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...crude prices and Iraq in turmoil, Russia's vast untapped wealth of oil and gas has never looked more attractive. To be sure, there are production challenges: many of the reserves are located in remote locations deep in Siberia or above the Arctic Circle, and transport depends on clunky Soviet-era railways and pipelines whose leaks are frequently decried by Greenpeace and other environmental activists. Nonetheless, the Western oil companies are eager to export Russia's oil reserves, which are conservatively estimated at 70 billion bbl.--more than double those...
There's a particular irony in the Russian-oil story because it was Khodorkovsky--now behind bars--who first demonstrated to the world just 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...
...Bush savors his triumph, the history books beckon. And you can help him take a page from Ronald Reagan, who in his second term forsook the mean streets of the cold war for the high road of history-making diplomacy. Reagan's reward was breathtaking. He brought down the Soviet empire without a shot being fired. Here are some ideas on how to reunite America's strength with trust and respect. Let's start with the easy stuff. Perhaps 50% of the trouble with American foreign policy during the first term was due to "Rumsfeldism," the penchant for gratuitously riling...
...Early last year, U.S. Customs agents based in Newark, New Jersey, infiltrated a network of child pornography websites run by criminals in Belarus, a country in the former Soviet bloc. The agents had compiled a record of more than 70,622 transactions from voyeurs around the world who had logged on to buy the pornography using their credit cards. The Americans passed details of the transactions thought to have originated in Australia to the Australian High Tech Crime Centre, hosted by the Australian Federal Police; the AHTCC traced addresses for the suspects on the list, confirmed their identities and forwarded...
That was the case in 1944, when F.D.R. fought a very tough re-election campaign. It was equally the case in 1980, when the Reagan-Carter slugfest took place in the shadow of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And at some point, especially in foreign policy, when the stakes are invested so heavily in the man in the Oval Office, you have to give the winner a chance, a fresh start, a honeymoon to do what he thinks is in the best interests of the country...