Thanks to a variety of rather unpopular policies of the current U.S. government (not to mention the Iraq war, Guantanamo, and Abu Graib), anti-Americanism has become a hot political commodity abroad, and a useful invective for any politician to se...
An area twice the size of France, loaded with an estimated quarter of the world’s oil and gas deposits (which are becoming increasingly feasible to access as global warming causes the ice caps to melt) as well as other minerals such as gold ...
As we reported on the blog yesterday, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is in the middle of a considerably unpleasant energy dispute with Vladimir Putin and Gazprom. Some observers argued that Lukashenko would either have to 1) seek help from Europe...
A German Approach and a Russian Slogan By Grigory Pasko, journalist When I first met with Energiewerke Nord GmbH (EWN) director Dieter Rittscher in June of this year, he reported that his company is taking part in the process of the dismantling of...
On July 24, 2007, the Helsinki Commission of the United States Congress held a hearing entitled “Energy and Democracy: Oil and Water?” which featured witness testimony from experts on energy security. Although I was not able to attend ...
Russia to Belarus: No gas for you! [Dear readers, my apologies for the quiet day – it’s summer and I’m taking some time with my family, so please bear with me. – Bob Amsterdam] For as much complaining as Russia does about t...
From Quentin Peel in the Financial Times: The worry is that Russia may have just exchanged one set of gangsters for another – the siloviki surrounding Mr Putin. “If some of them take money, tomorrow they will think how to protect the money they ha...
Below is a press statement from Robert Amsterdam distributed via wire today in regards to the allegedly forced sale of Russneft. The statement can also be read on MarketWatch, AOL Money News, and Yahoo!. …. Oil Company Takeover by RUSAL Owne...
I highly recommend that readers check out this memoir excerpt from David Satter, a correspondent for the FT in Russia from 1976 to 1982, posted on the Weekly Standard. Satter relates an amusing story of a bait-and-switch interview he conducted wit...
As the Kremlin is apparently already expecting to receive complaints of irregularity in the upcoming parliamentary elections, it is acting preemptively to lay the groundwork to deny the legitimacy of any such claims. State Duma International Affai...
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