Central Asia Asia Times | By Pepe Escobar | Whatever the results of the EU-Russia summit this Thursday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, there seems to be one clear winner: the Gazprom nation - Russia. | With the United States - the European Union's No 1 trade partner and N...
Global Economy Asia Times | THE ROVING EYE | Oil's slippery slope | By Pepe Escobar | BRUSSELS and DUBAI - As the neo-conservative dream of a "liberated" Iraq came true in April 2003, who would have predicted that 16 months later oil would become the ultimate time bomb for th...
Russia's great gas game Gulf News | Russia and the European Union are geopolitical neighbours. Whether or not their relationship is in fact neighbourly, rather than tense and confrontational, is of critical importance to both. | Unless it modernises its economy and society, Russia can forget its claim to status as a world power in the 21st century and will continue to fall behind b...
