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October 20, 2011

Energy Blast – Oct 20, 2011

According to the Washington Post, energy-rich Turkmenistan has accused Russia of attempting to sabotage its efforts to create a gas supply route to Europe via a new trans-Caspian pipeline.  Moscow has warned that the pipeline should not go ahead u...
October 20, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Oct 20, 2011

‘[W]e can live without it’: President Medvedev expresses a certain ambivalence about the prospect of long-negotiated WTO membership.  In a video interview on Bloomberg, chief strategist at Troika Dialog Chris Weafer suggests that acces...
October 20, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Oct 20, 2011

TODAY: Putin exhorts Ukraine to join customs union; discusses liberalism with TV chiefs; Medvedev promises fair election, lambasts red tape; CEC chief on Magnitsky blacklist.  PETA activist protest stopped by police; defamation case against Troitk...
October 20, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Oct 20, 2011

TODAY: Putin exhorts Ukraine to join customs union; discusses liberalism with TV chiefs; Medvedev promises fair election, lambasts red tape; CEC chief on Magnitsky blacklist.  PETA activist protest stopped by police; defamation case against Troitk...
October 19, 2011

Grigory Pasko: When Rusian Soldiers Pose as Journalists

A few weeks ago Russian television viewers were treated to a live broadcast of a visit to the Chebarkul training ground in the Chelyabinskii Region by none other than the Minister of Defence Anatoliy Serdyukov and President and Supreme Commander D...
October 19, 2011

Putin Loses a Supporter

Once upon a time, many years ago (actually, it was April 2006), I participated in a debate on Russia’s energy empire organized by The Economist and The Stockholm Network along with Sebestyn Gorka, Prof. Margot Light, and Dr. Vlad Sobell.  I ...
October 19, 2011

Putin Loses a Supporter

Once upon a time, many years ago (actually, it was April 2006), I participated in a debate on Russia’s energy empire organized by The Economist and The Stockholm Network along with Sebestyn Gorka, Prof. Margot Light, and Dr. Vlad Sobell.  I ...
October 19, 2011

Investors: Think About Commodities

It’s not a new idea in any sense, but it continues to hold a lot of weight whilst the Kremlin refuses to acknowledge that their current economic ‘policies’ are little more than shopping lists attached to petrodollars.  The resounding cry is that R...
October 19, 2011

Energy Blast – Oct 19, 2011

Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Shatalov is opposed to exempting Gazprom from transfer-pricing rules next year, which could leave the company open to fines for non-market transactions.  Turkmenistan supports EU plans to create a trans-Caspi...
October 19, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Oct 19, 2011

Chinese activity in Russian business, in terms of building and owning assets, has seen a marked increase even just this month since Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit, but non-government-backed projects are also on the rise.  The Finance Minist...