A new report indicates that the total volume of assets in sovereign wealth funds grew by 27% in 2007 and continue to exert influence on the world financial market. Consultancy Global Insight says that, if sovereign wealth funds continued to expand...
TODAY: New reports on media freedom and population; Abramovich was an “undeclared member of President Putin’s regime”?; WTO talks progress despite Georgian and Lithuanian reservations; Sochi land evaluation commission will be lighter than promised...
An announcement: In case you’ve been wondering what’s happened to our correspondent Grigory Pasko, he’s spent the past two weeks on assignment, filming and doing interviews in four countries – Finland, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark – in an attempt ...
For fans of the iconic film “The Godfather,” John Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell’s article in the National Interest, which proposes a mafioso view on dominant foreign policy paradigms, will be quite amusing. For anyone who’s ...
Energy corruption and Gazprom’s job offer to Prodi Ladies and gentlemen, we now have the official beginning of an ignominious trend in EU-Russia energy relations: the hiring of former heads of state to manage Russian gas and oil mega-projects they...
For those who haven’t been listening, Russia’s got herself a new sovereign wealth fund – a $25 billion portfolio which will soon begin snapping up foreign company shares and corporate bonds all over the world, and no doubt raisin...
Fred Hiatt has an opinion column in the Washington Post today entitled “The Gymnast and the Czar,” which makes light of the damaging effect of Russia’s creeping authoritarianism on emerging democracies in the post-Soviet sphere, ...
Azerbaijan has blocked a Russian shipment of nuclear equipment to Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit India and Pakistan this week to discuss plans for an Iranian gas pipeline. Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller could offer Romano Prodi,...
Inflation is still a top government concern amid fears that a further spike in costs is on the way. Entertainment prices are also on the rise. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says inflation will not exceed 10% this year. Russia may invest as much a...
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