Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and his government just cannot seem to get a break lately. Not that they necessarily deserve it. But all the same, Turkmenistan’s last realistic hope to export a significant amount of additional natural gas to a customer has just evaporated. Line “D” of the Turkmenistan-China gas…
The show to be broadcast worldwide on the web starting in July will see 30 participants, 15 of them women, ditched on a large island in the Ob River, the seventh longest in the world, chasing a 100 million rouble ($1.7 million) prize on a nine month survival mission in…
Poland warned fellow European Union leaders on Thursday that their decision to reappoint former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk to chair their summits was a step toward disintegration of the 28-member bloc. Tusk, a centrist, won his second 30-month term as president of the European Council of EU leaders on…
Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has confirmed that it hired the consultancy of Tony Podesta, the elder brother of John Podesta who chaired Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, for lobbying its interests in the United States and proactively seeking the removal of various Obama-era sanctions, the press service of the Russian institution…
Russia’s Missile Violates ‘Spirit And Intent’ Of Arms Treaty, Says Top US General.
Khordorkovski Says Trump Could Help Push Putin From Power.
Lawmakers from Hungary’s governing Fidesz party will likely submit a new law regulating non-governmental organizations within two weeks, a party spokesman said Wednesday. The law that would require “agent organizations” seeking to influence Hungarian politics to reveal the sources of any foreign funding is widely viewed as targeting groups backed…
Last week, just days after the southern Caucasus nation of Georgia celebrated its newly awarded visa-free travel access to 30 EU countries, Russian news outlets began reporting a different story. Georgia’s visa liberalization wasn’t the result of Tblisi’s successful, long-planned reforms targeting European integration, Russian outlets said, but part…
Russia has exited recession, with a little help from the boys in uniform, a major statistical revision – and the global oil price. And not just any recession, but its longest in two decades. So what happened? To Read More Visit Bloomberg
The European Union has cleared Hungary to build two nuclear reactors with Russian help after Budapest made commitments to safeguard competition in the energy sector. The Hungarian deal for Russia to build the two additional reactors at the Paks nuclear plant, which had been agreed three years ago, had been…