Our friends over at Global Witness have posted a Channel Four report from last year about the shady backroom deals that brought closure to Ukraine-Russia natural gas dispute. The company in question, RosUkrEnergo, a Switzerland-based front company...
Yesterday’s news of the reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the breakaway Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) not only represents a major historical milestone in Russian society – the end of a 90-year-o...
Simon Tisdall made mention of a briefing note released a few days ago on the EU-Russia Summit prepared by Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform. The full 11-page PDF can be downloaded here, and below I include some interesting excerpts...
Belarus took a beating from Gazprom both on the ice and through the pipes. (Photo from IIHF World Championship, not Gazprom match referred to in the article). From Time Magazine: Heavy Hitter By Yuri Zarakhovich / Moscow Passions were riding high ...
Simon Tisdall of the Guardian has a column today on the Samara Summit, examining the challenge Europe is facing from Russia in diversifying its energy relations. He argues that Russia is winning this grand game in part because Moscow is not at all...
Following Robert Amsterdam’s speech at Harvard, the university newspaper is running the following story. Comments made by RA during the speech were also mentioned in a Boston Globe editorial, and a cover story from the weekly Boston NOW. Rob...
From the new Economist, a few excerpts below… (the artwork summarizes the jist of the article). Art: Peter Schrank, Economist Few things give Russians as much sense of their own importance as a spat with America. “They like to counter Americ...
Here is an +10 minute AlJazeera English news report on this week’s EU-Russia Summit, including interviews with Oksana Antonenko of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Dmitri Suslov of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy,...
Yesterday I had a speaking engagement at the Energy Risk USA 2007 conference in Houston, Texas. My brief talk was entitled “The New Calculus of Political Risk,” and focused on how rule of law, property rights, and democracy are damaged...
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