Over at Oil and the Glory, Steve LeVine sees Vladimir Putin’s unexpected offer to take over the Ukrainian economy as something akin to a practical joke. Putin likes to sneak up behind neighbors, throw up his arms, and shout, Boo! Usually, th...
Graham Stack has a good one on Russia’s enthusiastic interest in the Ukrainian economy published on Business New Europe, which he likens to “a horde of shoppers at the spring sales.” Buried down near the bottom of the piece...
Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform has always produced of the highest quality research on EU-Russia energy relations, and her latest article on the continuing need to push forward with the Nabucco pipeline project is no exception. T...
There seem to be two kinds of views out there on the development of shale gas, which has already had a big political impact on supplying governments such as Russia. On the one hand, we have the oracles of energy revolution declaring the dawn...
Pressure is mounting on BP CEO Tony Hayward as the company fails to seal the Deepwater leak, which is spilling out 5,000 barrels of oil per day into the ocean. According to Bloomberg, Russia aspires to control all of Ukraine’s gas syst...
President Obama took the unusual step of expressing preference for a strong dollar in an interview with Russian television’s state-run Channel Rossiy (a job he normally leaves up to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner). The Eurozone cr...
TODAY: Deadly mine explosion kills 30, 60 remain trapped; metro attack remembered; Medvedev highlights unity and conciliation at Victory Day celebrations; NATO soldiers present, but did the US and GB face a snub? Katyn documents handed over;...
You’d be forgiven for feeling somewhat confused about the Kremlin’s official stance on the use of Stalin’s images in the Victory Day festivities: there seems to have been a degree of flip-slopping about the Soviet dictator’...
Here’s a follow up on the Magnitsky visa denial story, in which we saw US Senator Benjamin Cardin personally petition Hillary Clinton for a visa ban for those involved in the death of the Hermitage lawyer whilst in prison last year. To...
More concerns have surfaced today over the new FSB bill to ‘combat extremism’ submitted to the Duma last week. Today the Power Vertical’s Robert Coalson relays some criticisms drawn from INDEM foundation head Georgy Satarov...
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