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Russia Values Oil More Than War
Moscow obviously did not want to cause any additional anxiety among
European consumers. Nor did it want to deal Tbilisi any unnecessary
trump cards for its blame game. From what is possible to deduce from
scarce information provided by official sources, Russia's restraint in
targeting Georgia's highly vulnerable energy infrastructure was
confirmed...
Kazakhstan considers to divert oil export route from BTC to Russia
A high level Kazakh official told Turkish business daily Referans that
question marks now hang over the security of the BTC pipeline. "We
could reconsider our decisions on sending Kazak oil to the world
market. Changing the (export) route is in our agenda now," the official
was quoted as saying by Referans.
Russia and Iran: crisis of the west, rise of the rest
But it is in more than the military sphere that the image of a
resurgent and powerful Russia is less grounded in reality than its
projectors often allow. Russia's economic performance is crucially (and
dysfunctionally in the longer run) dependent on its energy resources,
and there is a critical need for heavy investment in the oil-and-gas
sector if current revenues are even to be maintained. The country also
has great social problems (which are felt inside the military and have
the potential to damage its standards and performance): among them a
declining and aging population, rampant alcoholism, and low male
life-expectancy for men (see Rebecca Kay, "'Being a man' in
contemporary Russia", 7 March 2008). These factors must be part of an
overall judgment of the true face of Russian power today; and taken
together they suggest that Russia has far less capacity to undertake a
unilateral drive to restore its great-power status than it might appear.
Gazprom Falls as Analysts `Shocked' by Spending Plan
William Mauldin and Greg Walters, Bloomberg
OAO Gazprom,
the world's biggest natural-gas producer, fell in Moscow trading after
analysts said they were ``shocked'' by the company's plans to raise its
investment budget to more than $40 billion this year.
... Russia's natural-gas exporter may raise its investment budget
for 2008 by about 25 percent, Interfax reported yesterday, citing
Deputy Chief Executive Officer Valery Golubev. Gazprom last month
already increased the budget for 2008 by 16 percent to a record 822
billion rubles ($33.8 billion).
(22 August 2008)
