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January 26, 2012

Energy Blast – Jan 26, 2012

Lukoil’s Neftochim refinery in Bulgaria has invested $1.5 billion in a large hydrocracking catalyst installation to process petroleum waste – worth about 10% of Lukoil’s next decade of investment projects.  The cash goes to Italian company T...
January 26, 2012

Today in Russian Business – Jan 26, 2012

Without mentioning the Jackon-Vanik amendment explicitly, U.S. President Barack Obama has called on lawmakers to approve permanent normal trade relations with Russia, with Michael McFaul indicating afterwards that it will be repealed.  The First D...
January 26, 2012

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 26, 2012

TODAY: Moscow agrees to protest rally, opposition reject proposed route; Putin rails against U.S.; election observers plan their moves; draft law to ban ‘extremists’ from teaching; presidential candidate list finalised; Medvedev Q&A at Moscow ...
January 25, 2012

Energy Blast – Jan 25, 2012

Vladimir Putin has pledged $8 billion in development aid for the coal industry.  The majority of 70 legal cases held in Russia against oil companies in the wake of the fuel supply crisis last year were won – and TNK-BP could be fined up to $...
January 25, 2012

Energy Blast – Jan 25, 2012

Vladimir Putin has pledged $8 billion in development aid for the coal industry.  The majority of 70 legal cases held in Russia against oil companies in the wake of the fuel supply crisis last year were won – and TNK-BP could be fined up to $...
January 25, 2012

Today in Russian Business – Jan 25, 2012

Corporate law firms are actively seeking out foreign companies based in Russia in a bid to help them win back tax money amid claims of ‘tax discrimination’.  Russia needs more qualified workers: ‘No matter how well we organize our demographic poli...
January 25, 2012

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

TODAY: Yavlinsky to be disqualified from presidential race, Kudrin offers to consolidate forces with him; Medvedev’s bill crumbling; Prokhorov profiled; Sobyanin officially in charge of demonstration requests; opposition plans second February marc...
January 25, 2012

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

TODAY: Yavlinsky to be disqualified from presidential race, Kudrin offers to consolidate forces with him; Medvedev’s bill crumbling; Prokhorov profiled; Sobyanin officially in charge of demonstration requests; opposition plans second February marc...
January 24, 2012

Russian Thinkers

My friend David Satter has come out with a terrific new book entitled It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past – recommended reading for anyone who follows Russia.  Here, in the Montreal Review, he ...
January 24, 2012

Russian Thinkers

My friend David Satter has come out with a terrific new book entitled It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past – recommended reading for anyone who follows Russia.  Here, in the Montreal Review, he ...