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In 2003-2008, the Kremlin, under Vladimir Putin's leadership, has consolidated control over domestic and foreign hydrocarbon assets. The strategic goal is to make Russia's state-owned "national leaders", such as Gazprom, into global supermajors.  The crackdown started with YUKOS (2003-2004) and...

Foreign investment in Russia will probably continue to decline.  Russia has adopted a stringent new law on foreign investment reserving the really important sectors to the state and there is no sign that the state will  either move to a true rule of law, despite Medvedev's statements on the...

There any many imponderables in the CBO estimates, including the period of marketing exclusivity (if any) granted by not-yet-passed legislation and the extent to which the FDA requires new clinical trials for follow-on biologics.  I would argue, therefore, that their predictions are prema...

Dealing with the Iranian regime is extremely important since nothing substantive can be accomplished in the Middle East without dealing with Iran.

While EU sanctions are a negative development from Iran's point of view they do not represent the end of the road.We have to recall that such sanctions have never had its intended effects while their negative consequences,mostly unintended,have been pronounced. Politically it will reduce EU's...

It should be clear that Russia holds Europe at ransom, in so far the oil and, particularly, natural gas. Thus,  if Russia chose to help Teheran advance Iranian nukes, both, diplomatically and by the know-how, she must obviously assume similar scenario to this:   (1)  Sanctions...

Israeli warnings about attacking Iran are not bluffs.  Israel sees Iran as willing to execute its threats to attack Israel or to extend deterrence to terrorists and provide ithem with other material support with which to attack israel.  Moreover, talk that Iran does not have...

Recent revelations about the existence of a black-market design for a nuclear warhead originating with A.Q. Khan's organization that Iran might have obtained are disturbing.  Khan sold Iran and others technology with which to obtain the fissile material needed for a bomb.  This includes technology...

Saves employers office space, desk space, parking space all of which can now be allocated on a shared basis. Saves employees increasingly more expensive travel costs due to rising petrol costs, road fees, and wear and tear on the human and the auto. Everything performs best in a relaxed state. less...

Let us shunt aside the very real scientific disagreements that persist about the magnitude, sources, and implications of global temperature changes over the last century (ending, by the way, in 1998).  Let us ask instead what actual effects the various international proposals for reductions in...