It’s good to have a president. Even better – a blogger-president. A non-blogger wouldn’t have even noticed that agencies, in an attempt to complicate the search for information on a site, are changing Cyrillic letters to Latin on...
Lukoil’s net income fell 23% last year to $7 billion. State oil giant Saudi Aramco plans to inject carbon dioxide into Ghawar, the world’s biggest oilfield, by 2012, a year ahead of schedule, in a bid to improve production and re...
‘We have weak unions compared with Western Europe,‘ notes one economist, commenting on the total of unpaid Russian wages – currently at $136 million. ‘Companies aren’t afraid to delay salary and utility payments...
TODAY: Israeli prime minister praises Russia’s understanding of Iranian situation; nuclear nonproliferation; Russia to hold joint military exercises with Nicaragua; strange Russia Today; children confiscated over debts?; Justice Minister wei...
Michael Weiss has an interesting comment on the Obama administration’s reset diplomacy posted over at Pajamas Media. “Reset” in hindsight has claimed one extraordinary achievement for the administration: it has wiped out what onc...
Nicholas Gvosdev has a new article here which discusses how U.S. interests will be impacted by the election of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine, and what policies with Russia he is likely to pursue. He congratulates the Obama administration̵...
I recall reading once in an amusing satire novel based in Latin America, that one local mayor of a major metropolitan city decided that the best way to eliminate police corruption would be to lift all traffic and moving violation laws, so the poli...
The Washington Post is running an editorial on the sale of the Mistral warship by France to Russia, despite Moscow’s open violation of the Sarkozy-brokered ceasefire agreement to end the Russia-Georgia war of 2008. It is a pretty tough...
Gazprom has started production of coal-bed methane – one of three increasingly popular unconventional sources of gas that are causing a ‘silent revolution‘ in the US energy market and changing the face of the global gas market &#...
Finans magazine has published details on Russia’s rich list, naming steel baron Vladimir Lisin (more on him here) as Russia’s richest man with $18.8 billion. Overall, the list is starting to favor ‘more traditional Russian ...
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