From an interesting article by Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post about Anatoly Karachinsky and Arkady Volozh, Russia’s two most successful technology entrepreneurs: But several factors conspired to create a slow start for the Russian ...
A new study of satellite images by the NOAA shows that in 2006 Russia surpassed Nigeria to become the world’s most prolific gas flarer. “Flaring” is a process by which unusable or excess natural gas is released by a pressure valv...
A quote by Robert Amsterdam taken from this blog appeared in the Guardian today in regards to always-lively Hungarian-Austrian energy politics. Guardian: The Austro-Hungarian empire cannot be revived While Sarko is chasing around France and, now, ...
Into the Pipe or Down the Drain? Some questions about the promised transparency By Grigory Pasko, journalist [editor’s note – this is Pasko’s final installment of the Nord Stream series – an index of all the articles can be...
Today I came across this 45-minute documentary of the Dissenter’s March in St. Petersburg from March, 2007. Unfortunately the translations are frequently unintelligible, but the footage is still interesting.
An article published in Prospect magazine’s July issue. Click here to download the full PDF of the article. After Russia cut supplies to Ukraine in 2006, the EU decided it needed to reduce its dependence on Russian gas. But since then, a ser...
Timothey Noah at Slate takes an interesting look at the NOPEC Bill in U.S. Congress, which although it is unlikely to go anywhere, does raise interesting issues of anti-trust law and sovereign immunity. The American legal system’s bizarre to...
What Shell’s deal with Rosneft says about the oil world’s balance of power By Derek Brower, journalist AS A beaten dog loves his master, so Shell loves Russia. However else does one explain the company’s attitude towards the authorities in Moscow?...
Today the Moscow Times is carrying a very important report on the Kremlin’s efforts to impose a certain historical interpretation in the nation’s school textbooks – including an opening chapter on sovereign democracy (which is an...
This fall, the American icon Campbell Soup Company will be making its first foray into the Russian and Chinese consumer markets, starting off by selling Domashnaya Klassika (available in chicken, beef, and mushroom broth) in Moscow. Like many reta...
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