The steadily improving relations between Russia and China reached a new high earlier this year when the two countries signed 29 bilateral agreements on energy, telecommunications, IT, banking and money […]
Read MoreKazakhstan has a long common border with China to the east and has been exporting Caspian oil to China’s north-western province Xinjiang by rail since the 1990s. In 2005, Kazakhstan […]
Read MoreMost outside observers have agreed that from its very formation Gazprom, the giant monopoly producer and distributor born out of the Soviet Gas Ministry in the early 1990s and owner […]
Read MoreThe search is clearly on for ways to buttress and increase growth in Russia’s economy. If GDP is to grow in accordance with targets set by President Vladimir Putin, doubling […]
Read MoreIan Pryde was sole author of the 200-page report: Russia 1998: Annual Report on Government, Economy, the Business Environment, Capital Markets and Industry, with Forecasts through end-2000. Russia 1998 contains […]
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