The EU and Chances for the Turkish Stream Pipeline
Interview on John Batchelor Show, WABC-AM 770 (New York City), 22 January 2015. … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Russia
Russia’s “Turkish Stream” Pipeline Idea: A New Energy Move against Europe?
Russia continues to play hardball with natural gas for the European Union, trying to get Brussels to sacrifice Ukraine in return for the promise of better relations with Moscow. This geo-economic and power-political jousting is conditioned by the fact that EU sanctions against Russia will begin to expire in three phases between March and July unless there is an EU consensus to keep them in place.
Continue reading →Why Russia Killed the South Stream Natural Gas Pipeline
Interview on John Batchelor Show, WABC-AM 770 (New York City), 10 December 2014. … Continue reading →
Canada Should Buy the Mistrals from France
Helicopter-carriers for Russia embargoed by France match Canada’s coastal fleet modernization needs French president François Hollande’s several weeks ago to Canada opens the way to resolving at least one thorny problem created by the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea. … Continue reading →
Why Edward Snowden will stay in Moscow
NSA leaker Edward Snowden has applied to the Russian government for the extension of his temporary asylum, which expires July 31. There is public debate among the Western (but not the Russian) commentariat about whether his application will be granted. … Continue reading →
Putin’s trade deal with China confirms Russian transformation
The major news out of China this week has surely been Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to Shanghai, which concluded with Wednesday’s agreement whereby Russia will supply China with Siberian gas for 30 years. The Ukraine crisis has something … Continue reading →
Fast-Moving Developments in Ukraine
Interview on Tommy Schnurmacher Show, Radio CJAD-AM 800, Montreal. … Continue reading →
Putin Is Playing Cat-and-Mouse with Ukraine
Now that Putin has successfully devoured Crimea, it is only the West that has indigestion. Pausing only politely after that appetizer, he has now begun to digest Ukraine proper. Perhaps it would be more exact that he has begun to … Continue reading →
When Putin Called Obama
The U.S. version of the call did not mention that Putin talked about Transdnistria, a landlocked breakaway region of Moldova on the eastern bank of the Dnistr River and bordering on southwest central Ukraine.
Continue reading →Russian Gas, Pipeline Transit, European Integration, and the Fate of Ukraine
The fate of Ukraine’s gas transportation system is a bellwether for the political fate of Ukraine in the first half of the present century and beyond.
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