More than 100 dead in Russia nightclub fire, even Putin showed up

Last week I wrote that it would be wise if the Russian Prime Minister visited the site of derailment of the Nevsky Express passenger train on its way from Moscow to St. Petersburg. That crash, which investigators...

Ill-omened Russian passenger train may not survive next time

NowPublic already reported today that several carriages came off the tracks as an express passenger train was en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg in Russia.The President of the Russian Federation Dmitry...

Russia's Oil Czar does not want to join OPEC

Headquartered in Moscow, Lukoil is Russia's largest oil company and world’s second largest public company (next to ExxonMobil) in terms of proven oil and gas reserves. Recently on a visit to Moscow with my...

Russia did not need Mossad to stop its arms shipment to Iran

While the eight Russian-origin hijackers of the cargo ship the Arctic Sea originally claimed to be environmentalists when they boarded the vessel in the Baltic Sea in Swedish waters on July 24, it is not...

Lukashenko of Belarus or his look-alike?

The question is not whether the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has been making a choice between Moscow and the West. The issue is primarily about dairy products.  The ban on import of almost all...

How to sell Russia's enclave to Baltic neighbours?

Lately the Russian energy management officials have been more often expressing their opinion that the 2,400 MW Baltic Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project scheduled to be implemented in Russia’s Kaliningrad area could become a regional one. The recent press publications also...

Nord Stream between hopeless thing and open question

The likelihood of construction of the controversial $12 billion Nord Stream dual 1,220 km gas pipeline from Russia to the Gulf of Finland and across the Baltic Sea to Germany has apparently moved away due to current economic situation. According to information received from...

Is Kremlin craving for seating its vicegerent in Latvia?

The Russian-language newspaper Chas, issued in the Latvian capital city of Riga, has been instigating a version of desire of a Russian banker to become the next Prime Minister of Latvia. Media outlets in Russia...

Temptation of ‘Europe’s Last Dictator’

  Latvian Prime Minister’s trip to Belarus these days coincided with the visit to Minsk by the European Union’s (EU) High Representative Javier Solana. If only Ivars Godmanis of Latvia was a bit rounder the Baltic neighbour of Belarus could proudly swagger as a EU...

President of Tajikistan offers opportunities to Latvia

Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan, arrived today on a state visit to the Baltic country of Latvia. At the Latvian-Tajikistan Business Forum the same day, Latvian President Valdis Zatlers and the President of...
 

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