Today the Guardian has a good piece on William Browder of Hermitage Capital, who along with HSBC is suing the Russian government, is alleging that high-placed officials within the Interior Ministry participated in corporate identity theft and a co...
For a long time I had been hoping against hope that somehow relations with Russia would finally earn a spot on the list of debate topics for U.S. politics (it is quite difficult to contend with Iraq and Afghanistan in the exceptionally narrow band...
BP has finally agreed to a peace deal with its Russian partners over the future of their joint venture, TNK-BP. The oil firm announced yesterday that embattled chief executive Robert Dudley will leave TNK-BP by the end of the year, as part of an a...
Russian stocks plummeted and the cost to protect government bonds from default jumped to the highest in nearly four years as the central bank shored up its currency pummeled by the ongoing conflict in Georgia and tumbling commodity prices. In Mosc...
TODAY: U.S. Dignitaries (McCain, Rice, Cheney) issue warnings Russia is deepening its international isolation and threatening U.S. security. Lavrov rejects Cheney’s attack on Russia. Russia accuses the United States of encouraging Georgian a...
It seems it has become very popular in many parts of the world to form broad political alliances based upon not much more than mutual distrust and distaste of Washington’s policies. Hugo Chavez should probably sent the Russian nationalist Al...
This one is pretty entertaining from Dominic Lawson at the Independent: I found the following memo – as you do – under a half-finished cup of coffee on the train to Waterloo. Coffee stains made it difficult to read, but it seemed to have come from...
Today’s Financial Times features some great reporting and graphic displays of Europe’s dependence on Russian energy. Ed Crooks is not exactly rosy about the EU’s prospects for diversification: “Geography and economics dicta...
Who says the Associated Press doesn’t produce hard hitting reports from Russia anymore? Wow, Putin is having a rough couple of months here… In its September “Sexy Rating” list, the glamor magazine ranks who it considers the...
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