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On 11 July, the German press announced that Gazprom had invited the German company RWE, a strategic shareholder of the EU project Nabucco, to join the South Stream project. The proposal was probably aimed at discrediting Nabucco…
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The board of the foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation was appointed on 8 July. The Bundestag approved its composition by the votes of the Christian Democrats and Liberals. For the government coalition politicians this means success…
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| Ewa Paszyc
Gazprom’s Annual General Meeting on 25 June saw no changes in the makeup of the company’s management. Despite the worst production and financial results in recent years, Gazprom did not announce any serious revision of its policies.…
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| Iwona Wiśniewska
The nature of the CU and the manner of its introduction show that for Russia, the move is above all of political significance, and serves to strength Moscow’s influence in the region.
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On 2 July, the Russian company Gazprom and the Belarusian gas company Bieltransgaz agreed to raise the transit fee for the transmission of Russian gas across Belarusian territory, and to raise the wholesale price of gas for customers in…
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At the beginning of July, the Ukrainian government and experts from the International Monetary Fund agreed the terms of a new stand-by loan. The IMF’s Board of Directors will take the final decision at the end of July. The renewal of co-…
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The arrests by the FBI on 26-28 June of 10 persons suspected of working for the Russian Federation’s intelligence services, and the confirmation of that fact immediately after the end of President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit to the USA, has…
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| Marta Zawilska-Florczuk
Due to competition among particular coalition parties and no consent on the cabinet’s priorities, cooperation between the Christian Democrats and the liberals until the end of their term will be limited to the most urgent projects. However…
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| Jakub Groszkowski
The centre-right coalition has a majority of 118 votes in the 200-person Chamber of Deputies and may count on the favour of President Vaclav Klaus. However, the government’s stability is going to be weakened by the ambitions of the leaders…
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On 1 July Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov announced that he would make known to the general prosecutor’s office the content of the gas contract signed in December 2006 between Bulgargaz and the Russian Gazprom. This decision, while…