A few days ago, the CEO of the Italian energy group Eni told everybody he felt calm and “serene” with regard to Gazprom’s decision to cut off all gas flowing through the Ukraine, leaving half a dozen countries freezing. Nat...
Many journalists, like Mary Dejevsky in The Independent, are calling for spectators to take a balanced view of the Ukraine-Russia gas dispute and insisting that Ukraine is as much to blame for Europe’s crisis as any other party. But to...
Analysts fear that the widening Gaza conflict will affect Middle East oil supplies, after Lebanese rockets hit Israel, sending the price of oil up. Venezuela has reduced oil exports to the US, China and Europe as part of an OPEC output cut d...
TODAY: Russia in talks with Ukraine and EU to attempt to solve the gas crisis; Bulgaria and others in state of emergency; Orthodox Christmas.The EU, Russia and Ukraine are holding talks today, following preliminary negotiations last night, to try ...
The French daily newspaper Le Monde has published a profile of Robert Amsterdam. The original article can be viewed online here – below is an English translation. Le Monde, Portrait, January 8, 2009 Robert Amsterdam, Lawyer without bar...
From Llewellyn King: No building in Moscow says “Soviet Union” so much as the headquarters of Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly. It is more foreboding than the Lubyanka, the former headquarters and torture emporium of the KGB. The roma...
I don’t often link over to the mainstream blogs, but we do regularly read what may be a surprising diversity of them. This one comes from Matthew Yglesias (on the situation in Gaza) which I thought was insightful. For my part, I think ...
Yesterday Michael Idov had a piece in the New Republic warning readers not to misunderstand the automobile tariff protest uprisings in Russia as any kind of real political movement – yet. Outraged citizens who took to the streets over ...
The strategy of the national security of Russia to the year 2020 will be confirmed at a session of the Security Council of Russia on 20 February of the year 2009. Certain details of this document were published, as if by chance, in the local media...
Time is running out…but for who? The EU Presidency, currently residing with Mirek Topolanek, the Czech prime minister, has just issued Russia with a 24-hour deadline to restore gas supplies to the EU via Ukraine’s pipelines, but ...
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