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May 7, 2010

Energy Blast – May 7, 2010

Transneft minority shareholder Alexei Navalny has won a court ruling obligating the police to carry out a check into the beneficiaries of the pipeline operator’s billions of rubles in charity donations.  Ukrainian President Viktor Yanuk...
May 7, 2010

Today in Russian Business – May 7, 2010

Italian gun manufacturer Beretta is apparently contemplating opening a production unit in Russia.  Space corporation Energia may purchase the operations of bankrupt satellite-launcher Sea Launch, which it needs to implement its Zenit booster ...
May 7, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 7, 2010

TODAY: US congressman to make move on Magnitsky case; Stalin continues to cause outrage; focus turns to living conditions for veterans today; Medvedev calls Stalin regime ‘totalitarian’.  Obama keeps finger on reset button; puts c...
May 6, 2010

Has Deepwater Put The Freeze On Arctic Exploration?

Oil company executives across the globe are doubtless counting their blessings that it was not an oil rig under their control that provoked the worst oil-spill environmental disaster since Exxon Valdez.  Much media focus has been given to whe...
May 6, 2010

Browder Slams Russia’s “Legal Cynicism” in Congress

William Browder of Hermitage Capital Management testified before a Congressional Commission today on the death of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, and the failure of the Russian authorities to investigate or prosecute any of the people responsible fo...
May 6, 2010

The Future Of (Dis)United Russia?

An op-ed by Nikolai Petrov from the Carnegie Moscow Center in today’s Moscow Times analyzes United Russia’s planning ahead of the October elections, which, he suggests, could prove to be less of walk in the park than those of last year...
May 6, 2010

Get On the Genocide Bus

Seriously?  Also, the posters are back on, despite earlier reports that they were canceled.  
May 6, 2010

Sphere of Influence for the Taking

Just caught this interesting analysis piece from Michael Stott at Reuters that comments on the success Russia has had in “winning back” their influence over several countries near her borders, while Europe and the United States, well, ...
May 6, 2010

Energy Blast – May 6, 2010

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has stated that any talks over a gas merger involving Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrainy should involve the European Union.   Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has acknowledged that Ukraine apparently saved $25...
May 6, 2010

Today in Russian Business – May 6, 2010

Apparently Russia’s inflation rate dropped to the lowest level in 12 years in April, the Moscow Times reports.  The ruble has tumbled in the biggest two-day decline against the dollar this year as oil dropped and fears that the economic...