Today the Economist reports on the arrest in Austria and subsequent extradition request for Rakhat Aliyev, the son-in-law of the president of Kazakhstan. Underneath the numerous layers of political intrigue, family in-fighting, drastic consolidati...
It looks like BP might get nipped by the Russian bear at Kovykta From the Independent: Energy regulation: Exit, pursued by a Russian bear? Kovykta, he [Putin] said, had reserves of 3 trillion cubic metres, equal to almost all the natural gas reser...
Although a Google News search for “russia missile” turns up 8,324 articles, I’m prepared to hand out the award for best headline to the always acerbic copyeditors of STRATFOR: “Putin Tells Bush Where to Put His Missile Defe...
Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs, explains the Russian view of the Pol-Czech Missile Crisis: When Putin criticises the US aggressively over its anti-missile system plans, I can imagine the faces of China’s leaders, sitting...
Joel Brenner, the man in charge of U.S. counterintelligence efforts, was featured in an interesting interview with NPR yesterday – which can now be heard here. Brenner says that espionage has returned to Cold War levels, and that the Russian...
For TNK-BP, it’s much worse By Derek Brower, journalist IT SEEMS TNK-BP will have to wait another few days, possibly until after the St Petersburg Economic Forum this weekend, to learn the fate of its Kovykta gasfield in Siberia. TNK-BP is l...
Here is a short newsclip from CNN reporting on the U.S.-Russia tensions at the G8, where the general and reasonable message from both sides is “calm down, everybody.” The clip contains a interesting, short interview with the Kremlin sp...
Perhaps a coincidence, perhaps symbolic, Vladimir Putin is positioned on the right-hand side of Angela Merkel over and over at the G8 Summit, reinforcing Germany’s important role as the West’s key interlocutor with Moscow.
Today the FT reported that the United Kingdom’s Home Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) has stepped up its warnings to British businesses about the increased risks of investing in Russia, saying that the “challenges of market ent...
Just in case the RZB money laundering scandal with Russia weren’t enough drama for the ethically upright Austrians, another mess from a foreign country has landed at their doorstep. Rakhat Aliyev, the son-in-law of the president of Kazakhsta...
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