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| Iwona Wiśniewska
The Russian model of cooperation between itself and the EU – based on an exchange of investments and the transfer of technology from the EU, in exchange for Russian raw materials – has limited prospects of actually coming to fruition.
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At the end of November, Russia took action to block the supply of alternative oil deliveries to Belarus. On 25 November the Latvian-Russian company LatRosTrans, which owns the Ventspils-Navapolatsk pipeline, started emptying technological…
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On 30 November, President Dmitri Medvedev made his annual speech to the both chambers of parliament and representatives of the state administration. In comparison with last year’s address, which was based on the liberal manifesto ‘Forward…
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On 18 November at the international Forum of Constitutional Justice in St. Petersburg the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery Zorkin criticised several decisions made by the European Court of Human Rights…
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In Moscow on the night of 5-6 November, Oleg Kashin, a journalist for the influential daily Kommersant, who specialised in socio-political subjects, was severely beaten. This incident was condemned by President Dmitri Medvedev, and the…
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On 10 November, Mikhail Arustamov, the deputy head of Transneft, the Russian pipeline monopoly company, said in an interview for the monthly newspaper Truboprovodny Transport Nefti that Russia will stop transferring oil using the Odessa-…
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On 6 November, President Dmitri Medvedev vetoed as "unconstitutional" the amendments to the law on public assemblies adopted by Parliament, which impose restrictions on the organisers of demonstrations. The President’s veto, which was well…
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On 2 November the head of the Italian gas group Edison, Umberto Quadrino, reported that his company has filed a lawsuit at the Court of Arbitration in Stockholm against Promgas, a company belonging to Gazprom and Italy’s ENI. The suit…
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On November 16, one of the best-known Russian bloggers, the lawyer Alexei Navalny, published online documents about large-scale financial fraud during the construction of the Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean pipeline (ESPO). The documents he…
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Representatives of Russia’s Gazprom and the Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH) in the presence of the two countries’ prime ministers, Vladimir Putin and Boyko Borisov, signed agreements on 13 November in Sofia which will establish a company to…