(Photo from Associated Press, via Financial Times) Another senseless and outrageous terrorist attack has gripped Moscow today, this time striking the Metro stations of Lubyanka and Park Kultury, as apparently two separate female suicide bombers (r...
Russia is apparently losing interest in Ukraine’s gas infrastructure. ‘Putin’s a priori assumption that Yanukovych will — and should — agree to most or all of his proposals could seriously damage Russian-Ukraini...
This morning’s metro blasts caused a brief fall in the ruble. $500 million in write-offs last year will lead mobile phone operator MTS to report a net loss for the fourth quarter. This opinion piece comments on a recent televisio...
TODAY: At least 37 people killed in double suicide Moscow metro bombing; weekend of protests all over Russia; arms treaty with US sealed by a phone call; Kremlin smear campaign to discredit opposition? Yulia Latynina; Communist mayor beaten. Dozen...
On March 15th, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Hungary’s beautiful capital Budapest, ostensibly to celebrate the 162nd anniversary of the 1848-1948 revolution and war of independence. Among the many events commemorati...
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is being profiled on 60 Minutes (CBS) this weekend, and here goes a preview. I like Prok and the fact that he is coming to the United States, and I think that these flashes of independence could lead to ...
Yes, I am easily entertained. From the New York Times on the “finalizing” of a new arms control deal between the U.S. and Russia. Mrs. Clinton said that she did not anticipate any trouble getting the agreement ratified by the Sen...
Try not to laugh. From the Economist on the Yukos-Rosneft legal battle, emphasis mine. The injunctions, which stop Rosneft from making payments from its local accounts, have put its oil traders and its creditors into a spin. They put Rosneft...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov is calling for his country to ‘forget‘ the past five years of relations with Russia, ‘turn the page and start from a clean slate‘ in order to revise the gas contract between the two. &...
The cost of an average Russian bribe more than doubled last year, and is currently somewhere around $780. State pressure is reportedly weeding out transfer-pricing schemes under which companies – particularly in the coal sector –...
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