Month: June 2010

June 15, 2010

Energy Blast – June 15, 2010

Bulgaria’s deputy foreign minister has suggested that the European Nabucco gas pipeline project is more important for the country than the Russia-backed South Stream project.   An analysis from Stratfor examines the tergiversations...
June 15, 2010

Today in Russian Business – June 15, 2010

An ex-lawyer for Yukos, Pavel Ivlev, who now leads the Committee for Russian Economic Freedom, has send an email warning to nearly 1000 foreign participants in the upcoming Economic Forum against having any illusions about doing business in Russia...
June 15, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 15, 2010

TODAY: Kyrgyzstan violence continues, CSTO to send in helicopters; US human trafficking report published; Medvedev unexpected trip to Chechnya; Iran demands missiles; Latvian arrested over Arctic Sea; Baluva test; rally against police lawlessness;...
June 14, 2010

Energy Blast – June 14, 2010

According to Reuters, Iran is putting the finishing touches to a $7 billion ‘peace pipeline’ deal to export natural gas to Pakistan by 2015.  Vladimir Putin has reportedly approved a proposition by French oil major Total to encour...
June 14, 2010

Today in Russian Business – June 14, 2010

Car maker AvtoVAZ apparently anticipates total car sales in Russia to exceed 1.7 million this year, from 1.47 million in 2009, on the back of the state-endorsed cash-for-clunkers scheme.  The company also plans to slash 10% of its workforce, ...
June 14, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 14, 2010

TODAY:  Escalation of ethnic unrest in Kyrgyzstan prompts government to seek Russian help; Kremlin sends paratroopers; Kazakhstan concerns about politics of customs union; missile sales to Iran to stay on ice. Trifonova death cause establishe...
June 11, 2010

Reset Rethink

This one is a couple days old, but worth checking out.  From David J. Kramer blogging at Shadow Government (FP): There is no denying the vastly improved tone and rapport between the American and Russian presidents compared to the end of the B...
June 11, 2010

Thailand’s Permanent State of Emergency

A powerful article from Shawn W. Crispin, an editor for Asia Times Online, points to the inception of a new period of military-authoritarian dictatorship in Thailand. Thailand is sliding towards de-facto military rule and it is not clear that Prim...
June 11, 2010

Dmitry Sidorov’s Animal Farm

Dmitry Sidorov’s latest op/ed in Forbes is a vitriolic, no-holds-barred rant, but he’s right that at least somebody should be angry about the Russian officers who stole credit cards from the dead at the Polish president’s air cra...
June 11, 2010

The Human Rights World Cup

As the World Cup kicks off right about now, Amnesty International has come up with a clever way to ride some of the hype by putting together their own selection of players … though everybody appears to play defense.  The list features o...