Russian Vice Prime Minister Igor Sechin’s visit to Venezuela has concentrated on energy cooperation. Gazprombank has agreed to offer a $4 billion loan to finance the development of minerals and other raw materials in the oil-rich natio...
In the New York Times, a special report examines the motivations behind the closure of the ‘hell-hole’, as one official described Cherkizovsky market: health and safety regulations, a crackdown on vice or revenge for owner Telman Ismai...
TODAY: EU to extend Georgia monitoring mission; Kyrgyz opposition turns to Moscow. China-Russia relations strain over river proposal. Activist shot in face following threats. Moscow Patriarch Kirill appeals for unity in Ukraine.&...
If you want to know what Russia’s energy ambitions are in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, I used to tell people that all you had to do was carefully track the travel schedule of Vladimir Putin. Nowadays, the sa...
Though Chechnya often gets the street cred, Ingushetia is a pretty rough place as well, and one of the most bloody war zones of the Caucasus. Before his untimely death, the last article that lawyer Stanislav Markelov contributed to this blog...
Why blog about the day’s news when you can shoot a quick video? Today we take the lazy approach, as Robert Amsterdam speaks briefly about the controversy over the Joseph Biden and Hillary Clinton comments on Russia, the release of the ...
Though this paper bears a date of “June 2009,” I have just now come across it. Stanislav Secrieru of the excellent Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) has a piece which considers whether or not the economic crisis and lower...
It looks like this hasn’t gone away yet, as the Russian newspapers opened the week with several front page stories on the Biden comments (though not so much about the Hillary response): From the Associated Press: Some newspapers and commenta...
Somebody from Freedom House wrote an op/ed in the Moscow Times about Russia’s moves to water down its responsibilities before the European Court of Human Rights. Georgy Matyushkin, Russia’s representative to the European Court of Human...
Gazprom chief Alexei Miller has argued that the increase on gas extraction tax proposed by Vladimir Putin is unwarranted at the moment, and has suggested that an import duty for natural gas could instead raise funds. Gazprom Neft claims to h...
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