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Asmall city in a remote part of Russia is the starting point for a pipeline that will bring natural gas to German consumers. Gryazovets depends on Gazprom to survive, but for some workers it's a desperate life.

The European Union is seeking an agreement on a natural-gas pipeline between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan as the 27-nation bloc aims to import Caspian fuel and reduce its dependence on Russia.

Russia gained enormous foreign-politics experience across the world in the imperial epoch and in the Soviet era. Assessing the Russian-US relations over the past year from the standpoint of this experience, one readily concludes that the highlight for the period of time has been Washington's generous offer to press the reset button. No doubt, there are profound reasons why the US wants its ...

Imagine if the Empire State Building were to be placed smack in the middle of Venice or Jerusalem. Jutting out from the ancient streets, a skyscraper of that size would seem absurdly out of sync with the iconic beauty of the cities. Developers would likely never get such a proposal approved. But in Russia the rules are different.The governor of Russia’s “northern capital,” St Petersburg, signed a decree Tuesday allowing the construction of a hulking skyscraper for state energy giant Gazprom in t

The emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, or BRIC bloc of countries, represent 40 percent of the world’s population and together, a growing economic force. Throughout the next six weeks, Chris Devonshire-Ellis will travel to the four BRIC nations to observe the impact these nations are having on one another, and the impact they are having on the world. In this first article he focuses on the biggest economy of the four, China. By Chris Devonshire-Ellis BEIJING, Sept. 30 –