From Mike Sigov at the Toledo Blade: Russia’s figurehead president, Dmitry Medvedev, blamed the United States for “setting Russia up.” The absurdity of this accusation brings to mind Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawye...
Back in August, 2007, we were doing quite a lot of blogging about the shareholding arrangement between the large Canadian auto parts manufacturer and Oleg Deripaska’s Russian Machines – a business arrangement which generated a lot of s...
This is from Dmitry Medvedev’s joint press conference with Angela Merkel following the Petersburger Dialog: One of the complicated issues we discussed was the financial crisis. We have realised once again that the current global financial se...
Or perhaps I should say Igor Sechin has just added another job to his long list of government portfolios and extremely profitable business perks. Today it was announced that the silovik grand wizard has been nominated to the board of electricity t...
This is a very sad day for Russian democracy as one of the leading opposition parties, the Union of Right Forces, has voted to disband and form another party under the Kremlin’s control. The party’s decision was pushed by Anatoly Chuba...
There are reports in the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal about the Ukraine’s discussions with Russia on energy supply deals being hampered because of the country’s defense of Georgia’s sovereignty following the invasion i...
TNK-BP’s Russian managers have withdrawn a lawsuit against chief executive Robert Dudley that accused him of violating labor rights. Germany’s E.On agreed to swap part of its stake in Gazprom for an interest in Russia’s Yuzhno-Russkoye gas f...
Iron ore producer Metalloinvest announced that it will not hold an IPO this year, amidst news that Russia’s IPO record this year has been the worst since 2004. On Russia ‘lecturing’ the US about the financial crisis, and the perceived end of US he...
TODAY: Russia and Ukraine agree on gradual rise in energy prices, disagree over Georgian arms; Czech government suspicious of Russian intelligence; will troops withdraw from Georgia? Union of Right Forces disbands, Kremlin pressure suspected; Poli...
Or: How Gazprom’s call option on Eni’s stake in Gazprom Neft proves Yukos asset laundering – and I can’t believe I am the only one paying attention to it Just for rhetorical purposes, let’s imagine way back to that ti...
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