Below is a short outtake from a recent Robert Amsterdam speech at the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this short clip, Bob describes all the steps taken by the Russian prosecutors to...
$100,000 says we are running out of oil faster than you think, peak-oil group tells US consultancy The Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA (Aspo-USA) is so sure that world oil-supply growth will fall short of a recent forecast by a US energy...
The lack of investment reciprocity between Europe and Russia, especially in energy assets, is beginning to raise some concerns among officials – especially considering that the president-to-be recently called upon the business sector to go o...
Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom will sign a deal to buy the entire annual gas output from the Sakhalin-1 field of U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil in April-May. Gazprom has booked the band Deep Purple to fly from the UK to Moscow to perform at a spe...
Renault, the world’s fourth-largest carmaker, will share its technological expertise with Russia’s Avtovaz when it completes its purchase of a 25% stake in the “troubled carmaker”. Norcross, an arm of Russia’s Kapital Insurance Group, ...
TODAY: Conflicting reports on Vasily Aleksanyan’s situation. Russia expresses doubts over Iran’s test launch. US Energy Department is funding Russia’s support of Iran. Possible problems with Russia’s WTO accession. It is being reported that Russia...
In tomorrow’s edition of the Financial Times there is remarkable coverage given to the latest developments in the Khodorkovsky case. After the jump, some of the articles. Comments will be forthcoming from Robert Amsterdam. The lead editorial...
Below is a partial transcript of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s interview with the Financial Times on Feb. 6 in a Chita court. Transcript of Khodorkovsky interview highlights Partial transcript of the FT’s interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, conduc...
Here is a particularly strange bit of news from Russia – the debut of a romantic film about the private life of Vladimir Putin, though the producers adamantly claim otherwise: “For the first time we have the chance to take a look at the life...
Last year during a trip to Germany, Grigory Pasko agreed to tape some interviews for this blog to discuss his background, experience as a journalist in Russia, political trials under Putin, and numerous other subjects. With the presidential “...
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