Video: Total’s Russia Deal
Here is a video news clip on the Shtokman Field announcement.
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The Secret Pact
How did Total, which has relatively less experience with arctic drilling, get selected as Gazprom’s first partner on the Shtokman Field? The current speculation is that new French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a secret deal with Vladimir Pu...
Nemtsov: The Luckiest Man in the World
Today in the Moscow Times, Boris Nemtsov has a scathing op/ed arguing that Russia’s approval of the president is mostly based on high commodity prices – just luck. Nemtsov, who is a founder of the Union of Right Forces, originally publ...
Kuznetsov: Lawyers Are the Last Bastion Before Russian Lawlessness
Svetlana Bakhmina, Karinna Moskalenko, and myself are certainly not the only lawyers to fall victim to the threats and harassment of the Russian procuracy-general and its increasing willingness to persecute lawyers for simply doing their jobs. Tod...
Rewriting Russian History: In Search of a “Short Course”
After having blogged a bit about the new history textbook scandal in Russia, I decided to get some of the more interesting articles out there translated. The following is the first of two exclusive translations of stories by Oleg Kashin at Nezavis...
Finnish-Russian Civic Forum
Today David McDuff has a post up about the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum, where our correspondent Grigory Pasko was a featured speaker (Robert Amsterdam was also in attendence). McDuff includes a link to the program of events.
Of Respect and Belligerence
From the Financial Times: Mr Miliband’s package is about the minimum the British government could countenance given Moscow’s disregard for the evidence amassed against Mr Lugovoi. In the short term, it is likely to attract nothing save Russian ret...
The United Kingdom Sets a New Standard for Dealing with Russia
Gordon Brown’s first meeting as prime minister with Angela Merkel is overshadowed by the showdown with Russia. Moscow shouldn’t underestimate Brown’s desire to prove his new government’s mettle – no one likes to begin...
Russia Pulls Out of Arms Treaty
No one seems to be at all concerned about the security ramifications of Russia pulling out of the conventional arms treaty of 1990s this past weekend, but it is a worrying indication of the country’s precarious stability that such grandiose ...
Russia to Slake China’s Thirst for Oil from Eastern Siberia
Meet the new ESPO pipeline, otherwise known as the Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean project, through which Russia has announced it will send upwards of 15 million tonnes per year (with a capacity of 30 tonnes) to China and other markets in As...
