Things were looking a little slow for Russian finance for a while there. No doubt many of those analysts pushing the “decoupling” argument got fired after the RTS tanked amid the credit crisis on Wall Street, and despite politicians bo...
Russia will increase natural gas exports to Pacific Rim countries from the current 3% to 30% of its total exports by 2020. Gazprom says Russia will be able to completely satisfy the growing demand for gas in Greece. The two countries have signed a...
The US Department of Agriculture says Russia has banned US pork imports from two Tyson Fresh Meats plants and two Farmland Foods plants as of May 5. VTB, Russia’s second largest bank, has launched a $1 billion loan into syndication. Gold and...
TODAY: Foreign Ministry threatens retaliatory measures for Georgia, denies it is preparing for military confrontation; Lithuania blocks Russia-EU progress; Boris Nemtsov’s white paper; Medvedev says Russian media has become “a bit boring” due to t...
Nord Stream – from a Finnish perspective: interviews with Heidi Hautala and Erkki Hollo By Grigory Pasko, journalist In one of the magazine articles, the author, clearly sympathetic towards «Gazprom» and its latest spawn – Nord Stream – wrote: “No...
Yes, that’s right – Poland, the same country whose leaders have so regularly berated and criticized Vladimir Putin, is now declaring the second coming with the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski ha...
Giorgi Baramidze, Georgia’s Deputy Prime Minister, has an interview with CNN in which he expresses exasperation with the strained friendships with Western governments, who have done little to help with Tbilisi’s problems with Moscow. A...
There’s an interesting interview with Tanya Lokshina, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, on EurActiv.com dealing with EU-Russian relations and the “credibility gap” on human rights. Lokshina says that private domestic sourc...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a U.S. government funded media outlet originally established to “promote democratic values and institutions by disseminating factual information and ideas“, has experienced a lot of resistance over its ...
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has turned down a Gazprom offer to become chairman of the South Stream natural-gas pipeline. One article links the offer to Gazprom’s attempt to “muscle up politically”. BP says profit at TNK-BP rose more than f...
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