The European Commission approved the plan to regulate the energy market of the European Union on Wednesday. The plan stipulates restrictions to foreign companies to purchase energy assets in Europe. To put it in a nutshell, the Commission banned Russia’s giant Gazprom, which already owns a package of euro assets, from conducting future investment activities in Europe. European officials described the new measures as the protection of competition, whereas investors, market members and the general public refer to them as protectionism and a wish to endorse their rules of the game outside the EU

20.09.2007
The situation looks rather strange: Russia has been writing off millions in debt owed by third-world countries. In the meantime, nobody wants to consider the possibility of canceling Russia’s foreign debt. Russia has been paying off hundred of billions in foreign debt which also includes funds owed by all other republics of the former Soviet Union.

17.09.2007
It appears that the testing of new weapons “which have no match in the world” is becoming a tradition in Russia. The recent example is what the Russian military describes as the world’s most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb, which was successfully tested on September 11, 2007. The new bomb should supersede Russia’s arsenal of small-yield nuclear weapons

13.09.2007
Western counterintelligence agencies attempted to re-recruit Soviet agents; several traitors defected to the West, and some Soviet diplomats committed adultery in “the ways that defy imagination,” according to Viktor Budanov, a former chief of the KGB’s Directorate K. The Directorate K, one of several sub-directorates within the First Chief Directorate (external intelligence) of the KGB, was disbanded following the August 1991 events. The Soviet-era defector Oleg Gordievsky described Budanov as the KGB’s grimmest and most dangerous person