By Ian Pryde on May 14, 2007
in Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Energy, Europe, Gas, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Oil, Poland, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA-Novosti) – Last Thursday, Russia’s President Putin arrived in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, for the start of a week-long visit to Central Asia, which will focus on energy. But the visit is not just about oil and gas. Electricity generation and transmission and atomic energy…
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MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – Russia’s already poor image took another hit last weekend with the arrest of former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and the heavy-handed tactics of the police against demonstrators in Moscow, pictures of which went around the world. Despite the claims about the Kremlin’s…
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