The New York Times has an editorial today about Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his latest wave of expropriations. One can read such an item and easily substitute “Russia” and “Vladimir Putin” to get a precise and deva...
Some time ago, BP got into big trouble with the Russian authorities – call them a collateral casualty of the lawlessness kicked off by another well known expropriation. But clearly the corporation has been following a strategy to resolve thi...
Gazprom is to buy majority control of TNK-BP for $20 billion by the end of the year. It was reported that Gazprom had warned its patience was running out in the talks to finalize the purchase of Kovykta from TNK-BP. Serbian lawmakers will delay ra...
Former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin denied in court that he had ever been ordered to commit murder by Yukos shareholder Leonid Nevzlin, and claimed that Federal Security Service agents gave him psychotropic drugs in 2003. State-run Rostekh...
TODAY: Clashes during IOC visit in Sochi over housing. Military parade planned for May 9. Russia firm on support for Georgia’s breakaway regions. The Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church. Practice for a May 9 parade of Russian military hardware...
Republican nominee for the U.S. presidential election, Sen. John McCain, is easily the most outspoken of the bunch on Russia, often making brave and provocative comments about his plans for relations with the Kremlin. But who has this nominee̵...
The following news footage, which is refreshingly free of commentary, shows Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev attending the memorial service for Boris Yeltsin, who passed away one year ago today. According to news reports, Putin’s speech wa...
Twelve years after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke goes back to review and criticize the progress toward the goals. On follow up, he awards Russia an “F” for running interference on the diplo...
Blogger Tim Newman has a great comprehensive post about the staggering investment figures, often fudged and bandied about by state officials, that are required for Russia’s energy sector to get production online at current and new offshore f...
The Associated Press reports on a Council of Europe delegation currently visiting Russia on a fact-finding trip to ascertain whether or not the Federation is living up to its member obligations to the Council in terms of human rights: Luc Van den ...
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