Russia’s oil output may have decreased slightly in May but it remains close to the record high levels of above ten million barrels a day for the ninth month in a row. Transneft has seen an increase in profit of 70% in 2009. Russi...
Boeing has beaten Airbus to win a lucrative tender to supply Russian airline carrier Aeroflot with 65 mid-range jets. Sberbank president German Gref has warned that the most recent cut in the benchmark interest rate may have a negative impac...
TODAY: Opposition attack police rally response, journalist’s arm broken after beating; International Children’s Day St Petersburg protests; United Russia’s drive to protect young minds; Orthodox Church calls for strict abortion c...
An editorial published today in the government-controlled Thai newspaper The Nation makes reference to my work and that of my colleague, lawyer Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops. Apart from the usual attacks, untruths, and libel that accompany intense po...
The leadership of the Russian Federation is all too often willing to openly identify the United States and NATO as its #1 enemy in leaked (on purpose, of course) security doctrines. The idea that NATO actually has coherent plans to harm Russ...
Some interesting musings on just how far gone Ukraine finds itself under Russia’s proclaimed sphere of influence published in the Financial Times: “People expected the pendulum to swing, but not so sharply,” says Andrew Wilson, a...
Bloomberg is running an interesting piece today about the lukewarm reception of many Hong Kong-based investment funds to Oleg Deripaska’s recent listing of the metals giant Rusal. For many Russian companies looking to raise funds throu...
By almost any account, the Russian opposition is fragmented, persecuted, and poorly organized. Why, then, does the Kremlin leadership put so much energy into quashing their occasional marches of a few hundred people with such brutality and i...
The Russian government has revised its forecast for how much gas Gazprom will export this year, reducing it by 5%, taking into account stiff competition from Qatar and Norway. Read in the FT a discussion of how oil prices significantly influ...
The central bank has cut interest rates for the 14th time in a yearlong cycle. Vladmir Putin has lambasted steel makers for plans to increase their prices by 22%. The Prime Minister has urged private firms to help the state keep prices...
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