It seems to be a transformative moment in the Russia-Poland relationship, facilitated in large part by a change in attitude toward Katyn. From Judy Dempsey in the New York Times: “The Poles realized that if they wanted influence in the...
The volume of Russian gas exports to Europe via Ukraine for the next five years will be 16 billion cubic meters higher than current deliveries. President Dmitry Medvedev has some very level-headed advice for Ukraine on ensuring energy securi...
The Wall Street Journal comments on the fact that Russia’s big PepsiCo M&A deal last week was brokered by US – not Russian – banks. Steel prices for domestic automakers could rise by 40% next year if Severstal and Magni...
TODAY: Russia will join WTO next year; Rogozin to dispute secret NATO defense plans; WikiLeaks reveals Russia’s assistance on Libya’s uranium; Medvedev moves on child welfare, has enough public support for re-election; Volgograd and Mo...
Writing in Foreign Policy, Charles Kenny reviews several new studies which challenge the conventionally accepted “resource curse,” which proposes that natural resource wealth leads to civil conflict and authoritarianism. Do kleptocrati...
Very interesting speculation from William Dunkerley in The Moscow Times that Medvedev may make moves to sell off state media holdings – which would be a tremendous boon to freedom of the press. There are, of course, a number of other o...
President Dmitry Medvedev has suggested that Russia could get involved in the privatization of some of Poland’s larger energy projects – in particular, Lotos, which has a number of potential Russian suitors – and defended his cou...
According to the Federal Financial Monitoring Service, financial institutions reported $3.8 trillion – yes, trillion – worth of suspicious transactions in the first nine months of this year, fueling fears of increased capital flight. &...
TODAY: Medvedev’s Polish meet is successful; EU-Russia talks to focus on WTO accession; new WikiLeaks reveal secret NATO plans to protect Baltic States; media control originates in poor profitability?; Putin’s United Russia comments co...
We’ve been following this developing deal between Canada’s Uranium-One and the Rosatom subsidiary ARMZ, but it’s only this week that it looks like the transaction is wrapping up with U.S. approval from CIFIUS. The Financial...
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