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The Manas disillusionment

Kyrgyzstan threatens to evict the US from the Manas airbase as Moscow trumps Washington with attractive aid packages, while Bishkek grows increasingly disillusioned with what it views as US usury, John CK Daly writes for ISN Security Watch. Meeting ...

From JOHN C K DALY, ISN,  12 Feb 2009
Related Topics: The Pentagon,  Kurmanbek Bakiyev,  US Department of Defense,  U.S. Congress,  Barack Obama

Analysis: Turkmenistan opens up

Of all the post-Soviet Caspian nations, Western investors since 1991 looked most longingly at Turkmenistan, which was essentially unavailable during the reign of Saparmurat Niyazov. ...

From JOHN C.K. DALY, United Press International,  28 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Saparmurat Niyazov,  United Nations,  The Pentagon

Analysis: EU and Central Asian gas

The European Union, gazing hungrily at Central Asia's vast oil and natural gas deposits, has long sought to weaken Russia's grip over Caspian exports. Now the EU has succeeded in getting its nose under the Turkmen tent, and in Moscow Gazprom Chief ...

From JOHN C.K. DALY, United Press International,  22 Apr 2008
Related Topics: European Union,  Bernard Kouchner,  Dimitrij Rupel,  Benita Ferrero-Waldner,  Malcolm Wicks

Analysis: Russian waterways may open

Completely unnoticed in the Western media, a Russian transport initiative holds promise to revolutionize the maritime carriage of products throughout Eurasia, including the oil and natural gas so hungrily sought by European consumers. ...

From JOHN C.K. DALY, United Press International,  21 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Igor Levitin

Analysis: India eyes Kazakh energy

By JOHN C.K. DALY UPI International Correspondent India may be a relative latecomer in the rush for Caspian hydrocarbon riches, but its booming economy and stable democratic traditions make it an attractive market for Central Asian energy producers, ...

From JOHN C.K. DALY, United Press International,  11 Apr 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U N Security Council,  Murli Deora

Analysis: Hurdles for Siberia oil to Asia

Russia's size has made supplying oil to Asian markets hard, but that's about to change because of a massive pipeline project. ...

From JOHN C.K. DALY, United Press International,  10 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Viktor Khristenko

Analysis: U.S. eyes Ukraine energy routes

By JOHN C.K. DALY UPI International Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 7 (UPI) -- What a difference two decades and a generation make. On Aug. 1, 1991, President George H.W. Bush in Kiev addressed a session of Ukraine's Supreme Soviet. In a speech ...

From JOHN C.K. DALY, United Press International,  7 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Oleksandr Turchynov,  George W. Bush,  Condoleezza Rice,  Yulia Tymoshenko,  William Safire

Analysis: S. Korea eyes C. Asia energy

Record-high energy prices have provoked a global scramble among nations dependent on energy imports to lock in their requirements, in Asia none more so than China and Japan, the world's second- and third-largest oil importers, with daily imports of an ...

From JOHN C.K. DALY, United Press International,  4 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Islam Karimov,  Roh Moo-hyun,  Saparmurat Niyazov

Analysis: Iran extends influence

Since the 1979 Iranian revolution overthrew the shah, it has been a core tenet of U.S. foreign policy to contain the Islamic Republic of Iran, currently enshrined in the 1996 Iran-Libya Sanctions Act legislation. ...

From JOHN C.K. DALY, United Press International,  28 Mar 2008
Related Topics: European Union

Analysis: U.K. firm to audit Turkmen gas

Since the death in December 2005 of Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov, Western energy firms have longingly eyed Turkmenistan's vast natural gas reserves, which even during the Soviet era were estimated at 10 trillion to 14 trillion cubic meters, ...

From JOHN C.K. DALY, United Press International,  28 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Saparmurat Niyazov,  Frank-Walter Steinmeier,  NATO,  United Nations

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