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Oil and Glory

http://www.oilandglory.com

Oil and Glory looks at the main issue facing the world today -- oil -- and the politics of the main countries that have it.

• Added on: Jul 21st, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Steve LeVine
• Listed in: International Affairs Green Politics
• Tags: oil war energy trade russia natural gas

Recent Posts

• Book Review: In 1989, Economics, Not Dissidents, Ruled the Day

  Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 09:00 in solidarity, gorbachev, berlin wall, jan gross, soviet collapse, 1989 revolutions, kotkin

  By Sasha MeyerA region ruled by dictators who came to power with promises of a great and prosperous future. A cultivated nationalism characterizes governance. Dissidents are small in number, disparate and isolated from society. And political oppositi...

• The Oil and Glory Interview: Charles Clover on the Siloviki\'s Possibly Lesser Role

  Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 09:22 in putin, kgb, medvedev, siloviki, charles clover

  The conventional wisdom is that the foundation of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's power is the siloviki, the current and former intelligence and military officers who have been drawn into powerful political and commercial positions over the l...

• The Oil and Glory Interview: Hugh Pope on the Armenia-Turkey Rapprochment

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 23:12 in Turkey, armenia, azerbaijan, nagorno-karabakh, armenia-turkey protocols

  In October, Armenia and Turkey signed protocols that -- if ratified by their respective parliaments -- will open their shared border and in multiple ways normalize relations between the two traditional antagonists. Given the region's numerous nationa...

• Magnitsky and Toting Up the Deadly Price of Legal Defense

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 08:59 in khodorkovsky, browder, platon lebedev, magnitsky

  The last several years have proven dangerous for Russian lawyers. Vasily Aleksanyan, lawyer for fallen oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was jailed for two years before being released last year, stricken with AIDS and cancer. Stanislav Markelov, a lawye...

• Radio Appearance

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 07:30 in putin, medvedev, politkovskaya, hermitage, browder, klebnikov, magnitsky, litvinanko

  I was interviewed about murder and death in Russia on My Technology Lawyer, a radio show hosted by Andrew Kreig and Scott Draughton. ...

• Real-Estate Bubbles and Optimism on the Caspian

  Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 08:52 in real estate bubble, asset bubble, kazakhstan real estate

  Oil and gas were go-go drivers of the former Soviet economy for years -- until the U.S. subprime catastrophe cut off the flow of easy Western loans. Businesspeople in Russia, Kazakhstan and elsewhere socked away their personal profits and skimmings, ...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 4.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Benno Hansen

This is a very specialized and strictly on topic blog written by an EXPERT. Not to be missed if you are into topics like peak oil, geopolitics or Russia.

Posted: September 5th, 2009 | More Reviews From bennohansen | Report This Comment

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