Diagnosis: Pathological Lying Lying as a method of survival for today’s power By Grigory Pasko, journalist In our family a nine-year-old child fell ill. Fever, coughing, stuffy nose… A typical picture at the end of winter, when a child’s organism ...
Here is a new column RA wrote for Project Syndicate. It is being carried by The Daily Star, among other newspapers. The Gazpromization of EU Energy Security By Robert R. Amsterdam Friday, February 22, 2008 The term “energy security” in...
In the Democrats’ presidential primary debate last night in Austin, Texas, both Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama called for the release of political prisoners: Sen. Clinton: “I’m going to be looking for some of those changes:...
This one comes from Reuters: Putin introduced the 42-year-old Medvedev to leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as “one of the candidates” in the March 2 election, but left no doubt he was more than that. “The C...
Total and StatoilHydro have landed a major deal with Gazprom to create a joint venture to develop phase 1 of the Shtokman Field. AP reports that “The new operating company, based in Zug, Switzerland, will plan, finance and build the first st...
Lufthansa is in big political trouble once again in Russia, after tax authorities froze the accounts Tuesday over demands that the airline give up between $7.4 million and $10.3 million in outstanding payments. Renault has ponied up to buy a 25% s...
TODAY: Russia’s envoy lashes out at West over Kosovo, protests shall proceed despite ban, Tymoshenko talks gas with Putin, and the world reacts to the U.S. shooting down a satellite. After Serbian nationalists set fire to the U.S. Embassy in...
Russia’s finance community is officially head-over-heels in love with the president-to-be Dmitri Medvedev, whose soothing promises of legal reform and liberal institution building are music to their ears. A recent note to clients of Alfa Bank, for...
Stratfor is reporting that Belorussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has given a vitriolic interview with two Russian television stations in which he attacks Vladimir Putin as being a weak leader for allowing Kosovo’s delcaration of independ...
“He has a strong personal brand, undimmed self-belief, a devoted public following, a distinctive balding pate and – unlike Adam Applegarth – plentiful experience of bringing private-sector assets gently under the wing of the stat...
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