Things used to be so much more exciting for TNK-BP in Russia before they put former German Chancellor and Kremlin confident Gerhard Schröder on its board of directors. No more office raids, no more regulatory expropriation attempts, visa den...
In exchange for their support on pipelines to bypass Russia, the EU will propose better trade ties to six former Soviet states in the Eastern Partnership meeting. An agreement on the South Stream pipeline may be delayed as the countries invo...
The World Bank is prepared to lend Russia ‘several billions of dollars’ over the next two years to aid social programs. VTB Capital has announced that Russia’s economy contracted at a slower pace last month, at a rate of 4....
TODAY: Georgian tensions continue; ‘counterproductive’ is NATO’s word on Russian expulsions; Eastern partnership a risky undertaking for the EU?; Sochi is apparently secure and within schedule; first attempt at gay marriage in Ru...
I personally don’t subscribe to the idea that Washington holds Latin America in the same regard as Moscow does the former states of the Soviet Union. Certainly, throughout history there has been no shortage of unfortunate if not brutal...
Today the Wall Street Journal is running an interesting piece about a summit to be held on Friday including all the potential participants of the Nabucco pipeline project, breathing fresh live into the embattled EU energy transit project. Th...
It appears that after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has dedicated such a large portion of budget, making his country the largest buyer of Russian arms in the world, that the products he’s acquiring from Moscow are of pretty shoddy quality...
First Russia extended their troops to the borders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, then there was a rebellion of a tank battalion, followed by the expulsion of two Canadian diplomats working for NATO. Kind of like a tit-for-tat and tat in resp...
A few days ago we posted some comments and video from American observers on U.S.-Russian relations, which included some exchange of views on realism and the whole “reset button” approach to the Kremlin currently being offered by the Ob...
‘The European Union is finally getting serious about ensuring the diversity of its energy supplies’: RFERL reports on the upcoming southern corridor energy summit. The Other Russia analyzes Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin’...
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