We’ve been carefully following Gazprom’s efforts to break into the U.S. market for several years now, but they don’t seem to be getting anywhere closer. Despite opening a trading office in Houston and holding vague talks wi...
Robert Amsterdam is quoted by the American Lawyer blog about the controversy behind the sale of Gazprom Neft assets, which were allegedly illegally seized from Yukos and then sold in a rigged auction to the Italian energy group Eni, only to be pas...
An interesting take on the events in Chisinau from the Moscow Times, looking at why the Moldovans haven’t been looking East for help during this political crisis: But what should worry the Kremlin is not the threat of a similar uprising at h...
Hungarian President, Laszlo Solyom, is reportedly ‘worried’ about the circumstances under which Surgutneftegaz bought a stake in MOL, fearing the possibility of ‘creeping control’. After a two-month suspension of acti...
First Deputy Prime Minister, Igor Shuvalov, has commented that the government may establish a fund ‘for isolating toxic assets‘. Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Andrei Klepach, says that inflation is expected to slow dow...
TODAY: Moldovan sovereignty should be protected says Kremlin; Sberbank CEO takes government to task on banking crisis; Putin’s party should harbor ‘no illusions‘ warns Medvedev; American accusations emerge over hacker spies The K...
Thousands of miles away from Russia, where the judicial farce otherwise known as the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky is playing out, there is another case which gives one much greater optimism for the advance of international legal precedent:...
Today we are seeing some more token signs from President Dmitry Medvedev that he is independent of Vladimir Putin – this time with a stern warning to the United Russia party about the appointment of regional governors. It is more diffi...
Dmitry Sidorov, the Washington DC-based bureau chief of Kommersant, has an opinion article today in Forbes about the frequent harrassment, threats, and violence against independent journalists in Russia, especially those working for Novaya Gazeta ...
What scares the Kremlin the most? Missile shields? NATO encroachment? Development of Iranian gas or the unstoppable growth of China? Or perhaps the renewed popularity of an American president, which makes the all the spoili...
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