Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Russia in search of gas deals, but some reports suggest his visit may raise the East-West problematic for the potential transit hub nation. Gazprom has claimed that the amounts of Azeri gas t...
On its first day of trading in 2010, the ruble strengthened the most in more than ten years against the dollar and the MICEX soared as oil reached $83 a barrel. The New York Times suggests that the boom can be partly attributed to the long h...
TODAY: Surprise clearing of opposition blogger; Russia’s stance on 14th protocol examined; migrant workers to gain legal standing? Middle-classes in no-man’s land. Rogozin and Gromov’s advice for NATO; START talks on-...
As Ambassador to NATO, it is Dmitry Rogozin’s assignment to be a bit rude, funny, and to make trouble – hence the regular personal insults his Twitter feed toward Anders Fogh Rasmussen as though the two were in high school. But I...
The following press release is being circulated today by the Yukos shareholders. YUKOS Oil Company v. Russian Federation Hearing in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) The Court’s hearing on the case of YUKOS Oil Company v. Russian Fe...
The Washington Post has an editorial on Putin’s annual winter punishment for Belarus: Of course, Mr. Putin and his spokesmen insist that this is merely a commercial dispute that involves ending Russian subsidies. That’s also what they ...
The following is an exclusive translation of an article from the German newspaper Die Welt by Manfred Quiring, which takes a look at the current controversies over prison conditions and dying prisoners, and what President Medvedev is trying to do ...
Russian oil continues to flow to Belarus and via Belarus to the European Union despite the failure of talks between by Moscow and Minsk, who are placing the blame squarely on each other. A section of the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant has be...
A group of Russian oligarchs, including Sergey Popov and Andrey Melnichenko of Russia’s biggest coal-producer Suek and Vladimir Potanin of ProfMedia are preparing for listings on the London stock market, reports the FT. Alexander Lebed...
TODAY: Putin-critical children’s ombudsman ousted; Medvedev’s governor appointments suggest no clean-up; how a ‘reset’ doesn’t seem to mean a re-START; pressure on poultry talks. Russia’s ‘dirty war&#...
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