TNK-BP is on the lookout for oil and gas production projects in Iraq as the country builds up to its second round of international bidding. A piece in the New York Times examines how the Nord Stream pipeline could reinforce Russia’s do...
Russian and Chinese companies have signed infrastructure and construction agreements today worth $3.5 billion. Avtovaz has posted record losses of $659 million for the January-June period, a sour accompaniment to the government’s decis...
TODAY: Clinton in town looking for answers on Iran, will meet Lavrov and Medvedev; Rogozin refuses to be out-twittered; United Russia confirmed to have powered through regional elections. New book ‘Without Putin’ by Mikhail Kasya...
Out of the many, many interesting quotes we got from Vice President Joe Biden during his famously candid Wall Street Journal interview (which sounded like it was done in a cocktail lounge), was the following appraisal of the United States believes...
The Guardian reports: “The $230m which belonged to the Russian people had been stolen by the criminals in an organised conspiracy supported by corrupted officials in the higher reaches of the Russian state,” the video says. “The ...
Writing on RFE/RL, Charli Carpenter has an opinion piece on the EU report on the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008. Carpenter takes a bit of a refreshing approach to a tired subject, pointing out that the entrenched pundits on both sides are...
One criticism that you not likely to hear about the Russian government is its lack of enthusiastic applications of new media technologies. The Prime Minister posts his topless photos at a much more timely rate that the White House page is up...
Although I believe this is a few weeks old, I just came across this video of Edward Lucas speaking at the Oslo Freedom Forum, providing an introduction for the dissident Vladimir Bukovsky. After the jump, there are the three separate videos ...
Yesterday Russia went through another one of its time-honored traditions of organized elections under sovereign democracy, and as may well be expected, United Russia swept 76 of 83 regions – helped no doubt by the strictly controlled lack of...
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