It’s no wonder why the FSB vaguely threatened to assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. In just the first wave of confidential diplomatic cables released yesterday, we get the opportunity to how officials of the U.S. government ...
Writing in the New York Times, John Vinocur notes the peculiar silence at the Lisbon NATO summit on the subject of France’s sale of the Mistral warships to Russia. A coda: the high-pressure gush at Lisbon was successfully slip-streamed by Fr...
TNK-BP is setting up an international trading arm, likely to be based in Geneva, which could prove a ‘serious rival‘ to London as a trading hub for physical energy commodities, reports the FT. Germany’s E.On has launched a ...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claims that Russia allocated $4 billion of credit to his country to spend on weapons last month. Could new developments mean that the case against Sergei Storchak will finally be closed? British Busines...
TODAY: Editor of Russian Newsweek speaks out against television news; bill submitted on tougher penalties for those who attack journalists; Wikileaks could embarrass diplomats; small-time gangsters; Olympics row with Georgia; Duma blames Stalin fo...
South Stream’s Romanian segment has been completed, says Gazprom. The combined profits of Sakhalin-1, Sakhalin-2, and the Kharyaga project (all still in development), could bring Russia $318 billion over the next four decades, by ...
British Business Secretary Vince Cable will speak in Russia today on the need for it to diversify its interests away from natural resources, drawing a parallel with the UK’s over-reliance on financial services. Thomas Cook, lured by a ...
TODAY: Russia planning naval expansion; Putin praises Tajik military base; Belarus accuses Russia of funding opposition; Merkel spiky ahead of talks; Lavrov supports UN statement on N Korea; Wikileaks to expose corrupt politicians? World Cup and W...
Is China on track with its efforts to reduce energy usage? In an article published in a German newspaper, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expresses reservations about potential risks posed by the EU’s third energy package, including R...
An Ernst & Young audit suggests that 60% of Russia’s multinationals have a negative view of the country’s tax system and its effect on investment; the head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service says that foreign companies should all...
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