As many readers know, this blog was born way back in the fall of 2006, right in the thick of the Khodorkovsky defense blitz and not long after I was kindly escorted from my Moscow hotel room by the security services in the middle of the night.&nbs...
Yesterday’s agreement over the maritime boundary in the Arctic Ocean signed by Dmitri Medvedev and Norway’s Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, settling a 40-year long dispute, has been heralded as proof that the Arctic is not a ‘z...
State managers will just have to grin and bear the privatization process, says Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, as he conveyed plans for an asset sale of greater scope than the $29 billion affair previously announced: the sale will in fact last fiv...
TODAY: Moscow show-down approaches as Kremlin sources claim Mayor will be ousted; is the anti-Luzkhov campaign signs of a split in the diarchy? Lukaschenko compromised by video campaign. Poland vows to arrest Chechen rebel; Georgia see...
Yesterday we were contacted by a PR representative of the Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) with the following message: Austria’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has now officially declared that there is no grounds for su...
Energy Minister Sergei Schmatko has expressed his belief that Russian oil production will reach a new post-Soviet high this year of more than 500 million tonnes. The head of oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, Nikolai Tokarev, has rebuffed pred...
Austria’s banking watchdog has said it found no evidence for wrongdoing when examining possible links between Raiffeisen Zentralbank and the $230 million defrauding of Hermitage Capital. Despite mediation attempts by Vladimir Putin, it...
TODAY: Surprise checks on human rights groups prior to regional elections; Microsoft to hand out free software to NGOs; United Russia meeting offers wholesale support to Luzhkov. Russian Defense Sec in Washington as START ratification pressu...
Lukoil is celebrating news that it will receive much sought-after tax breaks for its North Caspian fields, of a similar nature to those enjoyed by rival companies in East Siberia. Next spring will herald the construction of Russia’s fi...
A boost to the long-term development of the car industry?: Oleg Deripaska has bagged Siegfried Wolf, co-chief executive of Canadian auto-parts maker Magna International, and backer of the failed Magna-Opel bid for GM, as the new board chairman at ...
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