Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, has been denied for the first time ever a visa to enter the Russian Federation, according to Kommersant. Roth was preparing to travel to Moscow to present a new 72-page report on Russia e...
We were going to incorporate excerpts from this important article by Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal into a few other blog posts, but due to popular demand…
Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, arrives in Moscow today to meet with Russia’s Prime Minister Victor Zubkov and to try and finally put an end to the countries’ gas disputes. Meawhile, Ukraine’s state energy firm Naftog...
Russia’s fast-growing steel pipe industry “is in danger of overheating” as the country’s biggest producers build more capacity than required to meet demand for oil and gas pipelines. Miner and steel maker Severstal will invest $140 mil...
TODAY: Algeria accuses Russia of trying to sell it “substandard” aircraft; Russian Nationalists oppose Medvedev; further harsh words traded over Kosovo; UK press speculates over Russia’s past and future. One UK paper today debates the future of Ru...
Remember Oleg Shvartsman? The dimunitive, shiny-pated venture capitalist who blew the doors off the Kremlin by dropping the “velvet reprivatization” bomb in a Kommersant interview? It appears business has gone south for him and Finansg...
[see Part 1 of this series here] Déja-vu in Brussels – Part 2 Grigory Pasko, journalist By the way… On 11 February 2008, the press secretary of Gazprom management board chairman Alexey Miller, Sergey Kupriyanov, said on the air on the radio ...
Right now as I am writing this, Nymex crude oil has just dropped back down $99.94 a barrel after briefly surpassing $100. Many analysts are pointing toward several contributing factors behind today’s commodity rally, including a refinery out...
As long as we’ve got some other Arctic news today, there’s also an interesting op/ed in Ontario’s Peterborough Examiner about the “acute embarrassment” of how far behind the United States is in developing a policy for...
The New York Times has a very interesting article today about a retired U.S. Navy officer, Alfred S. McLaren, who claims that the Russians stole his idea and plan for a polar dive under the Arctic ice cap, which of course resulted in the polemical...
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