Ron Liddle at the Times registers his concern over Russia’s Arctic claim in regards to the country’s dismal environmental record: There’s another little nugget of information to wonder at with Russia: despite, or perhaps because of, po...
Below is an excerpt from the testimony of Zenyo Baran, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Eurasian Policy, Hudson Institute, made before United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs “Central and Eastern Europe: Ass...
The attached letter to the editor by Robert Amsterdam was published in today’s Financial Times: LSE should encourage the rule of law in Russia By Robert Amsterdam From Mr Robert R. Amsterdam. Sir, The thinly veiled seizure of RussNeft assets...
Earlier this year a Time Magazine reporter coined the phrase “Gazprom always wins” – a mantra which is proving to be no different this week as the Russians dragged Belarus toward the brink of yet another natural gas supply cut of...
Thanks to a variety of rather unpopular policies of the current U.S. government (not to mention the Iraq war, Guantanamo, and Abu Graib), anti-Americanism has become a hot political commodity abroad, and a useful invective for any politician to se...
An area twice the size of France, loaded with an estimated quarter of the world’s oil and gas deposits (which are becoming increasingly feasible to access as global warming causes the ice caps to melt) as well as other minerals such as gold ...
As we reported on the blog yesterday, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is in the middle of a considerably unpleasant energy dispute with Vladimir Putin and Gazprom. Some observers argued that Lukashenko would either have to 1) seek help from Europe...
A German Approach and a Russian Slogan By Grigory Pasko, journalist When I first met with Energiewerke Nord GmbH (EWN) director Dieter Rittscher in June of this year, he reported that his company is taking part in the process of the dismantling of...
On July 24, 2007, the Helsinki Commission of the United States Congress held a hearing entitled “Energy and Democracy: Oil and Water?” which featured witness testimony from experts on energy security. Although I was not able to attend ...
Russia to Belarus: No gas for you! [Dear readers, my apologies for the quiet day – it’s summer and I’m taking some time with my family, so please bear with me. – Bob Amsterdam] For as much complaining as Russia does about t...
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