The pressure is off for Europe after Russia and Belarus reached a deal on oil exports, with the former promising to drop duties on crude for Belarus in exchange for its 2011 export duties. Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin thinks Rosneft is ...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin insists that Russia is safe from the threat of a sovereign debt crisis. US businesses are exploring ways of getting involved with Russian industries in line with opportunities arising from its impending WTO mem...
TODAY: Khimki highway to go ahead; restrictions for protesters; migalki to be regulated; St Petersburg tower to be relocated; Putin slams hypocritical Western treatment of Assange; Serbian leaks; NATO insists relations are improving; are...
Recently they showed on the Russian television how head of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) Yuri Chikhanchin was accounting before the prime minister of Russia for work done. He, in particular, reported that in the c...
From the Economist: The likeliest outcome is that the two will try to preserve their tandem one way or another. Kremlin officials dismiss talk of dead ends as pointless whining and alarmism from liberals. The prevailing view is that the system wor...
Moscow’s relationship with Hugo Chavez has long been a topic of obsession on this blog, so it’s been pretty interesting to get access to some of the leaked diplomatic cables underscoring U.S. concern over arms transactions between the ...
A new industry move for Gazprom Neft – it is planning to team up with the Kyrgyz government to supply fuel to its US military air base, a move welcomed on grounds that it will increase transparency. Did Shell know ahead of time that Ga...
Privatization gains estimates for next year: $15 billion? A WikiLeaks cable suggests that US diplomats intervened to try and sway a Russian law to prevent it from damaging Visa and MasterCard interests – the former of course being one ...
TODAY: Police light-handed with nationalist footballers; Memorial activist attacked; corruption estimates and counter-forces; Roscosmos plays down Glonass crash; Rogozin calls for NATO admission; terrorist attacks double; airplanes did fly near US...
While everything seems so much clearer with regard to Nicolas Sarkozy’s open lobbying of FIFA to pick Qatar, and the controversial purchase by the country’s sovereign wealth fund of a stake in German construction giant Hochtief, why no...
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