Russians revive Polish vodka company
Alcohol is a powerful temptation – as William Carey, the CEO of Central European Distribution Company (CEDC), a leading Polish and Russian vodka producer, has found out.
Carey, a former US golf pro who stormed onto Poland’s antiquated alcohol market in the early 1990s, swiftly became one of the country’s largest alcohol producers and distributors. Continue reading
Polish Lawmaker On Obama’s Remarks To Medvedev: ‘This Is Not Surprising Or New’
GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney said this week that President Obama’s comment to Russian president Dimitry Medvedev that he would be more “flexible” on issues such as missile defense until after the election was “a cave to Russia.” Romneywent on to attack the President’s plan in 2009 to scrap and replace President Bush’s European missile defense program. “The decision to withdrawal our missile defense sites from Poland put us in greater jeopardy in my view,” he said. Continue reading
Putin Showed His Weakness With Poland
The citizens’ awakening in Russia dates from the disputed State Duma elections on Dec. 4 and the first protest held on the following day on Chistiye Prudy. But to my mind, the first sign thatVladimir Putin‘s regime is tottering emerged 20 months earlier, on the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. The ceremony commemorating the 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals murdered by Stalin’s security forces and the 2010 plane crash that killed the Polish president and a number of government and military officials marked a rapprochement between Moscow and Warsaw. Continue reading
Poland Admits Difficulties in Relationship With Russia
Poland’s relations with Russia are worse now than before the 2010 plane crash that killed Poland’s former president and chilled relations between the two countries, Poland’s prime minister said Tuesday. Continue reading
Poland’s shale gas play takes on Russian power
When Wieslaw Radzieciak took office as the mayor of Lesniowice in the gently-rolling farmland of southeastern Poland 26 years ago, the Soviet garrisons that dotted the county were a stark reminder of which superpower was in control. Continue reading
Exxon’s Polish Fracking Plans Hit Air Pocket
Exxon Mobil announced that the gas flow from its two exploratory wells drilled in Poland did not justify bringing them into production. [1] Continue reading
Gazprom gas deliveries to Poland down 7 pct -PGNiG
Polish gas monopoly PGNiG said on Thursday it is receiving 7 percent less gas a day from Gazprom amid reports the Russian firm is cutting deliveries as freezing weather bolsters demand for heating across Europe. Continue reading
Polish gas: buy high, sell low
Siberian temperatures that have gripped Poland over the last week has sent natural gas usage soaring as consumers and businesses crank up heating system to keep warm – but the spike in consumption is not causing much joy at the country’s main gas provider. Continue reading
Exxon’s Shale Failures in Poland May Lengthen Gazprom’s Shadow
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)’s failed shale-gas wells in Poland may hobble the nation’s effort to become one of the world’s major energy sources and dismantle Russian dominance of Eastern European gas markets. Continue reading
Stalin’s Grandson Sues Duma over Katyn Resolution
Accusations that Joseph Stalin ordered thousands of captured Polish officers executed without trial at Katyn in 1940 are a violation of the Russian Constitution and an illegal slander against the Soviet leader, a lawyer for Stalin’s grandson Yevgeny Dzhugashvili said on Tuesday. Continue reading
