Month: March 2011

March 25, 2011

BP/Rosneft: Dudley Takes the Rap

So, Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR), the Russian shareholders in TNK-BP, have got their wish, after it was announced that an arbitration panel in Stockholm voted to block BP from forming an alliance with Rosneft.  Or have they?  If Deputy Prime...
March 25, 2011

Energy Blast – March 25, 2011

An arbitration panel in Stockholm has blocked BP’s $16 billion share swap and Arctic exploration deal with Rosneft, handing ‘a major victory‘ to TNK-BP, whose Alfa-Access-Renova shareholders have been fighting the deal since it w...
March 25, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 25, 2011

Russian stocks are at their most expensive since 2008, thanks to the high price of oil, although Bloomberg’s data suggests that ‘Russian companies are spending more of their revenue on capital investments than any other emerging market...
March 25, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 25, 2011

TODAY: Other Russia member threatened by authorities; Medvedev says progress on Kashin case; BBC’s Russia service ends today; perestroika-era newspaper to return; metro chief investigation; Putin’s approval rating drops; Obama supports...
March 24, 2011

International Law and the Libya Intervention

The whirlwind process by which the international community, ranging from the Arab League, European Union, and, most critically, the United Nations, laid the legal foundations approving the military intervention in Libya is nothing short of breatht...
March 24, 2011

Grigory Pasko: Questions to Rouse Russians from Apathy

Against the background of the seemingly unending revolutionary uprisings across the Arab world, the nervous reaction of the Kremlin to these events have become particularly noticeable. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском язы...
March 24, 2011

Energy Blast – March 24, 2011

Reuters has summarized global government responses to nuclear safety issues since Japan’s Fukushima disaster, including Russia’s Turkish and Bangladeshi projects in its list.  Extra supplies of LNG sent to Japan will not divert ga...
March 24, 2011

Today in Russian Business – March 24, 2011

‘Now anyone can participate in a tender irrespective of whether it is paper clips or a sophisticated construction project. The law allows anyone to participate. The one who offers the best price and the best conditions will win.‘  ...
March 24, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 24, 2011

TODAY: Putin’s journalist foe is beaten; Gates finds Putin curious; Duma votes overwhelmingly for Libya ceasefire; human bots and ‘extremism’-monitoring software; Belarus and Kyrgyzstan need Russia; new law will limit independent...
March 23, 2011

Can EU Say ‘No’ to Gazprom the Great?

Russia is positively gigantic in the energy news today, dominating headlines as crises in Japan and Libya allow it to step forward as the country that has all the answers, or at least, all of the supplies.  Solidifying its image as a rel...