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Month: March 2010
European Values and Relations with Russia
Sandra Kalniete, a former Ambassador from Latvia to the UN, pens a strong op/ed on EU relations with Russia. Russia acts with open hostility toward efforts by Central and Eastern European countries to find historical truth. Putin has emphasized on...
FSB and the Nationalization of Cyberspace
Not exactly new information to anybody here, but it’s still scary nonetheless. From Mishy Glenny, author of McMafia, in the Financial Times: Cyberspace is being nationalised rapidly. In some parts of the world, this has been going on f...
Energy Blast – March 18, 2010
The court injunctions Yukos has won against Rosneft are, according to Bill Browder, a ‘huge weapon’ in their battle against the company. The oil company’s stock has plummeted on talk of seizures due to the rulings. US...
Today in Russian Business – March 18, 2010
The rise in Russian industrial production has apparently been checked, with growth of 1.9% in February, a sharp drop on January’s 7.8% increase. Britain’s Office of Fair Trading has ruled that there are no obstacles to businessma...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 18, 2010
TODAY: Clinton in Moscow to push START onwards; complicated Middle East talks loom in background; EU urges Georgia to cease stirring up tensions with Russia; Ukraine to attempt EU-Russia balancing act. ‘Putin Must Go’ takes to th...
Yukos Gets “Major Weapon” with Rosneft Injunctions
Rosneft’s share price is crashing and they are having export problems due to injunctions secured by Yukos lawyers in the United Kingdom and United States – a measure which Bill Browder of Hermitage is describing as a “major weapo...
Sochi’s Blue Balls
I found this article in the New Zealand Herald thoroughly entertaining: apparently the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games will be using something called “Zorbs” – giant blue rolling balls with people running inside of them – as...
Everybody Hates the Reset
This bit from Time magazine gets right at the central problem of the Obama administration’s reset policy with Russia – it just isn’t being reciprocated when there are so many advantages to keeping Washington as the great enemy. B...
Energy Blast – March 17, 2010
Venezuela has agreed to supply crude to Belarussian refineries for joint sale on the European market – possibly spelling bad news for Russia’s income from export duty. Newly elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is hoping...