Robert Dudley, the former CEO of TNK-BP who was ousted from the company by its Russian shareholders at AAR, is set to join the board of BP. The Prime Minister of Japan called Gazprom’s new liquefied natural gas plant a ‘window to...
More than a quarter of Russia’s revised federal budget will be spent on anti-crisis measures – roughly 1.9 trillion roubles ($53.33 billion). Another record slump in retail demand corresponds with another record rate of unemploym...
TODAY: ECHR to accept $34 billion Yukos lawsuit against Russian government; US officials to meet with NATO and will informally discuss reopening Russia dialogue; Kyrgyz government to vote on US air base today; 9% of Russians trust their police for...
A verdict could be delivered on the Anna Politkovskaya trial as early as today, but the men accused are charged only with being accessories to the murder. The LA Times suggests that, if those on trial are found guilty, the search for the rea...
On 13 February in Moscow in the center of international trade there took place a ball of the press, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Union of journalists of Russia. There were around a thousand people from various regions of the country. I...
A day after Rosneft and Transneft secured a $25 billion loan with China in return for providing 20 years worth of oil from East Siberia, Russia has opened its first LNG plant, capable of providing five percent of world demand when running at full ...
The chess moves have come early and often in the opening weeks of America and Russia’s “reset” relationship, to quote a phrase much recycled by the media after Joseph Biden’s speech in Munich. But what to make of all this c...
Yesterday we reported about how the financial crisis might effect Russia’s hold on the north Caucasus, including Chechnya. Less money, it seems, could mean less loyalty from a propped-up, pro-Kremlin government all too capable of collapse. B...
The $25 billion in energy loans to Russia from China, confirmed yesterday, include agreements that will give Sinopec and PetroChina access to Russian oil at around $20 a barrel, says Bloomberg. Transneft and Rosneft, the recipients of the lo...
Nothing you won’t have heard before, but a thermometer of the broad media stance on Russia’s economic climate can be found in this summary by the BBC. Russia’s rich are curbing their spending on art, forcing the Art Moscow ...
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