Jeffrey R. Nyquist reads Sergei Tretyakov’s book and gets some good quotes from Andrei Illarionov about the disturbing new pattern created by authoritarian capitalism: Yet there is a rule, if you can call it a rule: The Kremlin regularly sei...
Oxford Analytica has a great piece up quoting political scientist Dr. Alena Ledeneva of the University College of London, who says that investors are pulling away from BP’s despite the company’s insistence that their assets in Russia a...
Gazprom is poised to become the world’s second-most profitable company, generating a net income of $41.5 billion, topped only by global leader ExxonMobil. A presidential spokesman for the Ukraine announced that monopoly natural gas operator ...
Industrial giant ArcelorMittal has completed the purchase of three coal mines in Russia from Severstal for a total of $651.8 million. Merrill Lynch Chairman and CEO John Thain says the group is placing its bets on growth from abroad, citing strong...
TODAY: Russia promises a response if Ukraine and Georgia enter NATO, helps Mongolia go nuclear, making deals on grain, Kosovo is worries about Ban Ki-Moon, and a major court decision limited property seizures. The Russian Army’s chief of sta...
Vladimir Milov: “Nord Stream – this is an reckless project” By Grigory Pasko, journalist Recently, information was placed on the website of the company Nord Stream about how the technical maintenance of the Nord Stream gas pipeline is feasible wit...
Here is an interview with Andrei Gaidamaka, Director of Strategic Development for Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil producer. Gaidamaka talks about $100 oil, demand forecasts, and away from the plummeting dollar. Today Lukoil also posted ...
This blog has carried several posts about the trials and travails of William Browder and Hermitage Capital in Russia, a surprising story about how the largest foreign holder of Russians stock and a highly regarded goodwill ambassador of the govern...
Michael J. Economides and Donna Marie D’Aleo have written an important chapter for a new Energy Report published by Transitions Online, which takes a comprehensive look at the early legacy of Yukos – even going so far as to tell the story of...
The biggest Russia energy story of the day comes from the International Herald Tribune, reporting that Gazprom and Eni are preparing to join forces to build a natural gas pipeline from Libya to the European Union. The IHT reports: Some analysts de...
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