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President and CEO. Pricaspian Development Corporation Founder of a number of oil & gas and gold ventures exploration and development in the former Soviet Union Active in international oil and natural gas and gold in the former Soviet Union, Middle East, Africa, Far East and Latin America President and CEO

at African Petroleum Forum in London, England, March 2004 Speaker at 8th African United Nations Oil & Gas, Trade & Finance Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, April 2004 Speaker at 10th Annual Latin Oil & Gas 2004 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2004 Speaker at African Petroleum Forum in Hous

ries and they wish to break away and form a separate country, that should always be an option. After all, the world mostly rejoiced when the former Soviet Union and its empire collapsed and some of its constituent republics fragmented into smaller units, notably Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. We should be

, monarchy has found a way over the decades and centuries to engender a political legitimacy of its own, allowing leaders like King Mohammed VI in Morocco, King Abdullah in Jordan and Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman to grant their subjects a wide berth of individual liberties without fear of being over

,000 of EFTA_R1_00230144 EFTA01842820 whom are immigrants who arrived in Israel over the last two decades in the exodus of Jews from the former Soviet Union. It is the most populous community in the so-called Ariel bloc, a 40,000-strong chain of 15 settlements (Karnei Shomron, Knesset member Michael Be

Islamists, Washington is now scrambling to come to terms with -- and even befriend -- these new political actors, whether in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Morocco and elsewhere. Unlike Qatar's earlier mediations, this switch to activist policies inevitably makes enemies as well as friends. Not the least of Q

el has a population of 17,600 -- 7,000 of whom are immigrants who arrived in Israel over the last two decades in the exodus of Jews from the former Soviet Union. It is the most populous community in the so- called Ariel bloc, a 40,000-strong chain of 15 settlements (Karnei Shomron, Knesset member Michael Ben

Islamists, Washington is now scrambling to come to terms with -- and even befriend -- these new political actors, whether in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Morocco and elsewhere. Unlike Qatar's earlier mediations, this switch to activist policies inevitably makes enemies as well as friends. Not the least of Qa

n President and CEO, Pricaspian Development Corporation Founder of a number of oil & gas and gold ventures exploration and development in the former Soviet Union Active in international oil and natural gas and gold in the former Soviet Union, Middle East, Africa, Far East and Latin America President and CEO,

at African Petroleum Forum in London, England, March 2004 Speaker at 8th African United Nations Oil & Gas, Trade & Finance Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, April 2004 Speaker at 10th Annual Latin Oil & Gas 2004 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2004 Speaker at African Petroleum Forum in Houst

sclerosis. But the pessimism is unwarranted, because none of these three challenges is insurmountable. MODERNIZING MUSLIMS The Islamic world, from Morocco to Indonesia, comprises 1.6 billion citizens-more than one in five people on the planet. The vast majority of them share the common global aspiration

centuate the process of civilizational fusion. In contrast to China and India, Russia has held back from thoroughly embracing modernity, even though the Soviet Union started modernizing before China and India. Russia hesitated to join the World Trade Organization and has not yet accepted that ungrudging participat

has long funded Hamas and Hezbollah; recently, its scope of attempted interference has broadened to include the affairs of Arab states from Yemen to Morocco. This month the chief of staff of Iran's armed forces, Gen. Hasan Firouzabadi, harshly criticized Riyadh over its intervention in Bahrain, claiming t

ker. The opening to China is a story Kissinger has told before: how he and Nixon had discerned that country could become a strategic counterweight to the Soviet Union; how he secretly flew to China after feigning illness in Pakistan; how he and Premier Zhou Enlai hammered out the diplomatic basis for HOUSE_OVERSIGH

_031948 --- PAGE BREAK --- 9 Article 3. New York Post High stakes in Syria Amir Taheri November 16, 2011 -- As Arab foreign ministers met in Rabat, Morocco, yesterday to discuss Syria, one question was on every mind: Is the country already in a civil war? Some of the facts on the ground suggest so. With

t seat on the United Nations Security Council as a megaphone), but it is a greatly reduced rump of the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031961 --- PAGE BREAK --- 22 Soviet Union. Likewise, while the nationalism of America's principal rival, China, has become more assertive lately, the communist regime's clear priority - indee

state boundaries and they wish to break away and form a separate country, that should always be an option. After all, the world mostly rejoiced when the former Soviet Union and its empire collapsed and some of its constituent republics fragmented into smaller units, notably Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. We should be pre

ast, monarchy has found a way over the decades and centuries to engender a political legitimacy of its own, allowing leaders like King Mohammed VI in Morocco, King Abdullah in Jordan and Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman to grant their subjects a wide berth of individual liberties without fear of being overth