Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao have signed a ‘much-delayed’ agreement under which Transneft will supply China with oil via a new section of its ESPO pipeline. A new report from the International Energy Agency shows th...
As part of a number of significant new financial agreements, China could lend Russian companies $20-30 billion. Silver miner Polymetal is having trouble keeping up with the demands of the financial crisis, although Russian imports are apparently n...
TODAY: EU to resume Russia discussions; Britain ready to open relations with Russia once again; Russian passports in Ukraine?; Medvedev responds to US sanctions. The result of an EU delegation meeting with Russian foreign ministers is that the EU ...
RIA Novosti and TASS are both reporting that a jury at the Moscow City Court has reached a guilty verdict for the former businessman and banker Alexei Frenkel, who stands accused of organizing the murder of central banker and money laundering crus...
La Russophobe has posted a translation of a very, very good column by Yuliya Latynina in Novaya Gazeta about the fifth anniversary of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s arrest. Latynina poignantly argues “The people surrounding president Putin wer...
We often pointed out the amusing foibles of those who attempt to inject Russia issues into the U.S. partisan debate. Sometimes it seems that liberals find themselves cowed into a defensive posture, praising the public benefits of Putinist authorit...
The following is a translation of an opinion column by Grigory Pasko published in the German newspaper Tagesspiegel. Joyful Books, Sad Truths By Grigory Pasko There is a funny book in Russia, the Russian Federation’s penal code. It is funny becaus...
Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the British bank Barclays is looking to raise some $10 billion in capital from Kremlin-controlled banks Sberbank and VTB. The bank has studiously avoided any government bailout plan in the UK, which ...
The attentive reader may recall that Sergei Lavrov got a little bit prickly in response to U.S. sanctions on the state arms exporter Rosoboronexport. During yesterday’s press debriefing at the State Department, one journalist got a brief res...
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