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- Another Canal?
Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbaev, recently made president for life, proposed a new canal linking the Caspian with the Black Sea. Currently, goods flow through the Volga-Don shipping canal, which links the Volga to the Don. It runs from near Astrakhan, Russia on the northwestern shore of the Caspian to Rostov on the Sea of Azov. Claiming [...]
- Echoes of colonialism
Last month Moscow snatched coveted energy diversification from Europe’s poor, shivering hands by getting the Kazakh president to promise continued gas exportation through Russian infrastructure. PINR comes to a conclusion I think we can all agree with:
Russia was the big winner in the agreement: Putin demonstrated his ability to outmaneuver Europe, sending another signal of [...]
