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June 28, 2008

Siberian Thaw for EU Relations?

The Financial Times has an editorial today about the EU-Russia Summit held at the end of this week in Siberia, commenting that if they can begin to “treat each other with the respect they deserve,” then they can finally get over the ye...
June 28, 2008

Russia’s New World Order

Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post has a column today addressing Dmitry Medvedev’s foreign policy ambitions, and Russia’s attempt to create a “new world order” by fundamentally changing the postwar global security architec...
June 27, 2008

Alexei Miller Interview Transcript

Today the Financial Times has some good articles on Gazprom, and below the cut is the full transcript of the paper’s interview with CEO Alexei Miller. He sticks to his guns on $250 oil, the futility of OPEC, and other scary sounding ideas to...
June 27, 2008

Mapping the Abkhazia Conflict

Today the terrific blog Global Voices links to a useful map explaining the Russia-Georgia disputes over Abkhazia. From The Reference Frame: Look at the map. Start with the yellow disk, a global perspective. We are discussing the piece of land (blu...
June 27, 2008

Kasparov: Western Fantasies of the Russian Reality

Garry Kasparov, tireless as ever, fires another missive slamming the Kremlin for soft censorship and repression of the press, citing the willingness of Western media to help paint a positively innocent picture of today’s Russia. Like many of...
June 27, 2008

Scotland Yard Investigates Georgi Markov

In a move that is unlikely to ease UK-Russia tensions, Scotland Yard has reopened its investigation of the 1978 murder of Bulgarian émigré Georgi Markov, who was famously assassinated via a poison pellet believed to have been delivered by a spy...
June 27, 2008

Energy Blast – June 27, 2008

If upheld by a court, AAR’s new accusation that a recently elected TNK-BP board is “illegal” could cripple BP’s ability to manage its Russian assets and refineries. Stan Polovets says that the last straw before the current row was a dispute ...
June 27, 2008

Today in Russian Business – June 27, 2008

Moscow’s arbitration court upheld a $10 million tax claim against German airline Lufthansa’s Russian operator, despite its attempt to appeal. The Bank of Cyprus has clinched a deal to buy 80% of Russian bank Uniastrum for $576 million. The n...
June 27, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 27, 2008

TODAY: EU-Russia summit begins amid row over wood tariffs with Finland; Russia’s “image problem”; Georgia suggests splitting Abkhazia; Kremlin funding pro-government movies? First reports from the EU-Russia summit say Dmitry Medvedev is “striking ...