…is for Russia to maintain an aggressive foreign policy. Joschka Fisher points out this paradox of Russia’s attempts to rollback NATO (which was not an issue of concern whatsoever in years past) actually backfiring, and making th...
I caught this one in the FT today: “I would like to convey a very clear message to Moscow and Kiev: If the agreement sponsored by the EU is not honoured as a matter of urgency, the Commission will advise EU companies to take this matter to t...
An article we posted on the gas war this week pointed out that one reason why Gazprom was getting favorable press (at least early on) was that Europe was feeling exhausted from having to deal with fallout of the Russia-Georgia war and the seemingl...
As our regular readers know, correspondent Grigory Pasko spent much of last year touring the length of the planned route for the Nord Stream pipeline, writing articles, interviewing communities which would be affected, and even making a short docu...
Former KGB officer Alexander Lebedev, who owns shares in Gazprom, discusses the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute with the BBC. The Georgian government is defending its plan to hand over control of a hydropower plant on the border with separatist A...
The financial crisis is having a dire effect on migrants who depend on money from their employers to support their families back home, meaning that the effects of Russia’s plummeting economy are felt in many other countries. The rate o...
TODAY: Gazprom blames US for ongoing gas dispute; Ukraine says no pressure in gas pipelines; Bulgarian and Slovakian prime ministers to visit Russia and Ukraine; European Commission may advise EU to sue; Russian political freedoms at a low as car ...
Undaunted and unrestrained, Garry Kasparov hammers away again at the Russian leadership in the Wall Street Journal: So the question for Western leaders is whether they doubt Mr. Putin would hesitate to provoke a war in the Middle East. If his regi...
Germany’s RWE has agreed to buy Dutch utility Essent for €9.3 billion ($12.5 billion) including debt, in a bid to become a competitor for E.ON, but the news sent its share price down, with analysts suggesting that the deal was overpriced.&nb...
Putin is scheduled to be the opening speaker at the World Economic Forum at the end of this month, but he’ll have his work cut out for him, says Bloomberg. Writing about a ‘deep slowdown’ in the global economic system, the ...
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