TODAY: Gazprom resumes gas supply to Europe but says Ukraine is blocking deliveries; Putin responds to Medvedev criticism; troubled times for NGOs in Russia; Freedom House report sparks debate on authoritarian states.‘Everything is fine,R...
Over at the FT Brussels Blog, Tony Barber points to a news conference held last week between Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the press corps, in which Russia’s invokes repeated references to Ukrainian food and drink in order to make his po...
An extract from some of Anne Applebaum’s pipe dreams… Instead of sending their best and brightest to create a genuinely secure system — through expanded use of liquid natural gas, more nuclear plants, clean coal — most Euro...
Estonia’s most famous contemporary composer, Arvo Pärt, premiered a new major symphony work in Los Angeles this past weekend dedicated to Mikhail Khodorkovsky (whom he calls “a great man”) and gives a nod to “all those impr...
Russia’s Gazprom turns the natural gas taps back on to the Ukraine, but it will be a few days before the flow catches up to Europe. Embedded video from CNN Video
The following is an excerpt from “The Misperception of the Russian-Ukrainian Gas Problem“ by Dr. Gary Busch. The one problem with the article is the assumption that Igor Sechin’s clan holds a controlling interest over Gazpr...
I found this bit entertaining from the report that Dmitry Medvedev’s video blog will begin to accept and publish reader’s comments: In order to leave a comment on the president’s personal video blog, visitors will have to registe...
The Ukraine-Russia gas dispute has sent European natural gas prices to a three-year high, setting them up for a steep decline. Does the situation offer an opportunity for Europe to seek reforms of the gas trade, and in particular, of its ...
They say that for many, addiction is not a choice, but a disease. And for those of us who are Russia news junkies, we have lately had to subsist on a steady diet of repetitive, off-target reports on the Russia-Ukraine energy dispute. It’s ea...
Russia’s ruble is now at its weakest level in almost six years after the central bank devalued the currency again for the 13th time in two months on the first official trading day of 2009. Despite the measure being widely protested las...
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