Articles on the tag «ExxonMobil»
Oil, Gas, and Wars: The Caspian Sea at a Crossroads
Once a forgotten backwater, the Caspian Sea has become the chessboard of great powers and newcomers, with pipelines carving invisible frontlines across water and land. Oil, gas, and ambition collide here, turning calm waters into a potential powder keg.
Chodorkovsky’s misapprehensions
The former Russian entrepreneur Michail Chodorkovsky is jailed in Siberia. Currently, a further trial against him is under way. Is the ex-oligarch a victim of the corrupt Russian judiciary? That is the way he portrays himself. The western media just seem to transcribe his views. The case is, however, more complicated.