The eleven-member Gas Exporting Countries Forum says the question of it coordinating output volumes is ‘not yet on the agenda‘, but some members, the Algerian oil minister at very least, want GECF to be able to influence prices in the ...
Yegor Gaidar, a primary architect of radical liberal reforms that helped Russia transition from communism to capitalism, has died in Moscow, aged 53. ‘[W]hatever hopes that Russia’s leaders might hold, the lines between commerce,...
TODAY: NATO Secretary-General in Moscow; START treaty will not be signed this week; Browder praises Medvedev, Yakunin slams Browder; civic police force; Izvestia accused of extremism; children’s ombudsman highlights rights issues. The Kremli...
We’ve been hearing quite a lot about the natural gas glut hitting global markets, and the rapid decrease in demand among the world’s leading consumers. In essence, market forces appear to be rapidly deflating Gazprom’s pote...
Although this was published a few days ago, there is some interesting reading over at Foreign Policy as former KGB head Oleg Kalugin describes his experience planning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. I sure hope Barack Obama is studying u...
Although I can’t embed the video here, I recommend jumping over to the Business News Network to watch this interview with Rachel Ziembra, a senior analyst with Nouriuel Roubini’s group, talking about whether or not Russia can hang on t...
Jaime Suchlicki, Director of the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, has a paper summarising the Russia-Venezuela-Cuba-China-Iran relationship entitled, “The Cuba-Venezuela Challenge to Hemispheric Sec...
My only excuse in publishing an excerpt from this FT piece was the brief mention of Putin’s message to Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi following the violent attack he suffered. No matter what I think of his politics, there’s nothing...
The political fallout continues on the Hermitage case in Russia and the death in prison of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. First Medvedev fired 20 prison officials, the complaints and outrage continued, and today he sacked Anatoly Mikhalkin of the ...
Gazprom has rejected all requests from European customers to remove take-or-pay clauses from long-term contracts, which require companies to pay for a set amount of gas each year, whether they need it or not. Black Sea oil exports are being&...
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