Prime Minister Putin has announced that there will be ‘no export duties for new hydrocarbon development projects on the Russian shelf’. The President-elect hopes that new shelf projects will attract around $500 billion dollars to Russ...
Russia’s government has released income declarations for its top officials in 2011: President-elect Vladimir Putin and current President Dmitry Medvedev have declared incomes of $124,000 and $114,000 respectively. The richest Federation Cou...
TODAY: Shein reduces hunger strike as CEC pledges to examine Astrakhan evidence; Bout asks Moscow to sue the US; Russia refuses to grant special group status to homosexuals in G8 resolution. Don’t visit Georgia, says Foreign Ministry. Libe...
Astrakhan. Back in February we blogged about the difficulties of fostering support for the opposition movement in the Southern oil and gas town. This week headlines have spoken of the Volga city ‘electrifying’ the opposition, becomin...
Vladimir Putin has urged domestic energy producers to meet ‘the challenge’ of a changing energy market place as the US ramps up output of shale gas. The AP has a useful rundown of the uses, costs and major exporters of natural gas. H...
In his valedictory address as Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin has lamented that income disparity remains one of Russia’s principal problems. Putin recommended that the law requiring Russian government officials to disclose their incomes shou...
After reports emerged yesterday that the Druzhba pipeline was running dangerously low on supplies to the Czech Republic, oil-pipeline operator Transneft has assured customers that it is ready to provide all required crude supplies, in accordance w...
After reports emerged yesterday that the Druzhba pipeline was running dangerously low on supplies to the Czech Republic, oil-pipeline operator Transneft has assured customers that it is ready to provide all required crude supplies, in accordance w...
The Moscow Times reports that an exiled business partner of jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexei Spirichev, has been charged with tax evasion. Khodorkovsky is, according to Bloomberg, urging the US to impose a visa ban and freeze the...
The Moscow Times reports that an exiled business partner of jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexei Spirichev, has been charged with tax evasion. Khodorkovsky is, according to Bloomberg, urging the US to impose a visa ban and freeze the...
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