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etween the overt ambitions of President Vladimir Putin's government, state-owned energy giant Gazprom, a

basin. Between the overt ambitions of President Vladimir Putin's government, state-owned energy giant Gazp

December 2, 2013 -- There is no question that Russia is making a play for natural gas in the Levant basin. Between the overt ambitions of President Vladimir Putin's government, state-owned energy giant Gazprom, and private companies, a concerted effort to establish a strategic commercial edge in the developing

and the companies operating in them must vigilantly monitor and, if needed, seek to curb Moscow's ambitions. The Levant basin, which according to the U.S. Geological Survey contains an estimated 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas, is an attractive financial and geopoli

utin Goes to War David Remnick March 1, 2014 -- Vladimir Putin, the Russian President and autocrat, had a

costs, and recent history has shown that when it considers its interests at stake, Russia has been willing to pay the price. Even before President Vladimir V. Putin on Saturday publicly declared his intent to send Russian troops into the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, Mr. Obama and his team were already discuss

ent Russian news site, how the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, in 1979, under the pretext of helping a "fraternal" ally in Kabul; to Parkhomenko, Putin's decision to couch his military action as the "protection" of Russians living in Crimea is an equally transparent pretext. The same goes for the d

much—roughly the amount the United States consumes in a year. But for a country of only 8 million people, it's an energy bonanza. And, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Levant basin in which Israel's fields sit may contain a total of 3.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas—about half the reserves in the United

keeping Kiev weak and unstable. - But there has been a cost: Sanctions are crushing the Russian economy and Crimea has become a giant money pit for Putin to pour rubles into. A complete economic mess. - However, do not exclude possibility of more violence in Ukraine or elsewhere in the region. eee - S

al: A Sino-Russian oil and gas alliance? Russian President Putin inked a $400 billion deal with China in May 2014

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