11
Jan

Energy giant Gazprom wields power to plunge Europe into darkness

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/dan-roberts-on-business-blog/2010/jan/11/gas-oilandgascompanies

Gazprom has so much natural gas under the tundra of Siberia that its energy resources are equivalent to all the oil and gas fields owned by western energy companies put together.

10
Jan

How Russia is about to dramatically change the world.

Robert Morley of The Trumpet
Over the next few days, Russia will change the world. It has completed a new oil pipeline and port complex that sets Russia up to become a more powerful oil exporter than Saudi Arabia. The ramifications for Europe and Asia are profound: The shape of the global economy—and the global balance [...]