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Investigative journalist Michael Isikoff said Friday that he was surprised to find out that an article he wrote about Carter Page prior to the election was used to obtain a spy warrant against the former Trump campaign adviser.The revelation, which was made in a memo released by the House Intelligence Committee on Friday, “stuns me,” Isikoff said in an episode of his podcast, “Skullduggery.”The four-page memo alleges that the DOJ and FBI submitted inaccurate and incomplete information in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against Page. The spy warrant was granted on Oct. 21, 2016.One “essential” part of the...

Cold hand of KGB haunts oil-rich wasteland By Adrian Blomfield in Nefteyugansk (Filed: 22/06/2006) Even by the desolate standards of Siberia, Nefteyugansk is a forbidding place. Last winter temperatures sank as low as minus 58 Celsius. Summer brings with it a sapping humidity, melting the ice and turning the area into a vast, mosquito-infested swamp. No one in his right mind would want to live in Nefteyugansk. Indeed, until the 1970s, no one apart from the local Khanti people did. Yukos is now owned by Rosneft Yet this stretch of Siberian marsh is now perhaps Russia's most valuable piece of...

A large chunk of the cash state-owned Rosneft paid for its acquisition of Yukos' main production unit, Yuganskneftegaz, may have been initially transferred from the Federal Treasury, Vedomosti reported Friday, citing a series of transactions shown on a database that purports to be from the Central Bank. If the contents of the database are true, the data may indicate what many market watchers have believed for some time: that Rosneft did not immediately pay for Yugansk, but instead first borrowed money from the government in what looks like an insider deal. If true, the disclosures appear to show that even...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The emerging markets event of the year -- the opening up of share trading in the world's largest gas producer Gazprom -- is likely to be only partial and may be some time off yet, fund managers and analysts warned on Friday. Gazprom (GAZPq.L: Quote, Profile, Research) this week said existing curbs on foreign buying of its stock will go by the end of the year after the state gets a controlling stake via a cash buyback of Gazprom treasury stock. The latest plan, which sparked a jump in the share price, replaced an ill-starred attempt to...

Original title:PLUG THE FOUNTAIN!THE MARKET ECONOMY IN RUSSIA IS NO MORE Dresdner Bank sends Yukos documents to Novaya Gazeta                     The 'Yukos affair' has reached its culmination. The government's attempt to cover up the opinions of western businessmen during their de facto nationalization of the company has resulted in an international scandal.        The result is that Russia has lost her business standing, including her ability to attract investment. She has demonstrated to the entire world that the laws of the marketplace do not take precendence to the political and personal interests of those who consider themselves the government.        The...