A global recession has changed, among other international dynamics, a greater willingness for the Ukraine to cooperate with a former mother-nation that recently sought to fine them $2 billion dollars in what can be described as a reprimanding for favoring EU cooperation, and a mere few years ago shut off gas to nearby Belarus, threatening [...]

Ross Hendin, CFP Contributor and Principal of Hendin Consultants, provides below another chapter to the Ignalina nuclear power plant case study. Here, Ross discusses a major foreign policy concern with regard to energy security in both Lithuania and Belarus- the threat of Russia:
The Jamestown Foundation today published an article by David Marples, detailing the political and [...]

Ross Hendin, CFP contributer and Principal of Hendin Consultants, has provided below a new chapter to the case of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, involving where and how Russia can be Russia and step in:
ITAR-TASS is reporting that the Russian State-owned nuclear power company, Rosatom, will build a new nuclear reactor in the Baltics to [...]

An interesting report was featured in Reuters and more recently on Gamebids.com, on the 2014 Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia, costing 15 percent less than originally anticipated as initial budget estimates exaggerated the projected cost.
In a Reuters interview on Tuesday, March 11, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said the state will fund [...]

Toyota plans to begin assembly of a new budget model at its St. Petersburg plant. Accounts of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) and of a number of Russia’s companies have been frozen in France under the Swiss Noga lawsuit - Russia’s debt to the firm reportedly amounts to $110 million. A legal representative [...]