From Yulia Latynina’s column in the Moscow Times: On June 17, President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao signed an agreement in which Russia will sell 300 million tons of oil to China over 20 years for $100 billion. That break...
The Gas Exporting Countries Forum has delayed a vote for secretary general after Russia did not propose a candidate. Lukoil has been unsuccessful in its attempt to win a bid for Iraq’s West Qurna oil field, but the company may have a s...
Norilsk Nickel shareholders have voted to invite a state representative, Vasily Titov, deputy chairman of state-run VTB Group, to their board, to give the company additional support during the crisis. Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin ...
TODAY: Skepticism about re-set; opposition activist dies in prison; Russians largely unaware of events in Pikalyovo; Klebnikov family urge Obama to push for justice; government to act on Russian dipsomania Ria-Novosti reports that Russian analysts...
As readers are likely well aware, Russia is shutting down most of its casinos this week under a new law that will isolate legal gambling facilities to just a handful of regions, far from the capital of Moscow. This new piece from Tony Halpin...
Well this is just mean. Vladimir Putin doesn’t want Russia’s billionaire bankers to take any vacation this summer, while it also looks like the state will become even more dominant in the banking sector. From the Financial ...
The following is the official press statement from the offices of the German MP Dr Andreas Schockenhoff, who attended the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky as an observer. His conclusions, as you can read below, are sharply critical of the lega...
George Friedman of Stratfor gives some interesting and less interesting opinions on the Obama-Medvedev summit coming up next week. Friedman believes the the “sphere of influence” question will be the central issue of the meeting,...
The news from Georgia is pretty bad this week. Russia is conducting large scale war games right on the border, the OSCE monitors have left, protests continue to split the country, and observers are wondering if Barack Obama will even say the...
Robert Amsterdam has a new blog post up over on Huffington Post about Obama’s approach to Iran and Venezuela. Here is a short excerpt: There are two reasons why both the authoritarians of Persia and the Orinoco Belt represent a common ...
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