Biden’s Blind Eye
US Vice President Joe Biden’s praise of President Dmitry Medvedev for his ‘personal leadership‘ really makes it look as though a new leaf has been turned over in the book of US-Russia relations. Biden’s words, of...
Month: March 2011
Energy Blast – March 10, 2011
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has apparently ordered Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko to build a plant that could transform natural gas into a form in which it could be transported via tanker. Would such a plan make the South Stream pipeline o...
Energy Blast – March 10, 2011
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has apparently ordered Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko to build a plant that could transform natural gas into a form in which it could be transported via tanker. Would such a plan make the South Stream pipeline o...
Today in Russian Business – March 10, 2011
The number of billionaires in Russia, China, and Brazil has increased since last year, according to data compiled from Forbes’ latest rich list (click here for Forbes’ billionaires page). RFE/RL analyzes the Russian contingent, pointin...
Today in Russian Business – March 10, 2011
The number of billionaires in Russia, China, and Brazil has increased since last year, according to data compiled from Forbes’ latest rich list (click here for Forbes’ billionaires page). RFE/RL analyzes the Russian contingent, pointin...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 10, 2011
TODAY: Biden in Moscow for continuing ‘reset’ talks, praises Medvedev’s ‘personal leadership’, Putin wants visa-free US-Russia travel; Egiazaryan may seek US asylum; Putin charity concert scandal continues; ...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 10, 2011
TODAY: Biden in Moscow for continuing ‘reset’ talks, praises Medvedev’s ‘personal leadership’, Putin wants visa-free US-Russia travel; Egiazaryan may seek US asylum; Putin charity concert scandal continues; ...
Grigory Pasko: Putin’s Peak
I wouldn’t be the first one to point out the absurdity of the Kyrgyz government’s decision to name a mountain peak after his holiness Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, but given that the U.S. State Department just happened to pass along an...
Grigory Pasko: Putin’s Peak
I wouldn’t be the first one to point out the absurdity of the Kyrgyz government’s decision to name a mountain peak after his holiness Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, but given that the U.S. State Department just happened to pass along an...
Russia Perfects the Art of Corporate Raiding
Looking back on the Kremlin’s decidedly clumsy and messy theft of the Yukos oil company in ’04 (nobody thought it might look bad to sell half of the largest oil production to the unknown Baikalfinansgroup, which registered an address a...
