A new article at the European Voice calls upon the European Union to get its act together with a common energy policy to achieve bargaining parity with Gazprom: Imagine, say, winter 2015, and an announcement by Gazprom that it cannot provide the g...
According to one UK newspaper, the Nord Stream project is either “the answer to Europe’s energy needs, a multibillion-pound black hole, [or] a Kremlin conspiracy.” Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has met with Vladimir Putin and Pri...
“If RusAl and Norilsk Nickel merge, Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service could demand the creation of a commodity exchange trading in non-ferrous metals.” Vladimir Potanin’s Interros, a key shareholder in Norilsk Nickel, is cons...
TODAY: Russia sets up new democracy think tank abroad; Adamov sentenced. Putin and Medvedev unveil $1bn aviation project; Medvedev is “ignoring” the presidential race; Russia expresses concern over US missile. Hot on the heels of news that Kenneth...
The Reuters news blogger Oleg Shchedrov is obsessed with how Dmitri Medvedev fails to live up to the muzhik image, given that he didn’t look like he was having very much fun inspecting Kalashnikov factories and sitting in Yakovlev training j...
Below is a featured exclusive translation from an upcoming issue of Lev Ponomarev’s weekly human rights bulletin about access to medical treatment inside Russia’s Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments (FSIN). The All-Russia ...
Mark Medish of Carnegie points out how Operation Successor Russia is making the job of the media very easy: “Medvedev’s impending victory makes the job of the domesticated Russian media easier. Like on-file obituaries, the post-election stor...
That’s how the Associated Press has described the Russian blogosphere, where the postings “are sometimes barbed, frequently satirical and always unfiltered — a marked contrast to most of Russia’s major media, where many reporters...
When looking for insightful political analysis over complex issues of authoritarianism, resource nationalism, and human rights abuses, of course Western culture tends to look toward its rock stars. Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, however, boldly demons...
Alalam is reporting that Gazprom has reached terms with the Iranian state energy company for the development of “two or three” blocks of the massive South Pars natural gas field. Gazpromneft also landed a participation deal in oil refi...
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