Sunday, March 23, 2014

How to Lose an Energy War With Putin - POLITICO Magazine








POLITICO Magazine



How to Lose an Energy War With Putin

POLITICO Magazine

Forget Glasnost, Mikhail Gorbachev and the arms race. What really broke the Soviet Union was the collapse of oil prices in the late 1980s. The late economist Yegor Gaidar, one of Boris Yeltsin's prime ministers, wrote in 2007 that the empire's fall ...








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