I will confess to feeling a certain level of exhaustion with the Ukraine-Russia natural gas dispute. Therefore I’ll let the Economist do some heavy lifting for me, which describes the fight in three layers – the pricing, the poli...
The ongoing natural gas war between Russia and the Ukraine, which although will likely be resolved soon, has lasted long enough to achieve the objective paradoxically sought by both Moscow and Kiev: it has scared the hell out of the European...
The Czech Republic took up the EU presidency this month – just in time to deal with a number of volatile Russian issues. The Czechs have dealt with plenty of their own volatile Russian issues in recent history, but anyone curious about...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has long been advocating the elimination of RosUkrEnergo, calling it a ‘criminal enterprise’ and linking it to corruption in the gas industry as far back as 2005. Now analysts are discuss...
Vladimir Putin’s insistence that Ukraine pay market prices for gas may sound reasonable, but it means an increase of at least 22% in Kiev’s gas bill for the year. Bulgaria, the country worst-affected by the gas cuts, has been for...
An attempt by oligarch Alexander Lebedev (profiled in yesterday’s Guardian, and who already holds a 49% stake in independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the paper which employed murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya) to buy UK newspaper The Ev...
Back when Vladislav Surkov invented “sovereign democracy,” we pegged it as the Brezhnev Doctrine revisited – much less a real political philosophy, and more a functional and durable rhetorical device to explain why Russian citize...
TODAY: EU and Russia agree on monitoring of gas deliveries, but gas has yet to resume flowing; Putin defends Russia’s position again, using Georgia as an example; US and Georgia to sign charter.The gas row continues, with hundreds of thousan...
Matthias Schepp in Spiegel Online tots up some of the more egregious losses of Russia’s spectacular spenders as a result of the economic crisis, and offers a few suggestions as to why the Kremlin is pouring so much money into bailing out its...
Remember back when the Iranians happily announced that Russia would soon begin delivering a supply of the S-300 Missile System, only to find out that later the same day Russian officials denied the reports, saying that no such shipments were plann...
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