In just five years, a shadowy Geneva-based firm by the name of Gunvor has become the third largest oil trader in the world, projecting revenues of $70 billion this year. The Financial Times has a very interesting piece which takes a look at how su...
In this news clip, Armen Keteyian of CBS News investigates the activities of the Russian mafia in the United States, everywhere from Atlantic City to Newark to Brighton Beach…
From an editorial in the IHT: Now Steinmeier has one-upped himself, refusing to meet with the Dalai Lama when he comes to Germany on Friday, while Merkel is out of the country. The Foreign Ministry said Steinmeier was too busy. He did find time to...
From Theo Caldwell of the National Post: It must be terrifically tempting, in such a society, to keep one’s head down to stay out of trouble. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn observed in his seminal chronicle of the Soviet Terror, The Gulag Archipelago: ...
Later today Bob will weigh in with his views on the latest cabinet appointments, but those hoping for a full siloviki purge, they’ll have to keep holding their breath. Igor Sechin, chairman of Rosneft and a powerful figure in the Kremlin, wi...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced that his deputy, Igor Sechin, will manage a multibillion-dollar project to give Russia a modern fleet of ships for its “flourishing” energy sector. High oil prices are putting a strain on US ...
A new survey of business graduates suggests that the reputations of key emerging markets, including Russia, Eastern Europe and Asia, “discourage the best talent from working there.” State arms exporter Rosoboronexport is preparing a $4 billion arm...
TODAY: Judge admits pressure from the Kremlin; US military attachés made “uninvited visit” to aviation factory; Abkhazia leader wants Russian military base for “protection”; Moscow Mayor barred from entering Ukraine; Joseph Stalin, a national hero...
Marshall Goldman of Harvard University tells Bloomberg that the actual amount of power being transferred in Russia could be gleaned from the age difference between Medvedev and Putin, where each of them live, and reminds listeners that in theory M...
Back behind bars… «Oborona» movement coordinator Oleg Kozlovsky arrested Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. The meanness of this arrest, like, by the way, the previous one as w...
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