Azerbaijan’s state oil company is set to auction off 605,000 barrels of Russian oil that will be delivered to Russia’s Novorossiysk port. World Energy The Indian government “must allow prices to be market driven” says oil retailer Indian Oil Corp ...
[This special guest columnist is a long-time colleague of mine writing under the pen name Dee Prince. He is a Nigerian-born international petroleum consultant who works out of offices in Beijing, Lagos, Toronto and London. He is an Associate Profe...
Giles Whittell at the Times says “Dmitri Medvedev is no stooge, as everyone seems to think.” Is that really what everyone thinks? Not from what I have been reading. I’ve always had the impression that Medvedev has a very positive...
From Lionel Beehner, a journalist formerly with the Council on Foreign Relations, in the Huffington Post: Why do we suddenly care so much about Russia? Its economy is still smaller than Portugal’s, its nuclear stockpile is no match for our o...
Dmitri Medvedev “looks like someone who might sell you a flat-screen TV in John Lewis” according to one UK reporter, who nonetheless predicts that Medvedev’s presidency will herald “a new Russia”. The Swedish Foreign Minister says that Russia cann...
The chairman of the Russia-Vietnam Business Council says that Russian private firms have begun looking at investment opportunities in Vietnam. Russia’s investment banks are launching online brokerages to encourage investment. “Although Russi...
Gazprom has offered to purchase state-owned Petroleum Industry of Serbia, having reportedly offered the Serb government €400 million for a 51% stake. Russia is reportedly looking to cooperate with Uruguay on nuclear energy. Gazprom has announced t...
A valuable article by Ray Takeyh and Nikolas Gvosdev is running in today’s IHT, which examines Russia’s motives in the Iran nuclear question: The incongruity of providing sensitive nuclear resources to a country that is actively sancti...
From Tom Keane in the Boston Globe: TIME MAGAZINE named Vladimir Putin its “Person of the Year.” Time Inc. officials said they were surprised at the choice, since the Russian president hadn’t been nominated for the honor and no c...
Serbia is deeply divided by Gazprom’s $590 million bid to take over the state petroleum monopoly NIS, a deal which is strongly leveraged upon a connection to the planned South Stream pipeline. The improving profitability of Russia’s do...
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