"Reheating the Cold War"

MaxSt · Post by **MaxSt** » 28 Mar 2006 05:07

Интересно индийский друг пишет, увлекательно. Рекомендую.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HC24Ag02.html

Beseder · Post by **Beseder** » 28 Mar 2006 05:41

Thanks. Сперва подумал, длинновато, а потом все прочел не отрываясь. Верно пишет, что сказать.

CBI · Post by **CBI** » 28 Mar 2006 06:40

lxf · Post by **lxf** » 30 Mar 2006 17:32

IMHO, суть здесь:

The "victor" ending up as a dependant of the "vanquished" - it is a rare occurrence in history. It creates profound psychological problems. It can be the stuff of cold wars.

VladG2 · Post by **VladG2** » 30 Mar 2006 19:15

спасибо, интересно написано

VladG2 · Post by **VladG2** » 31 Mar 2006 03:10

Thus the main purpose of Putin's visit to Hungary and the Czech Republic this month was energy politics. Against the backdrop of Hungary sourcing more than 80% of its gas needs from Russia, Putin suggested the construction of a second section of the Blue Stream pipeline (connecting Russia and Turkey) to proceed to Hungary as well and to the entire southeastern region of Europe. This comes at a time when the US is encouraging the EU to hasten with the Nabucco pipeline project linking Austria to potential Iranian, Turkmen, Azeribaijani and Kazakh gas supplies as an alternative to Russian gas supplies.

On similar lines, Putin invited Prague to use the North European gas pipeline connecting Germany. Clearly, Russia not only wants to consolidate its position on the central and southeastern European market, but the Russian proposals to Hungary and the Czech Republic involve pipelines bypassing Ukraine, the thorn that the US planted on Russia's sensitive western flanks after the "regime change" in Kiev early last year.

Thus Russian companies have been given monopoly rights for oil production in the Sahara Desert; Russia's Gazprom will participate in the development and production of Algeria's gas sector; and Algeria will share with Russia its sophisticated Western technologies in gas liquefaction.

Most important, Russia and Algeria decided to work together in the European market. Algeria is Europe's only viable alternative source of gas at present, ranking fourth in the world as a gas-exporting country. Algeria's gas pipelines connect Italy, Spain, Portugal and Slovenia. It exports LNG to France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey and the US.