The Dilettante abides
The Dilettante abides
Craig Kennedy, a member of the advisory board at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, has posted a long read on sanctions against Russia’s oil sector, Russian Oil’s Achilles Heel. It’s the best I’ve read on the subject.…
La Fontaine’s fox, the connoisseur of grapes, was all-French, as it were – “Gascon, some say Norman” – and in keeping with his roots, he preferred wisecracking to whining, which his creator appreciated. American shale oil, sweet as a rule,…
A few more comments on Putin’s latest foray through tight formations. But first, a look back at his remarks in April 2013: Furthermore, extracting shale gas and shale oil, which is also possible, is tied to enormous – I want…
During a televised Q&A session in April 2013, Vladimir Putin responded to a journalist’s claim that Gazprom had mistakenly written off the shale gas revolution as a short-term fluke: So it’s hard to say whether Gazprom missed the ‘shale-gas revolution’…
From the 1990s until very recently, domestic critics of government policies repeated the mantra that Russia was but a resource appendage of the West. Now that Russia’s use of Western financial markets and petroleum technology has been restricted, China seems…