The Moscow District Federal Arbitration Court has ordered oil company Russneft to pay $8.1 billion in back taxes. The amount includes 17 billion rubles in tax debts for 2005 and 3 billion rubles for 2003 and the first half of 2004. The decision “c...
A UK website has a new method of evaluating the qualities of sovereign wealth funds, and finds that Russia’s has a higher rating than that of Abu Dhabi. Dmitry Medvedev has commented on “The Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex” project, whi...
TODAY: Kasyanov barred from presidential election leaving just four candidates. Violence for governors and journalists. Russia to ban Indian plant imports? The Kremlin has barred Mikhail Kasyanov, its “last liberal opposition candidate”, from the ...
The Moscow Times has published a new compelling, powerful, and overwhelmingly urgent editorial condemning the Russian government’s blackmail against Yukos prisoner Vasily Alexanyan – a crass exercise of denying life-saving medical care...
Newspapers have recently been awash with headlines about the dramatic arrest of the Russian mob kingpin Semyon Mogilevich, a criminal mastermind sought by Western law enforcement agents for his innovative and complex money laundering schemes, as w...
This weekend the Globe and Mail is reporting on accusations by the former Russian spy Sergei Tretyakov, who claims that he assisted other UN agents in helping Russia steal $500 million from the UN’s oil-for-food program in Iraq. Describing t...
Deals in Serbia, Austria and Bulgaria see Russian energy power march on By Derek Brower, journalist IF YOU needed another example of the confusion in the EU’s energy policy, events in the past week provided it. In the space of just a few days Russ...
This won’t do much to help those market jitters: Financial Times: Gas exporters set to hold ‘gas Opec’ talks By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in Davos Leading gas producers will discuss the possible formation of “a gas Opec” at a summit in Mosco...
Today the Washington Post has broken a story revealing a private meeting between presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. John McCain and Russian billionaire and Kremlin loyalist Oleg Deripaska. This was apparently set up by Rick Davis, McCain’s campa...
Angola’s Opec cap is a headache for oil majors active in the country’s costly deep-water areas and will do no favours to the world oil-supply picture. By Tom Nicholls Earlier this month, ExxonMobil started production from the giant Kizomba C devel...
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