Gazprom Neft has outbid TNK-BP to buy a 16% stake in Sibir Energy, in a possible gesture towards acquiring complete control of the company. Measures to prevent ‘creeping takeover’ were approved by Hungarian group MOL’s shar...
The economy contracted by 9.5% in the first three months of the year, and may drop by 6% this year. The Central Bank will slash its key refinancing rate to 12.5% from 13%. Prosecutors are being told to crack down on executives who are violat...
TODAY: No quick fix for North Korea arms issue; US-Russia nuclear talks imminent; law proposed to make Nazi rehabilitation a crime; opposition struggles for the airwaves in Sochi; local newspaper faces closure for use of one word ‘We do not ...
Anytime that the Prime Minister gets this involved in the day-to-day management of the economy, bad things are bound to happen. The Financial Times is carrying an article about a significant rate cut that Putin personally forced upon the mar...
An article by Sergei Balashov over at Russia Profile finds it suspicious that the Kremlin only paroled Svetlana Bakhmin instead of granting her pardon … meaning that perhaps there are a few more tricks left up their sleeves to continue this ...
«Grigory, you’re not right!» A representative of the company Nord Stream reacts to an article on the blog Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. On 23 April in the port of Sl...
First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, anointed by some as Russia’s “oil czar”, has traveled to China to sign the final papers on what he calls an “unprecedented” 20 year oil deal (though some people believe that th...
Paul Goble blogs today about comments made by Irina Pavlova and others regarding the willingness of the West to buy into the idea of rapprochement, while others think that government policy is taking yet another step back toward Stalinism. But ins...
The second show trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on trumped up charges is one thing, but the worldwide legal assault on those in the Russian government who illegally stole his former company, Yukos, is an entirely different set of concerns for the ki...
The former President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski has a new column about the political crisis in Ukraine, and what can be done to save the advances won by the Orange Revolution. Three approaches are vital in the preparation and adoption of a n...
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