Putin Woos Former Republics as Russia Competes With BRIC Peers
Russia is exploiting U.S. and European inattention to reassert its influence in the former Soviet republics, spending more than $50 billion to turn the “near abroad” into an engine of economic and political power.
Investing in Energy After Yukos
The Kremlin rarely approaches EU-Russia summits with much enthusiasm, but there are signs that this may change in anticipation of the next summit in Rostov-on-Don on May 31.
Russia's WTO bid tests US relationship
Russia's on-again, off-again plan to pursue World Trade Organization (WTO) membership bid jointly with Kazakhstan and Belarus (first announced in June 2009) remains up in the air.
S&P Raises Ukraine's Credit Ratings to 'Stable'
Ukraine’s credit ratings were raised at Standard & Poor’s on improvements in the country’s policy coordination and after a Russian gas subsidy agreement helped boost the government’s debt outlook.
Business Sense: Now is great time to invest in energy efficiency projects for long-term gains
Investments that yield energy savings will reward the banks who provide crediting
The Next Round of the Great Game
The game’s initial phase ran fr om 1807, when Napoleon proposed to Tsar Alexander to invade British India, until 1907, when tsarist Russia and imperial Britain sat down and — like civilized Europeans — divided spheres of interest, some of which ran right through countries like Iran.
Russia and US march in post-Soviet step
Victory Day in World War II. Arguably, it is not a parade of NATO troops but rather of Russia's erstwhile allies in the coalition against Adolf Hitler. Nor are parades necessarily the stuff of real politics or the harbingers of military alliances. Yet,
Putin Proposes Merging Russian, Ukrainian State Gas Firms
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed merging Gazprom, the world's largest gas firm, with Ukraine's state gas company, Naftogaz.
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