Powerful Russians seem to have a reputation for vindictive behaviour. Whether deserved or not, it seems to be the root of this curious rumour regarding an Austrian investor. Sonja Kohn disappeared from public view after it has emerged that h...
Crude oil has risen above $50 a barrel to a five-week high, and the cut off of Russian gas to Ukraine and Europe has led to an increase in natural gas prices. The chief executive of Italy’s Eni may have been feeling serene about the cr...
TODAY: Gas row dominates the press as Gazprom cuts off all supplies to Ukraine.Gazprom has confirmed that it shut off of all gas deliveries through Ukrainian territory – about 80% of all Russian gas – early this morning, sparking outra...
The case of Dr. Chee Soon Juan, the beleaguered Singaporeon opposition leader who government officials have sought to shut down with repeated phony lawsuits and charges, has taken a turn for the worse as a new trumped up charge has essentially mad...
One would think that if you were the head of a multinational energy firm based in a country that imports 87% of its energy, you would be worried, or at least mildly perturbed, regarding the dramatic escalations in the natural gas dispute between R...
Over at Transitions Online, Aleksandr Kolesnichenko writes about the increasing pressure against radio station owners out in the far-flung regions of Russia carrying content from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, who can even sometimes face crimina...
During the last showdown between Gazprom and the Ukraine in 2006, there were two competing narratives about the company’s motivations behind the supply cut – one arguing that the dispute was purely commercial, and the other pointing to...
An excellent quote pulled from Roger Boyes op/ed in the Times of London: “Gazprom itself is neither good nor bad,” say the Russian authors Valery Panyushkin and Mikhail Sygar, “it is like a Kalashnikov or a Colt that can be used ...
Clifford Gaddy of Brookings and Barry Ickes of Pennsylvania State University have a new piece on the Putin economic model in The National Interest. As usual with this publication, we have a number of disagreements about the piece, its underl...
National Public Radio has a three-part series on the Russia-Ukraine natural gas war this week, which seems to be all anybody is talking about today. I’m pleased to see that they are at least focusing on the Germans. Part 1: The p...
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