Since the news first broke on late Friday afternoon, observers and oil obsessives have been scrambling all weekend to understand the meaning, precedent, and dimensions of BP’s announcement of its $7.8 billion tie up with the notorious Russia...
Oh boy. You’d think this reporter worked for RT rather that ITAR-Tass – usually they’re the ones who specialize in that whole political-sadism-at-moments-of-national-tragedy shtick. That said, this is totally being bl...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez maintains in detention varying numbers of political prisoners at any given time, but the case which has stood out the most over the past year has been that of Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni. Imprisoned for no rea...
Barring some remarkable turn of events, in about 14 months the first Medvedev presidency will come to an unremarkable conclusion. Perhaps sensing the ticking clock, and eager to leave his signature on at least one successful item of public p...
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has stated that Iran’s offer to tour nuclear facilities in the Gulf nation cannot be seen as a substitute for IAEA inspection. RFE/RL has a report on why Russia’s nuclear fuel bank ha...
According to the Moscow Times, Russia has been placed 143rd among the 183 countries on the Heritage Foundation’s annual economic freedom rating, with a score of 50.5, below the world average of 59.7. ‘Let’s admit that there...
TODAY: Tusk speaks out on crash report; Lavrov conveys solidarity with Poland; says no further nuclear reductions in immediate future; Russian anger at treatment of Bout’s wife; OSCE steps up pressure on Belarus; Gibbs vs ITAR-TASS; Murder c...
I’m not sure who said it first, but it’s often said that one of the key problems in the U.S.-Russia relationship is that both capitals see the other in decline (most explicitly illustrated by the Joe Biden). This perspective is a...
The Independent reports that oil has crept up to almost $99 a barrel, leading analysts to consider that the arrival of the ‘psychologically important’ $100 barrel is ‘only a matter of time’. Russian Foreign Minister S...
Bloomberg reports that Russia has been deemed the 10th-riskiest country for investors out of 196, sliding from 15th last year, in U.K risk-assessment company Maplecroft’s annual Political Risk Atlas. A new Kremlin decree preventing for...
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