Will Putin’s visit to the world’s largest democracy ‘resuscitate the flagging relationship’ Russia currently shares with it, as this commentator in the Financial Times puts it? For a considerable period Russia has hel...
The advent of ‘game-changing‘ shale gas is the subject of a glut of articles in today and yesterday’s press, all of which make no denial that this gas could have a seismic effect on the global energy trade and force a re-alignmen...
Apparently India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp may be invited to develop projects in Russia, and is looking for stakes in partnership with Rosneft and Gazprom in the Yamal Peninsula, East Siberia and the Sakhalin-3 project. Impr...
Putin’s India visit heralds a flurry of deals in energy, aviation and arms: contracts worth $10 billion are allegedly to be signed. Improved banking ties may be one branch of the plethora of negotiations. It is also reported that...
TODAY: Regional election promise little advance for opposition parties; anti-Putin petition making waves. Close Yanukovych ally named Ukrainian PM; Russia suspicious of US presence in Kyrgyzstan; buying up land in Paris. US human rights survey fla...
Today’s news that President Medvedev plans to create his own political party may well be raising an eyebrow or two among commentators. Apparently backed by éminence grise Vladislav Surkov (whose alleged role certainly demands anal...
The beginning of Anna Badhken’s new article in the Boston Globe comparing the Chechen and Iran conflicts is effusively naively in thinking that Russia’s problems in the Caucasus have been solved, nevertheless the discussion merits some...
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s plans to commission a vast series of street posters of Josef Stalin for the May V-Day parade has raised a lot of controversy, not least even statements from United Russia and the Public Chamber that he should canc...
It’s not particularly surprising to me that Boris Berezovsky won his libel lawsuit against RTR for airing a program accusing him of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. What is more surprising is this brief note in the FT’s covera...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ‘wheeling and dealing‘ with Dmitry Medvedev ‘has become expected as European governments seek to close the gap between their own shrinking energy resources with those provided by Russian m...
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