I sort of feel sorry for the press corps covering the Berlusconi-Putin Spaghetti summit in Sardinia – it must be difficult to constantly think up new questions that will not receive any substantive answers. That’s not to say that there...
Reciprocity is quite a loaded word in the energy debate, but essentially the concept calls for equitable, comparable, and fair terms of access into the energy markets of two partners – namely, if Gazprom can purchase distribution and sales a...
Remember back in the heady days of Russian IPOs – when companies like Rosneft and Sberbank, among dozens of others, led the charge in new stock listings on the London Stock Exchange? Alas, the past couple quarters have not been so robust due...
Presidential hopeful John McCain recently gave Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili a call to discuss the accusations that Moscow is attempting to annex parts of Georgia. Below is his statement on the issue. “I spoke today by phone ...
Investors believe oil prices could hit $125 a barrel over the coming weeks amid fears of supply shortages and a continued fall in the value of the dollar. Rising prices have triggered “a buyout scramble in the sector”. Gazprom and UES have ended a...
The Finance Ministry offered up to 300 billion rubles in government funds to Russian banks, but total borrowing at the final auction reached just 23.6 billion. The Economic Development and Trade Ministry has raised its inflation forecast for 2008 ...
TODAY: Presidential election results rigged? Russia’s Communist Party investigating validity of Putin’s United Russia plan. Putin in Sardinia with Berlusconi, writes off $4.5 billion Libya debt. Georgia responds angrily to Russia’s support of brea...
There’s an interesting interview with Andrei Piontkovsky over at CFR.org in which the commentator argues that Russia is nearing the end of its “confrontational cycle with the West” – however, it’s not because Medvedev...
“Annexation” is not a word heard frequently in the Russia debate, but it surfaced this week after Moscow established official relations with the separatist states of South Ossetia and Abkhazia – a move they had threatened to make...
It has become shorthand for journalists to describe Russia as “resurgent” and dramatically “more powerful” than it was in the year 2000. We generally accept this fact because of its impressive average economic growth of 6.4...
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