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

28.08.2007
Western experts say that Russia’s strategic nuclear forces will have not more than 500 nukes in 10 or 15 years – silo-based or installed on Topol-M missile complexes, a dozen of Tu-160 bombers and a couple of nuclear submarines. In this case, as foreign experts see it, the United States will be able to destroy the low-power arsenal with only one preventive strike