Month: March 2011

March 9, 2011

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...
March 9, 2011

Energy Blast – March 9, 2011

Head of BP Robert Dudley has called for a change in the oil industry to ensure that deepwater oil spills like the one at the Macondo well never occur again, although industry heavyweights blame BP more specifically for the spill, with the head of ...
March 9, 2011

Energy Blast – March 9, 2011

Head of BP Robert Dudley has called for a change in the oil industry to ensure that deepwater oil spills like the one at the Macondo well never occur again, although industry heavyweights blame BP more specifically for the spill, with the head of ...
March 9, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 9, 2011

Ashot Yegiazaryan publicly defends himself in the Moscow Times today against allegations of embezzlement, made, he says, in retaliation for his own contesting of ‘the theft of my stake in the Moskva Hotel through a conspiracy‘, and dis...
March 9, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 9, 2011

TODAY: US VP in Russia for reset talks; any no-fly zone plans for Libya must be UN-led, says Clinton, as Russia sends humanitarian aid; United Russia call for tougher anti-extremism laws; Medvedev bans minimal prison sentences for some crimes; Rus...
March 8, 2011

Putin’s Female Philosophy

Taking a leaf out of Kant’s aesthetic position (the 18th century German philosopher counted women among the world’s beautiful objects, and is there not a striking resemblance between the two?), ITAR-TASS today portrays Vladimir Putin, ...
March 8, 2011

Putin’s Female Philosophy

Taking a leaf out of Kant’s aesthetic position (the 18th century German philosopher counted women among the world’s beautiful objects, and is there not a striking resemblance between the two?), ITAR-TASS today portrays Vladimir Putin, ...
March 8, 2011

Energy Blast – March 8, 2011

High global energy prices caused by instability in the Middle East are allowing Russia to ‘reap a windfall‘: its currency is rising against the dollar faster than any other, and stocks are ‘buoyant‘.  As the cost of th...
March 8, 2011

Energy Blast – March 8, 2011

High global energy prices caused by instability in the Middle East are allowing Russia to ‘reap a windfall‘: its currency is rising against the dollar faster than any other, and stocks are ‘buoyant‘.  As the cost of th...
March 8, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 8, 2011

Japan’s planned stealth fighter, to be in the air by 2014, is looking to rival those of the US, China and Russia, says the New York Times.  Reuters reports on companies planning to float on the London Stock Exchange: “The UK ...