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...failed to foresee the impact on the European countries that feed off the same pipeline and already pay the market price. European Union powers like Germany, Russia’s largest energy importer, and Italy saw their flows reduced by more than a third and, with U.S. backing, pressed Moscow to reach a stabilizing agreement with Ukraine. At a time when thre is reduced oil production in Iraq, and Norway is already pumping oil at full power, there was no excess capacity from which Europe could benefit. Clearly, the pressure was on. Not surprisingly, the involved parties swiftly reached...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: From Russia With Cold | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

...this year. But no one will be giving him the benefit of the doubt after the dramatic resignation of his economic adviser, the outspoken liberal reformer Andrei Illarionov, 44. The economist, a Kremlin maverick, fought to curb state interference in the economy, particularly in the energy sector. But with Moscow tightening its grip on oil and natural gas, Illarionov was recently stripped of a key post with the G-8 and had his staff cut. Illarionov implies he had been under pressure to keep quiet. "I chose to resign instead," he tells TIME. His exit came as Moscow sparred with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putin Boots A Reformer | 1/3/2006 | See Source »

...golf outings to tickets to sporting events. So far, only one Representative, Bob Ney of Ohio, has been identified in public Justice Department documents as part of the Abramoff investigation, though he has not been charged. Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who traveled with Abramoff to Scotland and Moscow in 1997 and 2000, is among as many as 40 current and former lawmakers and staffers believed to be under scrutiny by a Justice-led task force looking into Abramoff's activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Jack's Guilty Plea | 1/3/2006 | See Source »

...accounts for 75% of its business. "Expansion into North America is a key strategic objective for Arcelor," Dollé explained. Arcelor's hyperactive end to the year was just part of a huge wave of mergers and acquisitions that is sweeping Europe these days; in boardrooms from Manchester to Moscow, cross-border strategies similar to Dollé's are the driving force. In Europe and globally, 2005 is poised to go down in the record books as the third best year for M&A activity in history. Morgan Stanley reckons the total volume of European transactions will hit $1 trillion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's High Time for Mixing Brands | 12/31/2005 | See Source »

...Illarionov: By using economic weapons-particularly, energy as a weapon-RAO UES bought a power station in the Transdniester Republic (a breakaway Moldova province, very much under Moscow's influence), and then cut off Moldova from this key power supplier, until Moldova met its terms. Transneft (Russia's state-owned oil pipe monopoly), blocked oil flowing from Kazakhstann to Lithuania, because Russia coveted Lithuania's oil refinery. The latest such case is abruptly raising natural gas prices fourfold for Ukraine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Putin's Critical Adviser | 12/31/2005 | See Source »

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