tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87914676060403946792011-06-07T23:46:57.679-07:00The Caspian Portfolionoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791467606040394679.post-30079252978925212632007-06-06T14:40:00.000-07:002007-06-06T14:49:38.527-07:00Asylbek Kozhakhmetov, the leader of unregistered opposition party Alga, <a href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/06/6E2ABA04-D369-48FC-9A1B-08114C0F15E3.html">was arrested in Almaty today</a> while reading Pushkin's poetry to a small group of assembled on Almaty's Central Square. The gathering apparently tried to draw attention to <a href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/05/7db6fe99-5777-48b8-bc02-cf06d7fe2fca.html">recent arrests of several other protesters</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8791467606040394679-3007925297892521263?l=caspianportfolio.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Caspian Portfolionoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791467606040394679.post-20162128546350654072007-06-03T19:16:00.000-07:002007-06-03T19:41:31.554-07:00Last month turned out to be a setback for the pro-Western formulation of Central Asian energy policy. Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan <a href="http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2007/05/13/afx3715292.html">agreed to maximize gas deliveries to Russia </a>while practically disavowing the proposed trans-Caspian gas pipeline to Europe for lack of Russian consent. Kazakhstan <a href="http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2372160">declined to join</a> the Odessa-Brody-Poland oil pipeline project, unless it is transformed to include Russia. Moreover, Kazakhstan committed additional massive oil volumes for export via Russia, instead of the proposed trans-Caspian oil transport system by tankers, westward into the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Finally, Austria, initiator of the European Union’s Nabucco project for Caspian gas to Europe bypassing Russia, has now <a href="http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2372192">agreed to increase the import and transit of Gazprom’s gas</a>.<br /><br />Eurasia Daily Monitor's Vladimir Socor <a href="http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2372200">itemizes what went wrong</a> with each of the projects hoping that the recent events will prove to be a valuable lesson in formulating a common energy policy in Central Asia.<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2372199">Read more...</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8791467606040394679-2016212854635065407?l=caspianportfolio.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Caspian Portfolionoreply@blogger.com0