The Russian government plans to invite Singaporean investors to buy up stakes in state-owned firms, as part of the Kremlin’s privatization drive. Potash producer Silvinit may seek a foreign company to help it develop its largest field,...
TODAY: Russia warns against ’emotional’ response to Iran missile launch; war games conclude. Opposition activists pleased with German election result; Ukrainian President’s plea for poisoners; report on war in Georgia to distribu...
With so many changes afoot in Germany following the elections, there is surprising little discussion about how all this is going to affect relations with Russia. There’s a pretty good reason for that, as everyone assumes the likely app...
Writing in the Australian paper The National, Roger Stern and Bernard Haykel see the current situation in Iran as similar to the twilight of the Soviet Union: Next, the kingdom should reprise its greatest peacemaking performance: the 1986 oil pric...
Over the weekend Owen Matthews published a preemptive political obituary of President Dmitry Medvedev in Newsweek, pointing out that all of the problems that he has tried (and mostly failed) to confront in Russian society were specifically made by...
The Streetwise Professor has a sharp post on Vladimir Putin’s recent welcoming party to foreign investors in the Arctic energy sector (which was done with a flair of deadpan comedy). Really it’s the same old story starting over a...
It’s funny how in back-to-back Russian show trials, the documents used to convict someone in the first, turn out to be exculpatory in the second. Naturally they can’t be located now. From the Associated Press: Khodorkovsky ...
Gazprom is set to bid for gas and oil fields in Iraq with Turkey’s state-run oil company Turkish Petroleum Corporation. Rosneft, Lukoil and Gazprom Neft will also participate in bids. Venezuela’s Science and Technology Mini...
Ria-Novosti reports that first deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov believes the path towards a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan is clear. Bank of America Corp. has increased Russia’s economic growth forecast for 2010 to 3.9% f...
TODAY: Clinton pleased with Russia cooperation; Lavrov suggests caution on Iran’s second nuclear site; put out by West’s withholding of intelligence reports. Medvedev clarifies Iskander position. Violence continues to boil ...
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