Some comments on Gazprom’s announcements of spending cuts and delays in developing the Yamal field from the Wall Street Journal: “A year-and-a-half ago we were worrying about whether Gazprom would get Bovanenkovo done in time” to...
From Ariel Cohen’s contribution to the New York Times: Furthermore, Medvedev and Kudrin would like to see Russia join the O.E.C.D. Herein lies the rub: Russia today doesn’t fit the organization’s criteria for property rights, tra...
Russia is busy hosting this week: the city of Yekaterinburg will be both the first destination for newly re-elected Iranian President Ahmadinejad, and the site of the first meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani Preside...
Barack Obama’s much-anticipated first trip to Moscow is approaching, but will the new President’s peacemaking endeavours be as effective on the Kremlin as they has been in other contexts? As Russia welcomes Iranian President Ahma...
The Russian government looks set to raise oil duty by 39% on July 1. Oil firm Lukoil has announced that VEB has bought up a stake in the company, though it has not specified when this transaction took place nor how big the stake is. &nb...
The Moscow Times analyzes the recent differences in opinion on the dollar. According to experts, the views of President Dmitry Medvedev and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin are apparently not as contrary as they may seem. Medvedev has ag...
TODAY: Russia plays host to SCO and BRIC meetings; sidestepping protests at home, Iranian President Ahmadinejad lands in ‘welcoming’ Russia; is the US re-start set to stall?; Kremlin vetoes UN mission in Georgia; Russia holds record fo...
By way of comparison to my last post on this topic, Bloomberg, via the Moscow Times, has done its own quote-tracking exercise of Russian discussion about the dollar, surveying some analysts on how they interpret the seemingly differing stances tha...
Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution extending the presence of a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Abkhazia. At issue was the language used to describe the mission. Georgian leaders wanted it to continue to be called the “United Nations Observer Missi...
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