telegraph.co.uk - 12/28/2008
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the opening ceremony of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Moscow.
forbes.com - 12/24/2008
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forbes.com —
Russia will run a budget deficit in 2009
for the first time in a decade as low...
oil prices take their toll on government revenue, a Kremlin official said Wednesday, the state RIA-Novosti news agency reported. Arkady Dvorkovich, the president's economic ...
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Russia expects first deficit in a decade
businessweek.com - 12/24/2008
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businessweek.com —
Zach Shore , who teaches at the Naval
Post-Graduate School in Monterey, usually writes about foreign affairs...
with a historical bent -- on militant Islam in Europe , and on Hitler . Now, though, Shore has taken on a sweeping, big-picture theme -- how ...
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Blunder: A New Age for Russia
online.wsj.com - 12/29/2008
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ANDREW OSBORN MOSCOW -- For a decade, Russian
academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will...
fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the ...
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As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor ...
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Russia looks to control world's gas prices
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... with pride. Yet this month's event will be dwarfed by one to come early next year, when the sprawling plant on the tip of Russia's Far Eastern island of Sakhalin begins producing liquefied natural gas, or LNG, a relatively new form of energy. The advent of LNG may one day allow gas exporting countries, who gathered in Moscow last week to create a new organisation, to act as a cartel along the lines of Opec, holding sway over prices and supply, and thus consumers around the world. Telegraph
DrumBeat: December 28, 2008
The Oil Drum —
Russia look to control world's gas prices
The Russian national anthem blared over the loudspeakers as dozens of oilmen and officials braved the freezing cold to watch the tanker come in, celebrating the launch of year-round oil production from Sakhalin-2, the largest oil and gas project in the world.
They congratulated themselves and stared out to the sea with pride.
Yet this month's event will be dwarfed by one to come early next year, when the sprawling plant on the tip of Russia's Far Eastern island of Sakhalin begins producing liquefied natural ...
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