Tag: ukraine

March 6, 2014 0

Natural Gas Hoarding in Europe Thanks to US Sanction Proposals; Boehner vs. McCain; LNG the Solution

By News Desk

Bloomberg reports Europe’s Russia Gas Imports Jump to 3-Week High as Buyers Hoard . European utilities boosted imports of natural gas from Russia to the highest level in three weeks even as storage remains at record-high levels amid the mildest winter since 2007. Russia shipped 493 million cubic meters of gas to Europe, excluding the Baltic States, on March 3, the highest level since Feb

March 1, 2014 0

Thanks a lot, Khruschev

By News Desk

Tweet The news from Crimea is unsettling , partly because it’s not entirely clear to me whether it’s bad to have Crimea reattached to Russia in some form. From a utilitarian perspective, removing the most eastern-oriented portion of Ukraine from its electoral politics would pretty much guarantee a western-oriented political outcome.