On Monday afternoon, the editor of this blog posted an excerpt of an article authored by one Dr. Gary Busch, entitled “The Misperception of the Russian-Ukrainian Gas Problem.”  We have since been notified by John Evans of European Tribune that the article may in fact be a collection of cut-and-paste instances of plagiarism without attribution.  I have reviewed the article, and found it significantly lacking in many respects, as well as factually incorrect in many instances.  I regret that this blog has presented material of such inferior quality, and I hope readers will take a moment to consider Mr. Evan’s comment outlining the original sources. If Dr. Busch would like to retort, I’d be happy to post any comments.

Dear Mr Amsterdam,

I think you should be aware that the “editorial” by Dr Gary K Busch that you quote here contains unattributed material copy-pasted from other sources.