“OPEC ought to do what it can in the short run to hasten a price decline and guard against a drop in oil use.” Gazprom has announced that it will raise tariffs on the supply of gas to Armenia, step by step. “Unconventional oil is the future, both ...
A railway linking Russia and Iran via Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan will open in December 2011. Metalloinvest, the iron ore and steel company owned by billionaire Alisher Usmanov, plans to float up to 25% of its shares in an initial public offering ...
TODAY: Medvedev to assume personal responsibility in battle against corruption; Global Peace Index ranks Russia low on its list; Cyprus court refuses to extradite former Yukos executive; libel bill will not be passed; Georgia could support Russia’...
From EDM: These changes have meant “the breakup” of the siloviki, Ekspert magazine wrote in its latest issue. “The appointment of Igor Sechin as deputy prime minister for industry and energy … guarantees that he will retain the influence on the ra...
Russia’s Interfax news agency has, rather remarkably, picked up yesterday’s sensational interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the Sunday Times. But with a twist. While the emphasis of the Sunday Times article is clearly on Khodorkovsky’s naming o...
Kommersant reported on Friday that Vladimir Putin has proposed to reorganize the structure of the Russian government (Kommersant, “Putin to Reogranize Govt”, 16 May, 2008). He wants to replace full cabinet meetings with a new body, to ...
[See Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series.] Nord Stream, Scandinavian Style Beware of Greeks bearing gifts Part 4 Grigory Pasko, journalist The administration building of the residence of the governor of the island of Gotland is found on the ...
The Oborona youth movement leader Oleg Kozlovsky has a column running in the Washington Post today, explaining the conditions of his recent arrest, and arguing that “the only real possibility for changing the political regime in Russia today...
Russia has reportedly sent a fleet of nuclear-powered ice breakers into the Arctic, and many fear that Moscow will attempt to illegally annex some of the potentially gas and oil rich region. Igor Sechin says Rosneft’s stellar growth proves t...
Steel producer Severstal is set to issue $1.5 billion in Eurobonds, which it could invest in a purchase of US steelmaker Esmark. It is also reportedly buying WCI Steel, another American asset, for $140 million. “Siberia, where Russians waited in l...
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