Gazprom and the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation have come to an agreement on the framework of gas deliveries to China; issues related to pricing still remain. Apparently Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has said Russia could ...
Hillary Clinton has expressed hope that Boeing will win a $3 billion contract to supply planes to Russian airline Rosavia. Sberbank president German Gref seems to be in the dark about the signing of the Opel deal after thanking reporters for...
TODAY: Did Clinton get what she wanted?; media reports possible silence for sanctions deal; START treaty progress. Georgia accused of abetting al-Qaida; Putin ‘satisfied’ with job. German official castigates Medvedev for in...
I’m grateful to the commenter John who guided me toward this link for the report sponsored by the Swedish Ministry of Defence on energy security and the North European Gas Pipeline, otherwise known as Nord Stream. I was a little too ha...
From the Financial Times: “The Opel deal was for Russia a classic divide and conquer,” the senior banker says. “They got the Germans to betray their other European partners. They said, ‘If you do a deal with us we won’...
Writing in the New Republic, Barron YoungSmith debunks the argument coming from conservative opponents of the US signing a replacement for the scuppered START treaty with Russia out of the idea that it is aimed at constraining America’s abil...
Sometimes you don’t really have to read the news to know what’s happening. Reuters: Embattled Russia rights activists ask Clinton for help Wall Street Journal: Clinton Presses Russia on Iran Telegraph: Washington to tone do...
Well one can say a lot of things about the Russian mafia leader Vyacheslav K. Ivankov, but you wouldn’t say he didn’t have an impact on the country, as his funeral today brought out crowds of hundreds. In this news clip, there ar...
The Nord Stream pipeline is back in the news this week, and unfortunately it’s not main stream press reviews of Grigory Pasko’s documentary. The Financial Times was carrying a three-frame photo in its special Russia business pull...
There’s a great piece running in the Financial Times today on one of the most shadowy and interesting figures in Russian politics, the ideologist and gray cardinal Vladislav Surkov. I especially thought that the comparison with Karl Ro...
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