Analysts are saying that we can expect a flurry of major deal making from Russian companies as the Putin era comes to a “close.” Stefan Wagstyl at the FT writes about the acquisition plans of Gazprom, Oleg Deripaska’s Basic Eleme...
Lou Dobbs at CNN takes a break from scaring people over harmless Mexican immigrants to talk about U.S.-Russia missile politics. It sure is getting harder and harder for Putin to claim that it is the Americans who don’t want to work together ...
Steve Levine has written an excellent book about the race to exploit the Caspian’s energy IF THE history of the oil industry’s role as a force for democracy and civilisation around the world is your thing, don’t read this book.* There is lot...
Pedestrians walk past as activist of the United Russia party distributing promotional papers with a portrait of President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) The Union of Right Forces (SPS)...
Yulia Latynina writes in the Moscow Times: The most serious economic consequence of Putin’s presidency is that many of his friends have acquired tremendous wealth over the past seven years. If, for example, oil pumped by Yuganskneftegaz was ...
[Also see Part I, Part II, and Part III of this series] Part IV: Special Operation «Olympiad» By Grigory Pasko, journalist Fools and roads, again An obligatory feature of every Russian city is – fools and roads. There just seems to be no way to av...
For his latest column, Gideon Rachman of the FT talked with Mikhail Kasyanov about why the Russian government is cracking down with such exceptional brutality before an election they seem guaranteed to win. Yesterday Bob commented on a couple of t...
After successful and award-winning stagings in London and New York, Sir Tom Stoppard’s epically sprawling nine-hour triology “The Coast of Utopia” has finally opened in Moscow, where the writer was surprised by the reactions of R...
Today the New York Times writes about fashion designer Denis Simachev, whose main gimmick is the incorporation of Soviet era symbols, cues and kitsch into apparel items that can cost upwards of $2,000. There are some priceless quotes in the story,...
There’s a very interesting piece by Paul Betts in the FT today about Kazakhstan’s skillfully shrewd strategies as a regional energy player: Given the experiences in Russia, the Kazakhs have woken up to the opportunities for renegotiati...
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