We’ve been working hard here at the blog to always bring our readers new and interesting material on Russian and European business and politics, including a foray into a multi-platform format with diverse video and audio offering. Perhaps so...
Libya continues to attract investment to its upstream sector despite tougher terms By Tom Nicholls The pace of upstream licensing in Libya is picking up: this month, Tripoli has agreed new deals with US companies Exxon Mobil and Occidental Petrole...
Below is a trailer for the somewhat dated TV documentary “The Putin System,” including interviews with former spy Oleg Gordievsky, Edmond Pope, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, among others.
[Also see Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV of this series] Part V: Special Operation «Olympiad» By Grigory Pasko, journalist The Olympic state corporation Just one week after Sochi was announced the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympiad, price...
Reuters compiles all of slogans from parties running in Sunday’s parliamentary (s)elections. My favorite is from the Communists, who wish to remind you of their existence (which is strange being that they are the #2 party). UNITED RUSSIA Lea...
Robert Amsterdam is quoted in today’s Globe and Mail article on Gazprom and Petro-Canada: However, critics of Mr. Putin’s regime argue that Western companies such as Petrocan are essentially doing deals with the devil by lobbying their...
Interesting piece over at the Times takes a look at the United Russia TV campaign ads, which in many ways sound like a dialogue from a psychologist’s chaise lounge: “Today we are successful in politics, economics, arts, sciences, sports,” sa...
A shop assistant adjusts the volume during a nationwide TV address delivered by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a shop in Moscow on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. Putin on Thursday strongly urged Russians to cast ballots for the main pro-Kremlin par...
The Russian government’s theft of Yukos was in many ways a dress rehearsal. An experiment with a new methodology of using regulatory and tax pressure,faking the legal cover, spreading the spoils of the take to enough international partners s...
Gazprom executives are wont to frequently threaten Europe, especially in response to anti-trust and competition issues, saying “hey, if you guys don’t like buying gas under our terms (or letting us own distribution assets), maybe we...
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