Tag: steve levine (6)
- Aug 17
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Putin's Labyrinth #5: Bush's Consequential Misunderstanding of Putin
Steve LeVine, author of Putin’s Labyrinth, discusses why it matters that George W. Bush got Putin wrong.
Posted Aug 17, 2008
- Aug 17
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Putin's Labyrinth #4: Oil Companies Get Screwed in Russia
Steve LeVine, author of Putin’s Labyrinth, poses the question of why oil companies
- repeatedly done under in Russia -keep returning for more.Posted Aug 17, 2008
- Aug 17
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Putin's Labyrinth #3: Is Putin Complicit in the Murder of Alexander Litvinenko?
Steve LeVine, author of Putin’s Labyrinth, discusses whether Russia’s prime minister had any role in the slaying of KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko, who died after someone slipped polonium-210, a nuclear isotope, into his tea in a London hotel in 2006.
Posted Aug 17, 2008
- Aug 16
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Putin's Labyrinth #1: Reasons to Admire Vladimir Putin
Steve LeVine, author of Putin’s Labyrinth, explains why Putin’s actions are defensible—except, he argues, when it crosses over into murder. And as we see now, into invading other countries.
Posted Aug 16, 2008
- Aug 15
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Steve LeVine on the Geopolitics of Russia, Georgia and Oil
Why has Russia assaulted Georgia, what does it stand to gain, and how do all parties extricate themselves from the mess?
Posted Aug 15, 2008
- Sep 04
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Unocal's Adventure with the Taliban
In the mid-1990s, the California-based oil giant Unocal decided that it was going to do an end run around its competitors on the Caspian Sea and build an oil pipeline straight through the war zone of Afghanistan. That meant cozying up with the Taliban, but that did not throw the scrappy company.
Posted Sep 04, 2007
