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...remain free gives Pakistan a card to play if or when the U.S. decides to vacate Afghanistan. "If money and support were to stop from the Pakistani side, the Taliban would be finished," says Mullah "Rocketi," a former Taliban commander who earned his nickname for his accuracy in shooting Soviet tanks and who spent time at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...
...There's a particular irony in recent developments because it was Khodorkovsky - now behind bars - who first demonstrated to the world how viable Russian oil can be. Back in the 1990s, that wasn't self-evident. The collapse of the Soviet Union was accompanied by a slide in Russian oil production, from a peak of almost 11 million bbl. per day in 1987 to just 6 million in 1996. Yukos blazed the trail - and helped reverse the oil slump - by investing heavily in existing fields in Siberia, bringing in Western technology and dozens of American and other experienced foreign managers...
...joint venture, called TNK BP. The surprises are all good: it has revised the level of reserves upward, production growth is well above the expected 7% annual increase, and the firm has decided to double its capital spending to make more of the opportunities it is finding. In the Soviet era, BP officials explain, oil wells were developed in a cookie-cutter approach; by tailoring solutions to each reservoir and well, the officials say, it's possible to exploit them far more productively...
...What he often fails to mention in his Horatio Alger?style tale is that he spent almost four years in jail as a teenager for robbery and assault, though the charges were later reversed. Genial but wooden tongued, more fluent in Russian than Ukrainian, Yanukovych is reminiscent of a Soviet-era party boss, an image aided by his almost 2 m, 109-kg frame. That style goes down well in his conservative home base in the Donbass, Ukraine's industrial powerhouse, where the Russian-leaning (and -speaking) population tends to view his rival, Viktor Yushchenko, as a pawn...
...joint venture, called TNK BP. The surprises are all good: it has revised the level of reserves upward, production growth is well above the expected 7% annual increase, and the firm has decided to double its capital spending to make more of the opportunities it is finding. In the Soviet era, BP officials explain, oil wells were developed in a cookie-cutter approach that didn't customize extraction techniques to the needs of individual fields. By tailoring solutions to each reservoir and well, the officials say, it's possible to exploit them far more productively...