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GAZPROM PICKS OFF ONE LARGE GERMAN MORSEL, POISED FOR ANOTHER
With Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel looking on, the chairmen of Gazprom and BASF, Alexei Miller and Juergen Hambrecht, signed an agreement on joint ventures in Siberian gas field development and gas marketing in Germany and Europe on April 27. The... MORE
RUSSIAN-GERMAN SUMMIT IN TOMSK: SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP ON DISPLAY
The Russian-German energy and political summit held April 26-28 in Tomsk indicated that Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat-Social Democrat government is reverting to the Russia policy line established by her predecessor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrat-Green government. Eight cabinet ministers and a massive group of business... MORE
RACIST MURDERS DEAL FURTHER BLOW TO RUSSIA’S STANDING IN ARMENIA
The latest upsurge in murders of dark-skinned immigrants living in Russia has not only reinforced the country's image as a hotbed of xenophobic extremism, it also has negative implications for the future of its relations with one of its most loyal allies. The April 22... MORE
KAZAKH-UZBEK BORDER INCIDENT SIGNALS TENSION
An April 19 incident involving Uzbek border guards and a Kazakh national revealed the ongoing cross-border tensions and geopolitical rivalry between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Reports in the media of both countries tended to overemphasize the significance of the incident, which has been taken up at... MORE
NOT QUITE 100 YEARS OF CURTAILED RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARISM
Last week both chambers of the Russian parliament gathered for a special session in St. Petersburg to mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first State Duma. Tsar Nicholas II had ordered the creation of an arena for political dialogue in a country... MORE
RUSSIAN OIL TO FLOW TO CHINA EVEN BEFORE PIPELINE COMPLETED
In an apparent bid to secure a toehold on the lucrative Chinese market, Russian oil majors have moved to supply crude oil to China through Kazakhstan, rather than waiting for completion of Russia's own Pacific oil pipeline. Russia's state-owned oil pipeline monopoly Transneft indicated on... MORE
AZERBAIJAN ON THE WEST’S NEW FRONTIER OF ENERGY SECURITY (Part 1)
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's April 24-28 visit to Washington spotlighted the urgency of opening direct Western access to eastern Caspian oil and gas reserves. U.S. policy seems, however tentatively, to move in that direction; the European Union is only beginning to consider the issue; and... MORE
KREMLIN TRIES TO CONVINCE WARY WEST THAT STRONG GAZPROM IS GOOD FOR IT
Several seemingly disparate events that occurred this week -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's talks in Greece and Turkey, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Siberian city of Tomsk, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Washington, and the discussions... MORE
A MURKY MEETING IN MOSCOW ON MOLDOVA
The United States and European Union are maintaining full secrecy over the April 19 Moscow meeting on Moldova. The Russian and Ukrainian Ministries of Foreign Affairs, the EU's Special Representative on Moldova, the U.S. State Department, and the OSCE's American-led Moldova Mission participated in the... MORE
PUTIN PLEASES ENVIRONMENTALISTS BY RE-ROUTING PACIFIC PIPELINE
As Russia prepares to start construction of a major oil pipeline from East Siberia to the Pacific tomorrow, April 28, the Kremlin offered a generous gesture towards environmentalists unhappy with the pipeline's route. The pipeline is considered to be a major channel for implementing Moscow's... MORE