If you are like me, you have probably read about two dozen op/eds in the past year by highly respected thought leaders about how the West should “handle” a “resurgent” Russia. Here is one more from the FT: “How should...
Reuben F. Johnson at the Weekly Standard writes about the amusing case of Sergei Zhiltsov and Vladimir Barinov of United Russia, who were fired for suspected fraud for having solicited campaign contributions for Dmitri Medvedev before he was even ...
“Gazprom has taken advantage of the disarray inside the European Union by forging ahead with its own contracts with Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and now Serbia.” Serbia announced that Gazprom bought a 51% stake in NIS, its oil monopoly. Komi Regiongas...
TODAY: Medvedev makes his first major campaign address, targeting corruption and pledging peaceful development. Kasyanov criminal probe continues with accusations on both sides. Putin’s naval task force exercise “farcical”. Russia’s Prosecut...
Russia’s VEB state bank for development and foreign trade plans to swap its 5% stake in EADS for a holding in Russia’s state-owned aircraft maker United Aircraft Corp. Russia’s Transcontainer, a unit of railway monopoly RZhD, pla...
As though it weren’t enough for Nabucco to have to compete against the Gazprom-Eni South Stream project, locking the EU into just one supplier from the East. Then Turkmenistan had to go and pull a move out of the Kremlin’s book and cut...
This week’s big Gazprom news is that their bid to take over Serbia’s national energy monopoly, NIS, at a knockdown price was successful. A Fistful of Euros has an excellent post summarizing the various motives leading to Serbia offload...
[Read part 1 of this series here] Life Behind Bars – Part 2 By Grigory Pasko, journalist In every barrack in a colony there is a television. Therefore, in time free from work, the prisoners have the right to watch television shows until 22:0...
By now, readers have no doubt heard about how the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia has been inviting Russian employees of the beleaguered British Council to come down to the station for a little talk late at night. Naturally, the evil West...
The former PM and opposition candidate Mikhail Kasyanov has been accused by the authorities of forging signatures in his registration forms for candidacy in the presidential elections. With Kasyanov removed from elections, then the shoe-in success...
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