Prime Minister Putin has proposed revamping the financing structure for the Sochi Olympics as a state corporation model has not proved to be wholly workable, favoring a return to the previous model used, the federal targeted program. Inflati...
TODAY: Russia sets its sights on milestone warship purchase; Putin says ‘no one wants to be a vassal’ of US; Medvedev steadfast on South Ossetia and Abkhazia independence; no illusions on question of international recognition. Ch...
Back on Jan. 20, 2009, a 35-year-old previously convicted criminal named Sergey Vlasenko was driving a MAZ truck with a semi-trailer on the road leading from the Volgogradskoye chaussée to the settlement of Konstantinov of Ramenskoye Rayon of Mosc...
An amusing turn of phrase from the Financial Times’s take on Gazprom horrible first quarter results (-62%!!). While many stock analysts have been laying on the abuse on Gazprom, and of course we’re skeptical of its opacity and po...
Robert Skidelsky has an interesting piece here on RealClearWorld which takes a look at the recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as newly independent nation states by Russia and Nicaragua, the polemics of confusing state and nation. The ...
Reconstructing an oil deposit consumed by fire in the north Siberia’s Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area will cost $48 million. Despite the huge blaze, pipeline operator Transneft says that regional oil supplies are secure. The conflag...
The chairman of the German government-backed trust designed to oversee the sale of Opel has said that GM cannot afford to keep control of the European unit, as it needs to focus on its fortunes stateside. According to the New York Times, the...
TODAY: Russia pushes for recogition of breakaway regions; Ukraine denies allegations of involvement in war; USSR plan to invade Manchester revealed; Russia’s silent monuments to nuclear victims; Arctic Sea, dark spots. Russia’s Foreign...
Continuing our slog through the end of August, I have just published a book review of The Silence and the Scorpion by Brian Nelson over on Huffington Post, which makes a pretty good case that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez should be standing tri...
Tomas Valasek of the Center for European Reform has a sharp column in the Wall Street Journal today on the European loan to Ukraine to buy Russian gas. If Gazprom chooses to cut the taps, Kiev would be likely to hoard supplies intended for E...
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