An oil deposit, which Russian state-controlled crude producer Rosneft is developing in East Siberia, will produce cheaper oil than Saudi crude. The company has dropped plans to sell convertible bonds to refinance debt, and says it will increase ou...
“Russia’s relations with the West, however difficult, have never been more intimate. What passes for the rule of law in Russia makes Westerners blench, yet business thrives.” For the first time this year, the Central Bank of Russia has annou...
TODAY: Medvedev sets out his program; Russia could join WTO this year. Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin press conference dominates the news. Duma to extend presidential term? Dmitry Medvedev has set out his program, pinpointing “freedom, private property ...
An impressive and powerful column from Tim Osborne of GML in the Moscow Times: How to Steal Legally By Tim Osborne Nothing seems to dampen the authorities’ enthusiasm to wipe out any trace of Yukos, which at one point was the country’s...
The Alliance for Liberals and Democrats for Europe, led by MEP Graham Watson, have unveiled a large countdown calendar board today displaying the number of days Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been held in prison, and the number of days until the Russian...
Here is an interesting tidbit from an energy article: The former Bulgarian Prime Minister Ivan Kostov is arguing that the Moscow is pushing to stalemate the EU on Kosovo not out of concern over separatist precedent, but because they benefit from c...
To my knowledge, vast stretches of Siberia are actually quite mountainous, but I won’t dither with another man’s metaphors. Energy Tribune reports on Russia’s stagnating oil production after the jump.
Here is a letter to the editor of the FT by energy expert Jonathan Stern: Important new Russian gas fields Sir, Regular readers of the Financial Times have no expectation that your leader page will ever say anything positive about Russia but, what...
From a Reuters story on Putin’s last official address: But there was no whiff of attraction when it came to a question about U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and her comment that former KGB officers can’t have souls. “A ...
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