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Russia Mining Company Threatens Suit Over News Leak

MOSCOW A major Russian mining company has threatened to sue the country’s leading business newspaper for publishing leaked information before an initial public offering. The company, Rusal, asserted that the dispute was about securities law, while the ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Oleg Deripaska,  Wall Street Journal

Electricity for Americans From Russia’s Old Nuclear Weapons

A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. For about 10 percent of electricity in the United States, it’s fuel from dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones. “It’s a great, easy source” of fuel, said Marina V. Alekseyenkova, an ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, International Herald Tribune,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Pacific Gas & Electric,  Constellation Energy,  Tennessee Valley Authority

Russia Mulls Raising $17.8 Billion in Bond Offering

MOSCOW — The Russian finance minister met bankers in London on Thursday to discuss a possible new government bond issue, the strongest sign yet that Russia plans to resume foreign borrowing for the first time since its 1998 default. Any bond issue ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, International Herald Tribune,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bloomberg News,  United States Department of the Treasury,  Deutsche Bank,  Vladimir Putin

Russian Oil Surges After Break With OPEC

MOSCOW Improbably, Russia’s oil sector has emerged as one of this country’s few growth industries. While the 12 nations of OPEC have limped through the last year, painfully cutting production as the global economy slumped, Russian oil companies have ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: OPEC,  Rosneft,  BP p.l.c.,  Peter O'Brien,  Vladimir Putin

Oligarchs Get an Earful From Russian President

MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Wednesday used a now-traditional annual meeting with Russian oligarchs to scold them for their corporate missteps and for corruption, while also demanding that they take a more patriotic approach to conducting ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Oleg Deripaska,  Dmitry Medvedev,  Mikhail Prokhorov,  World Trade Organization,  New Jersey Nets

Moscow Journal: Lifting the Lid on Russia’s Art of Lavish Gift Giving

MOSCOW Until recently, Aleksandr Y. Khochinsky occupied a special niche in this capital, known as much for its corruption as for its wealth. He was an antiquarian who specialized in providing high-class grease for the best-connected palms in the ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Vladimir Putin,  Rolex,  Nikolai Gogol,  Viktor Vekselberg

Eastern Europe Fears New Gas Pipeline Would Help Russia Further Divide Continent

MOSCOW With an ambitious new pipeline planned to run along the bed of the Baltic Sea, the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom is only a permit or two away from redrawing the energy map of Europe. This article is part of a series examining Europes ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Commission,  European Union,  European Parliament,  Zbigniew Brzezinski,  Barack Obama

Putin Sounds More Welcoming Tone to Foreign Investors

MOSCOW — Russia's prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, whose government took control of several oil companies when he served as president, gave a speech Tuesday saying the state must now step back from the economy and let private enterprise take the lead ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Gazprom,  Goldman Sachs

Siemens Fills Need for High-Speed Trains in Russia

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia In the last years of the cold war, the ultrasecret research institute that had designed the Soviet Union’s nuclear submarines received an unusual request: could it build a high-speed train? The Soviet Union, despite its ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Hitachi, Ltd.

Russia Invites Outsiders to Gas Fields

MOSCOW Just a few years after compelling foreign oil companies to renegotiate their contracts in Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin has invited executives from some of the largest such companies to discuss new work on Siberian natural gas fields. ...

From ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Gazprom,  ExxonMobil

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