Photo: AFP My well-informed contacts in Moscow have reported to me that a palpable sense of panic is sweeping many government ministries in Russia these days. It seems clear that the master plan for President Putin’s succession remains a very tigh...
Below is a letter to the editor published in the International Herald Tribune in response to a recent Serge Schmemann opinion article. Putin’s dubious ‘popularity’ Serge Schmemann’s article “A visit with Putin” ...
Today the Guardian has published a letter from Robert Amsterdam in response to Jonathan Steele’s opinion article “Putin’s legacy is a Russia that doesn’t have to curry favour with the west,” published Tuesday, Sept. 1...
On Sept. 13, 2007, the Italian business paper Libero Mercato published a profile interview with Robert Amsterdam. Below is a rush translation – a full original PDF copy can be downloaded here in Italian. THE LIBERO MERCATO INTERVIEW: ROBERT ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov seen at the investment forum in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia, Friday, Sept. 21, 2007. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential P...
Roman Emperor Caligula once paraded his favorite racing horse through Senate to make his deputies bow to the animal, and is rumored to have considered nominating the horse for a seat. An amusing story has been making its way around the blogosphere...
Does the new EU package of energy policies really have any teeth? The Wall Street Journal doesn’t think so, and argues that the open loophole to escape unbundling by appointing Independent System Operators (ISO) to manage gas and electricity...
Russia’s new premier Viktor Zubkov gave quite the performance during his first address to the Duma this week, striking a notably disciplinarian tone (some papers called it a “Soviet streak“) so as to leave little doubt of his new...
The FT makes their case for energy regulation, arguing that Gazprom needs to prove it can play by the rules in Europe to be treated as a normal commercial partner. Financial Times: Blocking Gazprom Twice this week, European Union institutions have...
Brussels is getting bold. But will it work? By Derek Brower, journalist THE EUROPEAN Commission’s third package on energy liberalisation, released in Brussels yesterday, made an implicit threat to Gazprom’s ambitions to expand across the continent...
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