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August 19, 2011

Energy Blast – Aug 19, 2011

Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko speculates that pipeline natural gas from Russia to South Korea could become a serious competitor to the LNG deal brokered between Korea Gas Corp, Shell and Total.  The long-delayed Gazprom platform, which ha...
August 19, 2011

Energy Blast – Aug 19, 2011

Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko speculates that pipeline natural gas from Russia to South Korea could become a serious competitor to the LNG deal brokered between Korea Gas Corp, Shell and Total.  The long-delayed Gazprom platform, which ha...
August 19, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Aug 19, 2011

Moscow will lose 1,000 of its 24,000 civil servants next year.  Companies continue to vie for inclusion in the expanding Skolkovo Business Park, which has just welcomed its 100th member.  The former CEO of Bank of Moscow is seeking $4.8 million in...
August 19, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 19, 2011

TODAY: United Russia members defect to opposition; satellite goes missing; U.S. report cites chronic North Caucasus violence; Karelia wants to ban Halloween; Moscow hooliganism; 20th anniversary of Communist coup marked by memoirs as Gorbachev con...
August 19, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 19, 2011

TODAY: United Russia members defect to opposition; satellite goes missing; U.S. report cites chronic North Caucasus violence; Karelia wants to ban Halloween; Moscow hooliganism; 20th anniversary of Communist coup marked by memoirs as Gorbachev con...
August 18, 2011

Energy Blast – Aug 18, 2011

Several hundred tonnes of oil remain in Shell’s leaking North Sea pipeline.  A 15-year-long criminal case against three ENRC shareholders has been settled, and the charges dropped.  Sberbank is urging Russian industry giants to apply for carbon cr...
August 18, 2011

Today in Russian Business – Aug 18, 2011

Vladimir Putin underscored the importance of the aerospace industry as Moscow’s MAKS airshow was host to a slew of deals yesterday totaling over $1 billion, listed by the Moscow Times here.  The deals include 24 Sukhoi Superjets for VEB ($760.8 mi...
August 18, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 18, 2011

TODAY: Press looks back on 20 years since the Soviet collapse; Chavez praises Russia for arms supplies, anticipates second loan; Kremlin report focuses on ‘culture of poverty’; spaceflights, rally of blondes. Mikhail Gorbachev held a press confere...
August 18, 2011

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 18, 2011

TODAY: Press looks back on 20 years since the Soviet collapse; Chavez praises Russia for arms supplies, anticipates second loan; Kremlin report focuses on ‘culture of poverty’; spaceflights, rally of blondes. Mikhail Gorbachev held a press confere...
August 17, 2011

Energy Blast – Aug 17, 2011

Ukraine says it is not interested in striking a gas deal with Russia that resembles the one currently in place with Belarus: ‘Belarus is following its own path, and Ukraine has its own.’  Belarusian gas imports for 2011 are up 40% on last year’s n...