Roger Cornish, the Managing Director of Interconnector UK Ltd, a company which controls the pipeline supplying the United Kingdom with 25% of its natural gas, writes a letter to the FT to remind readers that Gazprom has already been a holder of Br...
Young people pretend to worship a giant election poster of the main pro-Kremlin party United Russia during their one minute-long flash mobbing event just outside the Moscow Kremlin, on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007. The poster reads: ‘Moscow votes f...
Seek not a repentant executioner – there is no such thing By Grigory Pasko, journalist Russia. The late 1600s. A gloomy, overcast morning. Standing next to the bloody scaffold is an executioner holding an axe in his right hand, bitterly wailing: “...
Not since the lead up to the Iraq War when Donald Rumsfeld divided “old” and “new” Europe like a sledgehammer, has the EU faced a more divisive challenge than that of Russia. Such is the point of departure for a very valuable new report published ...
Vladimir Pribylovsky tells RFE/RF that the two murders by poisoning Konstantin Druzenko and Sergei Lomako are part of the spy wars between Viktor Cherkesov and Igor Sechin: “This is connected. … I have few doubts that this happened in ...
How much would it be worth to you? One U.S. couple dropped $160,000 for a dinner of “cabbage, herring and vodka” with the former Soviet leader. The charity money will go towards to children’s hospitals in Moscow.
Last night the voting wrapped up for the 2007 Weblog Awards, and perhaps as expected, the miracle did not occur for this blog to cover the considerable gap for victory. The crown for Best European Blog (Non UK) goes to the accomplished folks over ...
Today we received the following press release from WorldPublicOpinion.org which reports on a new poll from the University of Maryland that finds that large majorities of both Russian and American citizens favor drastically cutting back on nuclear ...
Petrobras’ latest oil find transforms Brazil’s upstream prospects By Tom Nicholls, journalist Brazil’s Petrobras claims to have discovered a new oil province – “comparable to the most important oil provinces in the world”. It says the discovery – ...
On Oct. 25, French philosopher and renowned political commentator André Glucksmann published an article in Le Monde of great importance to us entitled “Sakharov-Khodorkovsky: Same Fight.” Then on Oct. 29, we were pleased to have Mr. Gl...
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