Interesting article in the Times today about Sakhalin. It’s great to see Goldman Sachs coming around to the view that my colleagues and I have been expressing for the past two years. “The official rhetoric is getting steadily more shrill and...
Everywhere you look these days, the Russian state is showing off its false arrogance. From bullying foreign investors in Sakhalin, to interference in the energy trade, to the ever increasing hostilities toward Georgia and other former satellites, ...
Today the New York Times is running a long feature Cheniere Energy, an admirable Houston-based LNG company that has just cleared some major regulatory hurdles and is rushing to build several regasification terminals on the Gulf – thereby hol...
From the Washington Post: Yesterday, pressed by the Bush administration, Georgia allowed the Russian officers to return home. But Russia continued its bellicose acts, while improbably claiming that it — and not the poor nation of 5 million i...
The Accidental Russophile has posted an entry analyzing the role of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in the escalating conflict between Russia and Georgia. He writes: The question you should be asking is – why would the west even care about ...
Today the Eurasia Daily Monitor reports on the “Gas Gangsterism” of Russia’s intereference at Sakhalin II. Ferguson notes that “Some within the Russian government are reportedly concerned that Russia’s image as a place for ...
Today Jeffrey Mankoff of Harvard University has an opinion piece in the Moscow Times analyzing Sergei Lavrov’s speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Mankoff’s article gets a little caught up in a familiar polemic, one shaped...
Today the International Herald Tribune is carrying an op/ed I wrote. Oil weapon: It’s time for a long, hard look at Russia Robert R. Amsterdam, International Herald Tribune LONDON A global economic challenge has been presented by Russia, dri...
Joshua Kurlantzick has a powerful piece coming out in the next issue of the New Republic that ties together Russia, Iran, China, and the rise of an increasingly cozy alliance of dictatorships and petro-states. The War on Terror has consumed an eno...
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