill t...
TODAY: Tensions raised in Georgia; Russia reserves right to use force as question of mortar attacks emerges; Kokoity pledges desire to unite with Russia. Moscow secures second base in Kyrgyzstan; Belarus halts task force. Putin does Ca...
Below is the continuation of Grigory Pasko’s exclusive interview with Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who talks about the Putin-Medvedev diarchy, Gerhard Schroeder, Barack Obama, and the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Read pa...
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