Pressure is mounting on BP CEO Tony Hayward as the company fails to seal the Deepwater leak, which is spilling out 5,000 barrels of oil per day into the ocean. According to Bloomberg, Russia aspires to control all of Ukraine’s gas syst...
President Obama took the unusual step of expressing preference for a strong dollar in an interview with Russian television’s state-run Channel Rossiy (a job he normally leaves up to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner). The Eurozone cr...
TODAY: Deadly mine explosion kills 30, 60 remain trapped; metro attack remembered; Medvedev highlights unity and conciliation at Victory Day celebrations; NATO soldiers present, but did the US and GB face a snub? Katyn documents handed over;...
You’d be forgiven for feeling somewhat confused about the Kremlin’s official stance on the use of Stalin’s images in the Victory Day festivities: there seems to have been a degree of flip-slopping about the Soviet dictator’...
Here’s a follow up on the Magnitsky visa denial story, in which we saw US Senator Benjamin Cardin personally petition Hillary Clinton for a visa ban for those involved in the death of the Hermitage lawyer whilst in prison last year. To...
More concerns have surfaced today over the new FSB bill to ‘combat extremism’ submitted to the Duma last week. Today the Power Vertical’s Robert Coalson relays some criticisms drawn from INDEM foundation head Georgy Satarov...
Transneft minority shareholder Alexei Navalny has won a court ruling obligating the police to carry out a check into the beneficiaries of the pipeline operator’s billions of rubles in charity donations. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanuk...
Italian gun manufacturer Beretta is apparently contemplating opening a production unit in Russia. Space corporation Energia may purchase the operations of bankrupt satellite-launcher Sea Launch, which it needs to implement its Zenit booster ...
TODAY: US congressman to make move on Magnitsky case; Stalin continues to cause outrage; focus turns to living conditions for veterans today; Medvedev calls Stalin regime ‘totalitarian’. Obama keeps finger on reset button; puts c...
Oil company executives across the globe are doubtless counting their blessings that it was not an oil rig under their control that provoked the worst oil-spill environmental disaster since Exxon Valdez. Much media focus has been given to whe...
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