The Pipeline in a “Communal Apartment” By Grigory Pasko, journalist I set off from Travemünde to Helsinki on a Finnlines ferry boat. This ferry, I happened to notice, is used primarily by Russians who come to Germany to buy used cars, ship them up...
Many people are surprised to hear that the biggest opponent to Russia’s ascension to the World Trade Organization is not the United States, it is not a competing market in Europe, and it most certainly is not the plot of restless exiles. Rus...
From Masha Lipman on PostGlobal: As the two presidents meet at Kennebunkport, Bush is on a sharp decline, having completely failed to achieve what he proclaimed as his foreign policy mission. He has also largely squandered America’s moral authorit...
In the same week that Rosneft symbolically concludes the feeding frenzy on Yukos by acquiring the company’s 22-story Moscow headquarters from the shadowy front company, Prana, we are treated to the utterly surreal news that ratings agencies Fitch ...
Land at 50 Euros a Hectare The environmental aspects of the Nord Stream gas pipeline By Grigory Pasko, journalist Representatives of Nord Stream assure the public that nature-protection measures have been provided for, both at the stage of constru...
Today I was surprised to read the attached analysis of Gazprom’s South Eastern Europe strategy published by ISN – usually a trusted source of high quality intelligence. The researcher simply mentions Gazprom’s increased stakes in...
Somehow I think it’s going to take much more than a few lobster rolls to solve Kosovo and the missile shield, but this blog entry from NYT’s The Lede is entertaining: Tension? Critics? Food? A need for some comic relief? Sounds like a ...
From the new issue of the leftist journal Dissent, a highly debatable article from Frederico Varese. THE GRAPH THAT provides the best explanation of the Russian conundrum consists of three lines: the world oil price, the degree of democracy in Rus...
The Coordinators from EWN By Grigory Pasko, journalist Just a couple of kilometers outside Lubmin is an industrial center – that’s what the name is now for the 25-hectare site of the huge Nord nuclear power station, which was decommissioned 15 yea...
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