One of the more memorable Russia energy quotes I heard over the past year comes from the leader of Hungary’s opposition party, Viktor Orbán, who on the party’s 19th anniversary declared that “Those young people following us shoul...
Yesterday Robert Amsterdam gave a speech followed by a Q and A session at the World Affairs Council in San Francisco, California. An audio recording of the event can be heard here.
Serena Williams of the US hits a return against Ukraine’s Tatiana Perebiynis during their Kremlin Cup tennis match in Moscow, October 11, 2007. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA)) Russia’s Economic Development and Trade Ministry has suggeste...
This week I am in San Francisco, California for some meetings and speaking engagements on Russia-related issues. Among the people I have had the pleasure of meeting during this trip is Mr. John Kamm of the Dui Hua Foundation, an NGO dedicated towa...
A critical article published in yesterday’s Kommersant by Viktor Cherkesov, head of Russia’s Drug Enforcement Agency, is making some waves, exposing like never before the hostilities and turf wars between different state security facti...
Der Spiegel has an interesting interview today with Vladimir Yakunin, a close ally of Vladimir Putin and head of Russian Railways, who strikes a rather defensive posture vis-à-vis relations with the West, squarely placing the blame for the deterio...
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy in his Datcha at Novo-Ogarievo near Moscow. Sarkozy urged Russia to build democracy ahead of talks with Putin on resolving East-West tensions over Iran and K...
Below are several interviews from experts at last month’s Reuters Russia Investment Summit. Naturally, many of these business and investment figures featured in these interviews feel quite sanguine about the way things are going in Russia. H...
The good news: the Ukraine and Gazprom have reached an agreement on gas debt, thereby preventing another standoff like last year. The bad news: all of a sudden Gazprom says that they are owed $700 million more than the $1.3 billion debt they claim...
[Editor’s note: while this blog is ostensibly about Russian affairs, we also have a strong interest in global energy politics, and will be making an effort to occasionally branch out to discuss the impact of state-owned energy firms on the m...
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