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Energy Blast, Feb. 14, 2008
RosUkrEnergo, the murky gas-trading vehicle half-owned by Gazprom, will continue to handle sales from Russia to Ukraine until a replacement, to be joint owned by Gazprom and Naftogaz, can be set up. First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said...
Today in Russian Business
British banking giant Barclays, “whose investment-banking arm left Russia in 1999 nursing $250 million in losses,” could be poised to acquire small-size lender Expobank. President Vladimir Putin, at his last news conference as President, praised t...
RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb. 14, 2008
TODAY: Medvedev wants 24-hour farming TV; advertising firms being coerced for billboard space in run-up to elections. News of Patarkatsishvili death hits the British press; Yushchenko to pass law on military bases following Putin’s threats. Presid...
Lev Ponomarev on Working within the System
This one is from the Boston Globe: Freedom and fear: a Russian paradox By Cathy Young February 13, 2008 OPTIMISM is not an attitude one would expect these days from a human rights activist in Russia – not when, after rigged parliamentary ele...
Video: Bret Stephens Discusses Russia’s Torture Colonies
Following his column about Lev Ponomarev, Bret Stephens of the WSJ discusses the story on this video. The Journal linked to our video on YouTube, which received about 15,000 views within 24 hours.
Putin’s Real Legacy
In a new editorial, the New York Times takes aim at the Kremlin’s favorite narrative that Russia was in hopelessly dire straits before Vladimir Putin took power, and that the solution to all the country’s ills was to reign in the oliga...
Energy Blast, Feb. 13, 2008
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine settled a row over gas debts just minutes before a Moscow-imposed deadline for Kiev to pay up or face supply cuts. The countries agreed to axe intermediaries in gas trade and RosUkrEnergo has been excluded, alt...
Today in Russian Business
Sberbank, Russia’s largest state-controlled bank, has started actively buying shares on the market. An embargo on travel and trade between Georgia and Russia that has lasted almost 16 months could end as early as this month. The flagship Mos...
RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb. 13, 2008
TODAY: Putin threatens to target missiles at Ukraine but Russia wants a ban on the use of weapons in space; Russia’s ‘Corporate Raiders’; Boris Nemtsov suspends membership of Union of Right Forces. Vladimir Putin will give his seventh and final an...
