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September 7, 2011

Energy Blast – Sept 7, 2011

After a ropey August, Russia needs the 1,200 km Nord Stream pipeline, which has just become operational, says the Washington Post.  The fact that it bypasses sparring partner Ukraine will be a relief for Western European consumers, argues this art...
September 7, 2011

Energy Blast – Sept 7, 2011

After a ropey August, Russia needs the 1,200 km Nord Stream pipeline, which has just become operational, says the Washington Post.  The fact that it bypasses sparring partner Ukraine will be a relief for Western European consumers, argues this art...
September 7, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Sept 7, 2011

Inteko, the lucrative real estate firm of Yelena Baturina, wife of Yury Luzhkov, the former Moscow mayor, has been bought by Sberbank and Mikhail Shishkhanov, the owner of Binbank, at 5% and 95% respectively.  Yum Brands’ restaurant chain KF...
September 7, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Sept 7, 2011

TODAY: Magnitsky relatives plea for tax evasion case closure; Nurgaliyev takes tough stance on police implicated in lawyer’s death; the Russian tradition of prison correspondence; state Duma kicks off fall session noisily.  Medvedev – ...
September 7, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Sept 7, 2011

TODAY: Magnitsky relatives plea for tax evasion case closure; Nurgaliyev takes tough stance on police implicated in lawyer’s death; the Russian tradition of prison correspondence; state Duma kicks off fall session noisily.  Medvedev – ...
September 6, 2011

Opposition Dream Teams

Just because it’s fun to conjecture about a parallel universe in which Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Igor Sechin, Alexei Kudrin et al are not manning the controls of the Kremlin, here are a couple of enticing, if improbable, alternative c...
September 6, 2011

Opposition Dream Teams

Just because it’s fun to conjecture about a parallel universe in which Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Igor Sechin, Alexei Kudrin et al are not manning the controls of the Kremlin, here are a couple of enticing, if improbable, alternative c...
September 6, 2011

Energy Blast – Sept 6, 2011

Whilst Ukraine has apparently prepared documents for filing a suit in court of arbitration to resolve the gas dispute, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has rejected the notion of a ‘gas war’ with Russia and reassured consumers that supplie...
September 6, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Sept 6, 2011

A sanguine Vladimir Putin has told a regional conference that he expects Russia’s GDP to grow 4.2-4.3% this year.   According to this report, stress tests have shown that should a debt crisis rattle the euro zone, Russia’s banks would ...
September 6, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Sept 6, 2011

A sanguine Vladimir Putin has told a regional conference that he expects Russia’s GDP to grow 4.2-4.3% this year.   According to this report, stress tests have shown that should a debt crisis rattle the euro zone, Russia’s banks would ...