Month: May 2011

May 18, 2011

BP’s Poor Judgment Led to its Russian Disaster

Last week in London, Robert Amsterdam hosted a breakfast seminar on resource nationalism in emerging markets.  Although the BP-Rosneft share swap had not yet completely disintegrated, the topic came up during the Q&A period.  One jou...
May 18, 2011

BP’s Poor Judgment Led to its Russian Disaster

Last week in London, Robert Amsterdam hosted a breakfast seminar on resource nationalism in emerging markets.  Although the BP-Rosneft share swap had not yet completely disintegrated, the topic came up during the Q&A period.  One jou...
May 18, 2011

Sochi First, Education Second

The Sochi Olympics is, it would seem, never far from controversy.  The recent set of scandalizing posters advertising housing in the Olympic complex might have lead one to imagine that Putin et al are using Berlin 1936 as the blue print for t...
May 18, 2011

Sochi First, Education Second

The Sochi Olympics is, it would seem, never far from controversy.  The recent set of scandalizing posters advertising housing in the Olympic complex might have lead one to imagine that Putin et al are using Berlin 1936 as the blue print for t...
May 18, 2011

Stage Managing the Election

As President Medvedev prepares to take center stage for the biggest Q and A he has ever held this afternoon, journalists are pondering whether the President will take the opportunity to divulge any details about his election strategy.  Medved...
May 18, 2011

Stage Managing the Election

As President Medvedev prepares to take center stage for the biggest Q and A he has ever held this afternoon, journalists are pondering whether the President will take the opportunity to divulge any details about his election strategy.  Medved...
May 18, 2011

Energy Blast – May 18, 2011

The media today is replete with grizzly details from the post-mortem of the BP-Rosneft deal; though the British major apparently retains hopes that the deal could at some future point be resurrected.  The Independent’s David Prosser arg...
May 18, 2011

Today in Russian Business – May 18, 2011

Russia’s privatization drive seems to have hit another rocky patch: Siberian Coal Energy Company will apparently postpone its planned initial public offering in London for a second time, which makes it the sixth IPO to be pulled.&n...
May 18, 2011

Today in Russian Business – May 18, 2011

Russia’s privatization drive seems to have hit another rocky patch: Siberian Coal Energy Company will apparently postpone its planned initial public offering in London for a second time, which makes it the sixth IPO to be pulled.&n...
May 18, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 18, 2011

TODAY: Medvedev to hold major press conference; election strategy to be revealed? Music critic faces up to two years in jail for Agata Kristi ‘poodle’ insult; gay rights march banned; Khodorkovsky demands criminal investigation into ju...