Yet another remnant of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution has been picked off this week by President Viktor Yanukovych with his Moscow-friendly statement that Holodomor, the famine caused by Stalin’s policies, shouldn’t be consider...
Analysts are keeping a close watch on whether or not the oil industry will be able to prevent the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from spreading to the shoreline, says the FT, which also reports that the company is spending over $100...
Uralchem’s plans for an IPO this year, which would be one of London’s largest if it goes ahead, are being challenged by a former shareholder who is urging the Financial Services Authority to block the offering, apparently ove...
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Some members of the Ukrainian opposition were not too happy about Viktor Yanukovych’s deal with Moscow to extent the Russian Navy’s lease at Sevastopol. Courtesy of RFE/RL:
Poor Barack Obama, he just can’t make anybody happy with his reset policy toward Russia. His opponents on the right argue that he’s selling the farm through weakness and undeserved concessions to an uncooperative, aggressive gove...
Russia’s controversial deal offering reduced gas prices to Ukraine in exchange for an extended lease on its Sevastopol naval base have commentators up in arms. Ukrainian opposition to the deal has reached near fever pitch: Reuters repo...
During his visit to Norway, President Dmitry Medvedev offered Statoil a role – potentially worth billions – in exploring Russia’s Prirazlomnoye oil field, apparently in a bid to gain foreign input where it lacks expertise. ...
First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov says the government may introduce a tax on capital transactions as a means of deterring short-term inflows of speculative capital, and suggests that import tariffs and subsidizations could be necessary in ...
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