Fast-Moving Developments in Ukraine
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Tag Archives: Ukraine
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 →Putin Is a Pragmatic Realist
The post-Cold War era didn’t end with the Russian invasion of Crimea. It ended a decade ago. It is only now that Western politicians and opinion leaders have lost the possibility of continuing to deceive themselves. This is not the … 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.
Continue reading →TANAP gas pipeline may expand fourfold
The president of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), Rovnag Abdullaev, has announced that the US$8 billion-plus Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline may be expanded four-fold from its initially planned volume of 8-16 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y) to as … Continue reading →
Kazakhstan energy growth dynamism continues
Three recent developments testify to the latent dynamism of the Kazakhstan energy growth. These concern an extension of industrial cooperation with Ukraine and with India, and new plans for increasing the capacity of the pipeline of the Caspian Pipeline Corporation … Continue reading →
Azerbaijan energy export partners diversify
Ukraine looks likely soon to join the growing list of Azerbaijan energy export partners, as Baku continues to add to its findings of offshore natural gas. Ukraine is preparing to build its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to reduce … Continue reading →
Nabucco death postponed by European life-support
The European Council, in a meeting principally devoted to determining the European Union’s policy towards its eastern members and preparing an EU position for next week’s Group of 20 summit in London, also took an important decision last week on … Continue reading →
Caspian energy projects for Europe inch forward
Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR and Kazakhstan’s state monopoly KazMunaiGaz (KMG) this month signed an agreement moving Caspian energy projects for Europe forward as they set out the main principles for a transport system to convey Kazakhstani oil across the … Continue reading →