Portovaya Bay – a piece of nature still unspoiled By Grigory Pasko, journalist The starting point for the undersea portion of the North European Gas Pipeline will become a coastal compressor station, which will be built in Portovaya Bay (next to t...
Watching the wrath of the Kremlin unfold against the harmless hedge fund manager William Browder is regrettably a familiar sight to me. Congratulations, You’ve been Yukos-ed! William Browder, the most unlikely martyr of Russian state corporatism W...
From left: Moldova’s Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Georgia’s President Mikhael Saakashvili, Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev during the summit of GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) in ...
My regular readers are well familiar with the Russian state’s methodology to extort energy assets under thin legal and regulatory precedents. After the dismemberment of Yukos, the beating on Royal Dutch Shell, and what looks like a ritual hu...
Former New York Times and Wall Street Journal reporter Steve LeVine has an interesting video up to pitch his upcoming book “The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea.” The book won’t be available...
It seems that Tony Hayward, the new chief executive of British Petroleum, does not respect your intelligence. What, me worry? He was quoted by several news stories circulating today regarding BP’s “upbeat” attitude in Russia desp...
Today the Financial Times is running a rather laudatory executive interview with Fulvio Conti, who heads up the Italian energy group Enel. The majority of the interview is dedicated to a discussion of what is considered to be Enel’s greatest...
Whatever They Demand of Us, We Do By Grigory Pasko, journalist A compressor station (KC in Russian) can be regarded as something like the brain of a gas pipeline. Here are found the most important services: line-operation, gas compressor, electric...
Netzwerk Recherche, a German journalists’ association, has awarded Putin the “Closed Oyster Prize” for his remarkable unwillingness to openly respond to media questions and his record on freedom of speech. It’s no surprise ...
From the Moscow Times: Khodorkovsky to Be Sent to Moscow The Moscow Times Moscow City Court upheld on Monday a decision to transfer Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky from an east Siberian prison to Moscow amid an investigation into new theft and ...
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