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September 12, 2008

Energy Blast – Sept 12, 2008

The International Energy Agency predicts that global oil demand could fall to its lowest level in six years this year. Exxon Mobil and Shell are both shutting refineries in anticipation of Hurricane Ike. LUKoil’s two major shareholders have increa...
September 12, 2008

Today in Russian Business – Sept 12, 2008

As the MICEX fell for the third day in a row, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that foreign capital inflows could fall by 45% this year, but that he does not believe the drop is related to the Georgian war. Alexei Kudrin says Russia is consideri...
September 12, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Sept 12, 2008

TODAY: Putin’s three-hour interview both “pugilistic and needy”; Medvedev focuses on military; confusion over South Ossetia’s aims; ongoing tension over Georgia affecting UN debates. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave a three-hour interview yester...
September 11, 2008

Video: Russia Mourns 9/11

I think it is very respectful and commendable that despite these current days of war, extreme diplomatic hostilities, and fundamental disagreements between the United States and Russia over the future direction of the international system, that so...
September 11, 2008

Grigory Pasko: Day of the Prisoner

Day of the Prisoner Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. On the website Grani.ru, the writer Eduard Limonov, who heads the National-Bolshevik Party (which has been banned in Russ...
September 11, 2008

The Accidental Annexation

Eduard Kokoity, the former wrestler and South Ossetian separatist, today offered conflicting versions of his new country’s relations with Moscow, saying originally his new government’s strategy was to join Russia but now disavowing the...
September 11, 2008

McKremlin and the Dual State

The other day we linked to a sardonic column by Yulia Latynina which commented on the contradiction between Russia’s current rampant anti-Westernism combined with its enthusiastic embrace of its well marketed branded goods. In a similar vein...
September 11, 2008

The Siloviki Seizure of Russia’s Economy

Bill Powell at Fortune magazine has a very interesting piece running about the methods and tactics used by Vladimir Putin’s inner circle of former KGB officers to seize control of the economy. With the markets in free fall after the diplomat...
September 11, 2008

Energy Blast – Sept 11, 2008

What is the future looking like for the Nabucco gas pipeline, designed to bypass Russia? The head of Transneft says that Russia’s new $14 billion oil pipeline to China secures Moscow’s exports against potential EU hostility. German Chancellor Ange...
September 11, 2008

Today in Russian Business – Sept 11, 2008

Read a factfile on Russia’s raising of its wood tariffs, which will double costs for Nordic paper mills. Some mills, including Stora Enso, are pre-emptively outlining job cuts in anticipation of higher costs. President Dmitry Medvedev is blaming t...