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Russia Secures Control of Key Oil Pipeline

This is huge.

Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have signed a landmark deal to build a gas pipeline.

The pipeline will strengthen Moscow’s control over Central Asian energy export routes, analysts said.

It also deals a blow to European Union hopes of securing alternative routes that would bypass Russia.

The pipeline will skirt the Caspian Sea from Turkmenistan to southern Russia via Kazakhstan and will be built by the end of 2010.

The trilateral agreement was signed in Moscow in the presence of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan.

Posted by Owen at 0751 hrs
Foreign Affairs

1. George W. Chimp…2004 Man o the Year

   “For sharpening the debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality to match his design, for gambling his fortunes?and ours?on his faith in the power of leadership, George W. Bush is TIME’s 2004 Person of the Year.”

   ROFLMAO

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2. This really was the only option.  The other routes would have taken it through Iran or the Caucasus.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 21, 2007 at 1139 hrs
   
   
   

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