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U.S.-Russia Ties Prove Difficult to Rebuild
As the United States and Russia look to improve their equivocal relationship, there is still great hesitation as to what the future may hold for the two powerhouses. The Moscow Times reports that both...
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Russian Military Budget Sapped by Corruption
A fifth of the military hardware budget in Russia is stolen by corrupt officials and contractors each year, bleeding the state budget, and undermining the combat readiness of the armed forces,...
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Like a good actor, Georgia can swiftly change appearance without even leaving the stage. On May 25th it presented its ugly face, as a few hundred stick-wielding protesters led by Nino Burjanadze, a...
View ArticleBusiness as Usual: Russia Raids BP’s Moscow Office
Russian court officers raided BP PLC’s Moscow office on Wednesday seeking documents in a court case related to the British oil giant’s failed Arctic deal with OAO Rosneft, raising the pressure on BP...
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China’s Cautious Friendship with Russia
Russian Prime Minister and soon-to-be-President-again Vladimir Putin may be booed as a villain during visits to some countries, but when his plane touches down in Beijing, they roll out the red carpet....
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Franz Sedelmayer: Leading the Fight Against Sovereign Immunity
In this exclusive interview, German businessman Franz J. Sedelmayer discusses his decades-long dispute with the Russian government, challenging Russia’s sovereign immunity, and the link between state...
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Declining Capex Puts and End to Resource Nationalist Bluffing
So far 2012 has been quite a year for resource nationalism, with Argentina seizing back control of YPF from its Spanish owners Repsol, TNK-BP’s never-ending troubles in Russia, and even the creeping...
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Russia Abroad: Rosneft Nears African Pipeline Deal
The Moscow Times and Steel Guru have reported that Rosneft is looking to build a $700 million oil-products pipeline from Mozambique to Zimbabwe in an unprecedented effort to expand its international...
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Rosneft Replaces Gazprom as Super-Champion
An intriguing analysis has recently been published in the Moscow Times by Associate Fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in London John Lough. Below, John writes at length...
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Russia’s Sticky Stagnation
The following is an English translation of an article by economist Oleg Biklemishev published in Novaya Gazeta which outlines some of the main economic challenges Russia is facing headed into 2013....
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