UK gas bills could rise 17% this year, with the price increase reportedly being “blamed on Russian supplier Gazprom”. Gazprom’s moves to tap Nigeria’s huge energy reserves “will send shivers through western governments already concerned about a sh...
TODAY: Russian Christmas; Clinton on Putin; Georgian elections – Russia doubts democracy; Poland signals stronger position on missile defense shield; Russia and the Middle East; could Russia give the OSCE a hard time this year? It is Christm...
Analysts praising Russia’s strong performance “ignore the fact that Russia’s inflation demons are rearing their ugly heads and showing every sign of getting worse.” Oligarchs Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov, previously joint owners of...
A new report from the Financial Times on the potential Gazprom natural gas deal in Nigeria reveals that the company aims to control the country’s LNG export market to Europe and the United States, but Russia still hasn’t provided any d...
Vladimir Putin is certainly not the first Russian to nab the cover of Time Magazine. In addition to Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Sakharov, Brezhnev and many others, if we go all the way back to Dec. 16, 1935, the cover was graced by the legendary Alexei St...
It was a fantasy come true for the Kremlin apologists. Distracted for just a moment from their diligent yet nutty work debunking the supposedly anti-Putin agenda/conspiracy in the international press (how these people reconcile that position with ...
A few days ago Charles Krauthammer had a column discussing the rather imperfect democratic legacy of the recently assassinated Pakistani opposition figure Benazir Bhutto. The core question, the columnist argues, is whether or not democratic forms ...
Last summer when Vladimir Putin boldly declared his interest in building a new global economic “architecture,” eschewing the influence of institutions such as the World Bank and Bretton Woods system, few in the West could predict how exactly Russi...
Just this evening the FT has broken a story of considerable importance: According to an unnamed, high ranking official in Nigeria’s energy sector, Gazprom has made an aggressive offer to make major investments in the African nation’s e...
Special thanks to Fora.tv for this short clip of Estonian PM Ansip addressing the Hoover Institution about the impressive growth of the Estonian economy.
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