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April 25, 2012

Energy Blast – April 25, 2012

Hungary’s hopes to cooperate with Gazprom on the South Stream transit route may have dealt the Europe-backed Nabucco pipeline a ‘terminal blow’, says Bloomberg.  In April Gazprom’s gas exports to Europe, its key source of r...
April 25, 2012

Energy Blast – April 25, 2012

Hungary’s hopes to cooperate with Gazprom on the South Stream transit route may have dealt the Europe-backed Nabucco pipeline a ‘terminal blow’, says Bloomberg.  In April Gazprom’s gas exports to Europe, its key source of r...
April 25, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 25, 2012

TODAY: Putin quits United Russia; positions Medvedev for the job.  The President promises reforms; opposition are ‘zeroes’ says Putin spokesman; Shein ceases hunger strike; education reform protest; anti-sex law; the failure of Russia&...
April 24, 2012

Energy Blast – April 24, 2012

The Hungarian Prime Minister says the Nabucco oil pipeline is in trouble, and that MOL will pull out of the project due to ‘many uncertainties that would be hard to ignore’.  The oil spill at the Bashneft/Lukoil Trebs and Titov field is estimated ...
April 24, 2012

Today in Russian Business – April 24, 2012

Roza Khutor’s construction works for the 2014 Sochi Olympics are on hold after Vneshekonombank withheld $3.6 billion in promised loans.  The Finance Ministry has announced plans to contribute $10 billion to the IMF.  It looks increasingly unlikely...
April 23, 2012

Praying For Change

As up to 65,000 of Moscow’s pious prayed for the protection of the Russian Orthodox Church on the weekend, Kremlin critic and music journalist Artemy Troitsky was penning a sermon of his own.  ‘I am just as unsure about who is to blame...
April 23, 2012

Today in Russian Business – April 23, 2012

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has told the press that Russia’s state budget deficit forecast for 2012 has been lowered to 0.3% of GDP from an earlier estimated 1.5% of GDP, due to higher prices for oil and increased tax revenue.  Decentralizatio...
April 23, 2012

Today in Russian Business – April 23, 2012

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has told the press that Russia’s state budget deficit forecast for 2012 has been lowered to 0.3% of GDP from an earlier estimated 1.5% of GDP, due to higher prices for oil and increased tax revenue.  Decentralizatio...
April 20, 2012

Energy Blast – April 20, 2012

Swiftly following BP’s announcement that it will pay out $8 billion for polluting beaches in the Gulf of Mexico, Russia’s Natural Resources and Ecology Minister Yuri Trutnev has threatened TNK-BP that the ministry will seek damages fro...
April 20, 2012

Energy Blast – April 20, 2012

Swiftly following BP’s announcement that it will pay out $8 billion for polluting beaches in the Gulf of Mexico, Russia’s Natural Resources and Ecology Minister Yuri Trutnev has threatened TNK-BP that the ministry will seek damages fro...