Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov was probably worried about losing his heavyweight title as champion of the soundbite in Russian politics. So this weekend he brought the thunder, and declared that the upcoming elections would be illegitimat...
It’s no secret that Russia has been agressively targeting Hungary and Bulgaria in its pipeline strategy – promising powerful roles as gas distribution hubs for the region (quite similarly to what Serbia was promised allegedly in exchan...
We’ve recently blogged about the boost given to the Nabucco pipeline project from the enlistment of RWE, as well as the potential concerns over Turkmenistan’s reliability as a supplier (the recent cut-off of supply to Iran caused a dom...
The share of the world’s oil reserves controlled by big Western oil companies, such as BP, Shell and ExxonMobil, has fallen to less than 10%, compared with 70% in 1978; and world reserves are dominated increasingly by government-controlled n...
Rising Russian prices caused by the oil boom is causing havoc for Russian firms. The head of Polyus Gold comments, “There’s no infrastructure, no power, no roads. Electricity costs twice what they pay in Alaska and Canada. We face a Soviet b...
TODAY: Medvedev begins official campaign, emphasizes continuity of power. Poland reaches missile agreement with United States; Russia may withdraw offer. Nashi denies imminent demise. More on the “new Cold War” – the West is already losing, ...
An image with an unpleasant odor By Grigory Pasko, journalist In European countries I’ve lived in many different hotels; eaten in many different restaurants and more modest eateries, but everywhere I saw one constant: outstanding croissants. In Mo...
In the Guardian’s Comment is Free, Mark McDonald writes “As a human rights lawyer, I was shocked to hear of the plight of Vasily Alexanyan. In 2006, just three days after he was appointed an executive vice president of the Russian oil ...
George Will at the Washington Post writes about how to handle the new challenge (and occasional hysteria) of sovereign wealth funds: “Calmness, combined with vigilance, is sensible. Calmness, because the funds are a small fraction of the wor...
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal featured a column on the Kremlin’s successful efforts to jam and distort free press both within and outside of Russia: Kremlin More Subtly Jams Freedom’s Beams Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss p...
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