Month: July 2011

July 5, 2011

Corruption Touches Every Aspect of Life

Two new BBC Radio 4 programs, hosted by Edward Stourton on the subject of corruption’s wide social reach in Russia’s regions, make for fascinating listening, thanks to their broad range of interviewees and case studies that will shock ...
July 5, 2011

Corruption Touches Every Aspect of Life

Two new BBC Radio 4 programs, hosted by Edward Stourton on the subject of corruption’s wide social reach in Russia’s regions, make for fascinating listening, thanks to their broad range of interviewees and case studies that will shock ...
July 5, 2011

Energy Blast – July 5, 2011

Gazprom has sent a delegation to North Korea to discuss pipe and power line projects, the scene having been set for negotiations by a visit from Foreign Intelligence Service director Mikhail Fradkov in May.  Gazprom’s search for gas in ...
July 5, 2011

Energy Blast – July 5, 2011

Gazprom has sent a delegation to North Korea to discuss pipe and power line projects, the scene having been set for negotiations by a visit from Foreign Intelligence Service director Mikhail Fradkov in May.  Gazprom’s search for gas in ...
July 5, 2011

Today in Russian Business – July 5, 2011

16% of the Russian population officially live below the poverty line.  The FT reports on the paradox of frozen wages and creeping inflation.  VTB is embarking on a series of roadshows in London and New York to ease concerns about it...
July 5, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – July 5, 2011

TODAY: Investigators rule against prison doctors in Magnitsky case, activists want officials to be held responsible, Netherlands rules in support of ban on case-related officials; Moscow slams NATO on Libya; Chirikova profile; Vkontakte reveals IP...
July 5, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – July 5, 2011

TODAY: Investigators rule against prison doctors in Magnitsky case, activists want officials to be held responsible, Netherlands rules in support of ban on case-related officials; Moscow slams NATO on Libya; Chirikova profile; Vkontakte reveals IP...
July 4, 2011

Integrated & Turning Away: Russia’s Janus-face

Authoritarian regime?  What authoritarian regime?  Academic (and great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev) Nina Khrushcheva puts a clever spin on Russia’s ‘Janus-faced‘ foreign policy in the S...
July 4, 2011

FT Interview: Maxim Barsky

The FT has published its interview with Maxim Barsky, who joined TNK-BP last year to take up what Robert Dudley called ‘the most difficult job in the world‘, tasked with the challenge of reducing the company’s bureaucracy and ref...
July 4, 2011

Energy Blast – July 4, 2011

Russian armed forces are planning to create two brigades to protect Arctic resources ‘firmly and consistently‘.  Mongolia’s Tavan Tolgoi coking coal deposit, thought to be the world’s largest, will be jointly developed...