A remarkably entertaining letter to the editor of the FT recommends that the United States invade Canada before Russia or China gets the idea: “Conquering Canada would be easy – on any day, there are more tyres on cars in Manhattan tha...
I would say I’m shocked by this headline, but it seems almost anything can happen in Russia near an election: “Russian Police Detain Deputy Finance Minister.” It appears that Sergei Storchak, who oversees Russia’s massive s...
Following our earlier post on a Grani.ru political poster of Vladimir Putin congratulating Vladimir Putin as the next president, a frequent Russian reader sent in a number of other posters from the same contest (these have appeared online elsewher...
Eric Reguly of Canada’s Globe and Mail has a great blog post up about Gazprom, arguing that “A deal with Gazprom, in effect, is a deal with the Kremlin. There may be nothing wrong with that. But there is something wrong with allowing o...
From Charles Krauthammer’s article in today’s Washington Post: In Germany, Gerhard Schroeder is long gone, voted out of office and into a cozy retirement as Putin’s concubine at Gazprom.
Everybody has their eyes on the Belgian company Distrigas, which will soon become ripe for the picking as Suez will be forced to sell its majority stake as part of its merger requirements with the EC. Among the potential suitors (which is practica...
A Russian soldier takes a break during military training manoeuvers in Siberia, September 2007. The Russian senate has voted to abandon a key Cold War treaty limiting conventional military forces across Europe, a move strongly criticised in the We...
Very interesting news: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, citing a source close to the presidential administration, reported Thursday that Putin was planning to resign after the Duma elections and become a deputy, giving him the legal right to run in the March ...
This week the Wall Street Journal broke a pretty big story: Russia’s Minister of Telecommunications is alleged to illegally own a large chunk of the country’s telecom industry through offshore accounts in the British Virgin Islands. Th...
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