Analysis
February 10, 2012The Eastern European former Soviet countries of Moldova, Ukraine, and Belarus are important to Russia for many reasons, “including geographic location and economic relations,” writes the American Agency for Analysis STRATFOR. According to...
Analysis: Putin prods PACE to rescind Saakashvili invitation
January 23, 2008Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor On January 17 Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) President Rene van der Linden paid a farewell visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. With van der Linden’s term as...
Analysis: Resistance growing to the Baltic seabed pipeline project
April 23, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor The Russo-German project for a gas pipeline on the Baltic seabed is meeting with growing skepticism and resistance in the region. The Gazprom-led consortium, Nord Stream, has now unwittingly added to those...
Analysis: Russian government spelling out Baltic oil transport plans
April 20, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Addressing the “Pipeline Transport 2007” conference in Moscow on April 17, Transneft president Semyon Vainshtok and Deputy Industry and Energy Minister Andrei Dementiev declared that expansion...
Moscow now seeks to tempt Voronin into dissolving parliament
April 17, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor Moscow is using the negotiations on resolving the Transnistria conflict as a means to weaken Moldova’s political system. This is a collateral goal of the negotiating channel run by Security Council...
Analysis: Russia's 'parties of power' face off in local elections
March 13, 2007Author: Jonas Bernstein While the final results are not yet in for the legislative elections that took place on March 11 in 14 Russian regions, the preliminary results point to the outcome most observers expected: an overwhelming victory for Unified...
Analysis: Lukoil at the crossroads
March 12, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor The destruction of Yukos by the Russian state left Lukoil as Russia’s largest oil company not controlled by the Kremlin, though of necessity loyal to it and often in its graces. Lukoil’s nominal...
Analysis: First Russian-operated pipeline on European Union territory rears its head
March 02, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, The Eurasia Daily Monitor Given the policy vacuum in Brussels and Washington, the EU member countries Greece and Bulgaria are far advanced in negotiations with Russia on constructing a Russian state-operated oil transit pipeline...
Analysis: Questionable rationales for the Bohorodchany-Uzhhorod gas pipeline project
February 28, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, The Eurasia Daily Monitor, The Ukrainian government is stepping up its efforts to form a consortium with Gazprom to construct a gas transit pipeline in Ukraine from Bohorodchany to Uzhhorod. The 230-kilometer line, with a projected...