To derail European attempts to diversify energy suppliers, Russia would need to purchase all natural gas exports of its Caspian neighbors, Bloomberg reports. Russia is set to build a wind farm on Russky Island by 2012. Rushydro should ...
The Russian Finance Ministry says that all of the major tax breaks have been introduced and there will be ‘no sensations’ in tax proposals over the next three years. Rusal claims to have cut costs by $554 million in the first qua...
TODAY: Russia to delay NATO council meeting; Ryabko critical on US missile defense; ex-Yukos lawyer released on parole; Medvedev starts Internet discussion group; Lenin’s birthday suitRussia has notified NATO of its postponing of the May 7 c...
From the Financial Times article on the parole granted to former Yukos lawyer and political prisoner Svetlana Bakhmina: But analysts and opposition politicians cautioned that the steps looked like little more than gestures and said they were likel...
One of the libraries of Vyborg (Leningrad oblast of Russia) has received a letter with an offer to place in its collection for open access the results of the environmental impact study for the overland portion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. In a...
A few hours ago I had the pleasure of attending an on-the-record discussion with the former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer at Chatham House here in London. As may be expected, Fischer’s talk “Germany Twenty Years after the Fal...
Below is an excerpt of a frightening, slightly exaggerated, but not entirely untrue opinion article in The Weekly Standard about the Moldova protests by Stephen Schwartz. The new election of an outright Communist government was bound to stimulate ...
A reader has directed my attention to this interesting article by Clifford Levy published in The New York Times about a seemingly unnecessary $1 billion bridge – which would be the longest suspension bridge in the world – connecting Vl...
Several news outlets are reporting that a Russian court today has granted parole to the former Yukos lawyer, political prisoner, and mother of three Svetlana Bakhmina. Here is an excerpt from the Moscow Times: The Preobrazhensky District Cou...
The news is already being reported by AFP, the AP, and the BBC. Below is his full statement to the court, as well as some of the slides he presented which show that the charges brought by the prosecutors fail to demonstrate any criminal act....
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