All Gas Or Just Hot Air?
This is a kind of bits-and-bobs post without a lot of coherence, as I am trying to make sense of something which is hard to make sense of, so anyone with more specialist knowledge, please chip-in. Now...
View ArticleBulgaria Says “Thanks, But No Thanks”
Over at TYR, I argued that the explanation of the Ukraine-Russia gas dispute was an effort by the Russian side to break up the European gas customers as a negotiating block by exploiting the conflict...
View ArticleDid Russia come out ahead in the gas crisis?
Expanding on (and slightly copying) my comments in Edward’s post below, I was really shocked to see the spin in the western coverage of the Ukrainian gas crisis. The part that didn’t shock me – just...
View ArticleEU Energy Policy II
Well the new EU energy plan has been released (and here, and you can also find the actual Commission statement here). The final product is pretty much as the leaks suggested. As was indicated...
View ArticleSerbia sells its energy company to Russia
“Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.” — Schiller So Serbia’s government has agreed to sell its oil and gas company, NIS, to Russia’s Gazprom. By itself there’s nothing wrong with...
View ArticleWhy you shouldn’t care about Nagorno-Karabakh (and why you might one day have...
A while back I started a series on “frozen conflicts” in the former USSR. The first two (on Transnistria) can be found here and here. I was planning to do them in order from least bad to worst (which...
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