Russia and China have asserted a desire to increase cooperation in the energy industry, at the fifth round of Russian-Chinese energy talks in Beijing, attended by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin and China’s deputy premier Wang Qishan. ...
President Medvedev has reportedly said that the damage caused by the financial crisis was far worse than expected and the economy may contract by 7.5% this year. In an interview with state television, Medvedev designated priorities for econo...
TODAY: United Russia sweep polls at regional elections; accusation of vote-rigging fly. Mitvol receives unusual delivery. Medvedev had no time for Yushchenko at CIS summit; positive on Obama’s peace prize; Ecuador looking for wea...
It is always surreal when extremist hate groups engage in traditional, organized communications methods, like a Hezbollah newsletter, a FARC press release, or a Nashi press conference (not that I am suggesting similarities between these very diffe...
Just when you thought the latest Nobel peace prize winner had sold the farm and caved into Russia, we get this little ditty from the former ambassador to Russia, Alexander Vershbow, who talks about the possibility of stationing the new missiles in...
Check out this intriguing first paragraph from Roman Kupchinsky at Jamestown Foundation: In 2003 a team of Russian foreign policy and energy experts wrote a 70 page memo about the role of Gazprom, the state-owned gas monopoly, in Russia’s do...
William Browder of Hermitage Capital Management, the victim of a considerable state theft by the Russian government, is upping the ante in his fight to bring attention to the flagrant corruption and abuses of office currently taking place in the K...
While my editor was busily working away yesterday, Ariel Cohen had an opinion piece run in the New York Times. Upon seeing the headline and lede, I was worried that we were going to see yet another one of those “there’s a rift be...
I just wanted to drop a quick note here to all of my regular readers. You may have noticed that postings have been very light over the past number of weeks, and even yesterday we only had the news blasts going. Please accept my apologi...
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has said that some countries have offered to provide Iran with uranium enriched to 20% for peaceful use as nuclear reactor fuel. In a move to decrease energy consumption, Russia plans to ban the productio...
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