Russia’s Energy Minister and the EU Energy Commissioner have signed a memorandum establishing an early warning mechanism to anticipate potential gas cuts and allow time to find solutions to problems before deliveries are physically affected....
Since the beginning of the month, Russia’s central bank has spent over $5 billion on interventions aimed at slowing the ruble’s gain. Oleg Deripaska has dismissed Michael Cherney’s RusAl stake claim, saying it ‘resembles [&...
TODAY: Medvedev speaks in Singapore, elections committee to be formed under the president?; Abkhazia pledges dialing allegiance to Russia; Moscow real estate and low-rise government housing; kiosk theft, Nabokov. Soundbites from Dmitry Medvedev...
As many readers are aware, the Russian government has been on a recent censorship tear, including talk of banning off-color and proudly offensive animated TV imports such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park (oddly, Venezuela’s Hugo C...
From time to time, La Russophobe forwards us links to what they are publishing. This posting on subnational authoritarianism in particular is quite interesting. Writing in the Russian Analytical Digest, Vladimir Gelman argues that the ...
In what are sure to be the most bizarre and cringe-worthy videos of the week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed up as the featured guest on a popular hip hop TV show in Russia. According to the AFP, Putin commented “And breakdance i...
Uppsala University in Sweden says the IEA’s annual World Energy Outlook ‘drastically underplayed the scale of future oil shortages‘. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has won Slovenia’s approval for the South Stream ...
First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has announced that Russia has again raised its target for revenue from various state asset sales next year to 100 billion rubles ($3.5 billion), more than 10 times the original target. ‘The state wil...
TODAY: Medvedev meets Obama in Singapore on sidelines of Apec, discusses Iran and START; what happened to Russia’s US-Afghan supply route?; more law enforcement officers weighing in on corruption; Putin didn’t attend hip-hop party to b...
The International Energy Agency increased its forecast for 2010 global oil demand as the pace of economic recovery in Asia and the Middle East quickens, but has apparently cautioned that rising oil prices could jeopardize the green shoots of recov...
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