Archive March 2009

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  • Renowned Russian Rights Leader in Serious Condition After Attack

    31 Mar 2009 | The Other Russia

    Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomarev is recovering from an attack outside his Moscow home - following a meeting with with Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a representative from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

  • Sechin Warns on Low Oil Prices

    31 Mar 2009 | The Wall Street Journal

    Igor Sechin, Russia’s energy minister and reported author of the Kremlin’s assault on YUKOS, is profiled by The Wall Street Journal.

  • Kremlin Energy Comes to Hungary

    31 Mar 2009 | Business News Europe

    Surgutneftegas is to buy a stake in Hungarian oil and gas company Mol, in a move which is raising alarm bells about Russia's ambitions to expand into the downstream of Europe's energy sector and the fate of the EU's Nabucco gas pipeline.

  • Dealing with Kremlin Kleptocracy

    30 Mar 2009 | The Moscow Times

    Alexei Bayer, a New York-based economist, comments that there will be no new beginning in US-Russia relations.

  • Medvedev, Obama to Discuss START

    30 Mar 2009 | Reuters

    The United States and Russia will commit to new talks on reducing their nuclear arsenals when Barack Obama meets President Dmitry Medvedev for the first time.