Russia Signs $3.5 Billion Energy Deals with China

" Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, together with a Russian business delegation, has sealed over 3.5 billion dollars in deals with China on energy, infrastructure and space exploration. " A future pipeline...

Saint Petersburg Heritage Status Threatened By Gazprom Skyscraper

Russian gas corporation Gazprom is planning to build a 1,322 foot (403m) high skyscraper in the middle of Saint Petersburg's historical district. The glass structure was approved in a government meeting on...

Russia cuts off gas supplies to Europe

Russia has cut off all gas supplies to Europe because of a dispute with its neighbour, Ukraine. Tens of thousands of people have been left without heat in some parts of central Europe as governments tried to find...

Russian Gas Supply Via Ukraine Drops; Balkans Halted

Russia has made good on its threats to reroute gas supplies around Ukraine after it accused the country of siphoning off gas. Deliveries to the Blakans have now been halted at the Romanian border as the energy...

Ukraine accused of stealing gas

A Russian gas firm who switched off the supply of gas to Ukraine for unpaid bills has accused them of stealing gas meant for other European countries. On 1st January Gazprom switched off the supply due to unpaid...

Russia's Gazprom cuts all gas supplies to Ukraine

These two countries are havingmany disputes.  This one may be over natural gas but there aredeeper underlying disputesbetween these neighbors. "Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom cut all natural gas supplies to...

A Gas OPEC in the making?: The Russian initiative, the Iranian approval (upda...

Russia has called upon Iran and Qatar for a meeting on November 18 in Moscow. They would discuss the creation of a OPEC like organization on natural gas. This big gas troika would have been already...

Venezuela increase foreign participation in gas project

In a move to confirm the readiness of foreign companies to invest in Venezuela, representatives of Chevron, Gazprom and Eni signed into gas pojects. Oil executives from Qatar, Algeria, Portugal and Japan were also...

Russian Gazpron to replace French Total in Iranian oil business

As the oil prices continue to soar and Midle East tension focus on Iran and Israel, French Total announced it departure from the Iranian oil business as it was too risky. Immediately, Russian Gazprom showed its willingness to fill in. " Gazprom eager to replace Total in Iran...

$250 oil forecast by Gazprom gains credibility « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

"I have to conclude that blaming higher oil prices on speculators and the Fed’s lose money is a part of the explanation for higher oil prices, but perhaps not quite the whole story. The latest statistics from BP tell a story of supply and demand that no government can...

Gazprom poised to be world’s biggest company: CEO

Russia does not hesitate to use it's enegy resources to get back the World power. While Europe runs down it's nuclear plans, Russia is builds more. I think that their strategic aim is to be a dominating energy producer now and in the future. "Miller predicted that oil prices...

Weekly Radio Spin -- Coaching Students to Protect Corporations

This week, we look at Putin pushers, Coach in the classroom and how comic books promote Iraqi special forces. In "Six Degrees of Spin and Fakin'," we look at the Lincoln Group, spreading their spin beyond Iraq.

Deadline looms in Ukraine gas row

"Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is in Moscow to try to persuade Russia not to cut gas supplies to his country in a dispute over an unpaid bill. He has just a few hours with President Vladimir Putin to settle the row over a demand by Russian gas monopoly Gazprom for...

In Russia, A Secretive Force Widens

All three men had something important in common beyond the timing of their promotions: backgrounds as KGB officers and experience working directly with President Vladimir Putin when he was a KGB operative himself...

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