It was no secret that Gazprom’s biggest investment bait in the Barents Sea was riddled with problems and challenges, but the latest Wikileaks revelations in Norway show that even partner Statoil has serious reservations over the political ri...
Say what you will about Vladimir Putin’s extravagantly stage-managed photo ops, but variety is certainly not an issue. For this year’s Orthodox Christmas services, he strikes a favorite populist trope we haven’t seen in som...
The New York Times reports that a US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks describes energy giant Gazprom as riddled with iniquities and is ‘inefficient, politically driven, and corrupt’. Australia’s coal industry may face...
Chrystia Freeland in the New York Times has a probing look at how the Khodorkovsky trial has effected investor decision-making: ‘I haven’t talked to one corporation that used the Khodorkovsky trial, as opposed to corruption more genera...
TODAY: Russia blasts US for criticisms of dissent crackdown; another two dozen detained as protests continue; Ilya Yashin released. Tupolev-154s to be grounded? Amendments for START; icebreakers continue rescue efforts; winning hockey ...
Judah Grunstein has a good piece in World Politics Review arguing that Turkey, rather than Iran, comes out as the biggest winner from the Iraq war debacle. However it is the degree to which Ankara comes into conflict with Moscow over regiona...
Owen Matthews has an interesting article on Yuri Milner of Digital Sky Technologies – Facebook investor, former Khodorkovsky employee, and the new face of modern Russian business. Click here to read our last posting on him. You ...
Western diplomats have reportedly advised that the European Union, Russia and China should reject Iran’s invitation to visit its nuclear facilities, as that would undermine the role of the UN’s nuclear watchdog. According to a ne...
Bloomberg reports that a reduction in Russia’s budget deficit which decreases the economy’s vulnerability to vicissitudes in oil prices and a drop in inflation could put ‘upward pressure‘ on its sovereign credit rating.&nbs...
TODAY: Protests against jail time for Nemtsov dispersed, more activists arrested; US senators add to chorus of disapproval; the single person picket phenomenon; ‘creeping censorship’. Medvedev to visit Palestinian territories; Po...
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