http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/ en Copyright 2010 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:40:48 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Viktor Yanukovych came first in the presidential elections in Ukraine, but Yuliya Tymoshenko has instructed lawyers to bring to the courts evidence of voting irregularities to put Yanukovych’s margin of victory under question. Even if the latter is able to muster a negative majority to oust her from office and form his own parliamentary majority, he may be forced to call new parliamentary elections. Nevertheless, he has already moved on the energy front through floating new proposals, if not yet able to offer them formally for legislative consideration. The elections in Ukraine change the odds also for other projects in the east-west energy corridor from Central Asia and the Caucasus to Europe. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2010/02/ukrainian_elections_complicate.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2010/02/ukrainian_elections_complicate.html Baltic Sea (region) Black Sea (region) Caspian Sea (region) Central Asia Eastern Europe Economy & Finance Energy & Policy European Union Russia South Caucasus Turkey Adria [pipeline] Akhmetov Azerbaijan Batumi Blue Stream [pipeline] Bulgaria Constanta Croatia Czech Republic Druzhba [pipeline] EAOTC Gazprom Gdansk Georgia Germany Hungary Interpipe Group Italy ITGI Kashagan Kazakhstan Khartsyzsk Pipe Plant Kherson Kralupy Kulevi Lithuania Nabucco [pipeline] Nord Stream Odessa-Brody [pipeline] Omisalj Pan-European Oil Pipeline Pinchuk Plock Poland Romania South Stream Southern Corridor Supsa Turkmenistan Tymoshenko Ukraine White Stream Yanukovych Yushchenko Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:40:48 -0500 The opening of the first segment of the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline last month is only one in a series of recent events in Caspian Sea basin energy developments. It signifies Turkmenistan’s first real moves to break its dependence upon Gazprom and the Russian state for international sales of its energy resources. These developments are to the detriment of Europe, which remains dependent upon Russia and Turkey as transit countries and has been unable to push forward the implementation of its Nabucco pipeline project. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2010/02/turkmenistanchina_gas_pipeline.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2010/02/turkmenistanchina_gas_pipeline.html Baltic Sea (region) Black Sea (region) Caspian Sea (region) Central Asia China Eastern Europe Economy & Finance Energy & Policy European Union Russia South Caucasus Turkey Alashankou Almaty (city) Altyn Asyr Aqtobe Azerbaijan Bagtiyarlyk Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan [pipeline] Bukhara-Tashkent [pipeline] Caspian Coastal Pipeline China CNPC Denmark Finland Gaffney Cline Gazprom Georgia Hu Jintao Karachaganak Kazakhstan Kazakhstan-China [pipeline] Kzyl-Orda Nabucco [pipeline] Niyazov Nord Stream Samandepe Samsun-Ceyhan [pipeline] Shanghai Shymkent South Kazakhstan [province] South Korea South Stream [pipeline] South Yolotan Sweden Turkmengaz Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan West-East Gas Pipeline White Stream Xinjiang Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:05:55 -0500 The fiscal crisis between Athens and Brussels puts EU credit and currency problems in the spotlight. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2010/01/zoning_in_on_greece.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2010/01/zoning_in_on_greece.html Domestic & Reform Economy & Finance European Union Integration & Cooperation Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:06:32 -0500 For over 15 years the U.S. has worked to promote cooperation over energy issues among the newly independent states in the Caspian Sea region. A proclaimed goal of U.S. energy policy in the region since the early 1990s has been to make certain that countries in the region do not have to depend upon any single export route that could easily be squeezed off. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/12/caspian_diplomacy_should_inten.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/12/caspian_diplomacy_should_inten.html Black Sea (region) Caspian Sea (region) Central Asia China Energy & Policy European Union Russia South Caucasus Turkey United States Azerbaijan Berlusconi BTC [pipeline] CPC [pipeline] de Hoop Scheffer Energy Charter (Treaty) Erdogan Kashagan Kazakhstan KCTS Nabucco NATO Putin Samsun-Ceyhan [pipeline] South Stream TCGP Trans-Anatolian [pipeline] Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Yeltsin Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:52:14 -0500 UE; viac ako 15 rokov sa Spojené štáty usilujú zintenzívniť kooperáciu medzi nezávislými krajinami kaspického regiónu v oblasti energetiky. Od začiatku 90. rokov je cieľom americkej energetickej politiky zabezpečiť, aby tieto krajiny nezáviseli len od jednej vývoznej trasy, ktorá by mohla byť ľahko prerušená.

]]> http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/12/kaspick_diplomaciu_je_nutn_zin.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/12/kaspick_diplomaciu_je_nutn_zin.html Black Sea (region) Caspian Sea (region) Central Asia China Energy & Policy European Union Russia Slovenský South Asia Turkey United States Azerbaijan Berlusconi BTC [pipeline] CPC [pipeline] de Hoop Scheffer Energy Charter (Treaty) Erdogan Kashagan Kazakhstan KCTS Nabucco NATO Putin Samsun-Ceyhan [pipeline] South Stream TCGP Trans-Anatolian [pipeline] Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Yeltsin Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:30:12 -0500 The differentiation in Russian policy and politics between President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minster Vladimir Putin is becoming more accentuated. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/11/medvedev_urges_change_to_primi.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/11/medvedev_urges_change_to_primi.html Domestic & Reform Economy & Finance Energy & Policy Russia South Caucasus Medvedev (Dmitrii) Putin Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:50:25 -0500 Recent energy and other developments in Southwest Asia, particularly involving Turkey, Iran and Iraq, sketch the outline of an imminent reorganization of international relations in the region. This will have knock-on effects for Eurasia as a whole and the shape of the international system in coming decades. At the same time, it suggests new and unexpected relevance of the mid-20th century geopolitical theorist Nicolas Spykman. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/11/the_rise_of_the_rimland.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/11/the_rise_of_the_rimland.html Black Sea (region) Caspian Sea (region) Central Asia China Conflict & Security Economy & Finance Energy & Policy Russia South Asia South Caucasus Southwest Asia Turkey United States Afghanistan Azerbaijan Ba’ath party Baghdad Ben Bella BP(-Amoco) CFP CNPC Comintern Davutoglu Eni Erdogan ExxonMobil Gulbenkian Hussein (Saddam) Indonesia INOC Iran Iraq Irbil Italy Japan Kennan Khrushchev Kirkuk Kurdistan (Iraq) Kurds Liska LUKoil Mackinder Mossadeq Nabucco Nixon Nkrumah OMV OPEC Ottoman Empire Pakisntan Ponomarev Royal Dutch Shell RWE Safavid Empire South Korea Southern Corridor Spykman StatOil(Hydro) Sukarno Syria TPC/IPC Uzbekistan West Qurna Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:46:37 -0500 An Iranian official's declaration that his country has entered into negotiations with European firms about the supply of natural gas into the Nabucco pipeline intended to supply Europe via Turkey was rejected this week by one of the firms concerned. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/11/iran_claim_clouds_turkeys_ener.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/11/iran_claim_clouds_turkeys_ener.html Azerbaijan Davutoglu Erdogan Gazprom Iran Israel Kazakhtan Lake Tuz Nabucco NATO Neka Nord Stream RWE Schoeder South Pars TPAO Turkmenistan UNSC Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:12:24 -0500 http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/turkmenistan_gas_sets_ciceroni.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/turkmenistan_gas_sets_ciceroni.html Caspian Sea (region) Central Asia Eastern Europe Economy & Finance Energy & Policy European Union Russia United States Azerbaijan Berdimuhamedow Cicero Dubnov ETG Gaffney Cline Kakaev Niyazov Shah-Deniz South Yoloton Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Yashlar Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:22:29 -0500 In all the debate and speculation over the various pipelines planned for the Caspian-South Caucasus corridor and adjacent regions (Nabucco, South Stream, White Stream, and Trans-Caspian Gas Pipelines in addition to various oil pipeline projects), the troubled state of energy relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey has been lost from view, mainly due to their stellar cooperation in the past over the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and South Caucasus Pipeline for gas in particular. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/azerbaijan_and_turkey_clash_ov.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/azerbaijan_and_turkey_clash_ov.html Black Sea (region) Caspian Sea (region) Central Asia Eastern Europe Economy & Finance Energy & Policy European Union Russia South Caucasus Southwest Asia Turkey Aliev (Ilham) Azerbaijan Berdimuhamedov Botas BTC Duzyol (Saltuk) Erdogan ITGI Nabucco Pan-European Oil Pipeline Piebalgs Putin Romania Samsun-Ceyhan SCP Shah-Deniz Sochi South Stream Southern Corridor TCGP TPAO Ukraine White Stream Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:14:48 -0500 Price limit on China's Russian friendship.] การไปเยือนจีนของนายกรัฐมนตรี วลาดิมีร์ ปูติน แห่งรัสเซียในสัปดาห์นี้ บ่งบอกให้ทราบว่าความร่วมมือในระดับยุทธศาสตร์ระหว่างประเทศทั้งสองกำลังมี การพัฒนาขยับเข้าใกล้ชิดกันมากยิ่งขึ้น อย่างไรก็ดี การที่ปักกิ่งตกลงใจที่จะใช้วิธีต่อรองอย่างเต็มเหนี่ยว สำหรับราคาก๊าซที่จะนำเข้าจากแดนหมีขาว อันเป็นท่าทีที่เปลี่ยนแปลงไปจากความอะลุ้มอะล่วยด้วยการเสนอให้เงินกู้แบบ ผ่อนปรนในโครงการเกี่ยวกับน้ำมันของมอสโกเมื่อต้นปีนี้ ก็เป็นเครื่องบ่งชี้ว่าความร่วมมือกันดังกล่าวนี้มีข้อจำกัดของมันอยู่ ]]> http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/post_44.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/post_44.html China Conflict & Security Economy & Finance Energy & Policy Russia ภาษาไทย CNPC Eastern Gas Program ESPO [pipeline] Gazprom Jiangsu Kovytka Putin Sechin Tianwan Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:43:42 -0500 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to China this week is the latest indicator that the rapprochement in Russian-Chinese relations, initiated through the 2001 bilateral "Treaty on Good-Neighborly Relations, Friendship and Cooperation", which provided for increased Russian arms sales to China and the training of Chinese officers at Russian military schools, is developing steadily into closer strategic cooperation. Burgeoning cooperation in the energy sphere dates from Putin's December 2002 visit to China, as president, when it was agreed that a project for a gas export pipeline to China would be elaborated, with the Kovytka gas field being the most likely candidate for supply. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/price_limit_on_chinas_russian.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/price_limit_on_chinas_russian.html China Conflict & Security Economy & Finance Energy & Policy Russia CNPC Eastern Gas Program ESPO [pipeline] Gazprom Jiangsu Kovytka Putin Sechin Tianwan Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:51:34 -0500 Kazakhstan points route out of crisis» атты мақала жариялап, соңғы уақытта біздің еліміздің халықаралық деңгейде үлкен саяси-экономикалық маңызы бар шешімдерге қол жеткізіп, дағдарыстан шығар жолды көрсеткені туралы тұжырым жасаған.]]> http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/post_31.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/post_31.html Caspian Sea (region) Central Asia China Domestic & Reform Economy & Finance Energy & Policy Қазақ Arcelor-Mittal Baku BTC [pipeline] China Investment Corp. Eskene Europipe GTS Kashagan Kazakhstan KazMunaiGaz KCTS [pipeline] Kuryk Manesmann-France MangistauMunaiGaz Nazarbaev Sarkozy Spie Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:41:10 -0500 Визит президента Франции Николя Саркози в Казахстан для подписания сделки по трубопроводу ознаменовал собой неделю, на которой произошло два других важных события (в том числе новый подход к реструктурированию банка), "отслеживающие", как страна, приведенная в боевую готовность, стремится преодолеть экономический кризис. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/post_27.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/post_27.html Caspian Sea (region) Central Asia China Domestic & Reform Economy & Finance Energy & Policy Русский Arcelor-Mittal Baku BTC [pipeline] China Investment Corp. Eskene Europipe GTS Kashagan Kazakhstan KazMunaiGaz KCTS [pipeline] Kuryk Manesmann-France MangistauMunaiGaz Nazarbaev Sarkozy Spie Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:25:44 -0500 French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Kazakhstan for the signing of an energy pipeline deal marked a week that included two other significant events, including a novel approach to bank restructuring, that trace how the embattled country is seeking to surmount the economic crisis. Kazakhstan, Central Asia's largest economy, has moved to reinforce its banking system, hard hit by the world economic crisis, by agreeing with the creditors of Alliance Bank on terms for restructuring the financial institution. This is the first time that such a deal has been struck without the bank first having been taken under the state's protection. http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/kazakhstan_points_route_out_of.html http://www.robertcutler.org/blog/2009/10/kazakhstan_points_route_out_of.html Caspian Sea (region) Central Asia China Domestic & Reform Economy & Finance Energy & Policy Alliance Bank Arcelor-Mittal Baku BTC [pipeline] China Investment Corp. Eskene Europipe GTS Kashagan Kazakhstan KazMunaiGaz KCTS [pipeline] Kuryk Manesmann-France MangistauMunaiGaz Nazarbaev Sarkozy Spie Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:14:54 -0500