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<title><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov: Russia Worries About the Price of Oil, Not a Nuclear Iran]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday in Moscow, the remaining illusions the Obama administration held for cooperation with Russia on the Iranian nuclear program were thrown in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's face. Stronger sanctions against Iran would be &quot;counterproductive,&quot; said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, just days after President Dmitry Medvedev said sanctions were likely inevitable.
Nothing matters more to Mr. Putin and his oligarchs than the price of oil. Even with oil at $70 a barrel, Russia's economy is in bad straits. Tension in the Middle East, even an outbreak of war, would push energy prices higher. A nuclear-armed Iran would, of course, be harmful to Russian national security, but prolonging the crisis is beneficial to the interests of the ruling elite: making money and staying in power.
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<title><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov: Russia Worries About the Price of Oil, Not a Nuclear Iran]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday in Moscow, the remaining illusions the Obama administration held for cooperation with Russia on the Iranian nuclear program were thrown in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's face. Stronger sanctions against Iran would be &quot;counterproductive,&quot; said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, just days after President Dmitry Medvedev said sanctions were likely inevitable.
Nothing matters more to Mr. Putin and his oligarchs than the price of oil. Even with oil at $70 a barrel, Russia's economy is in bad straits. Tension in the Middle East, even an outbreak of war, would push energy prices higher. A nuclear-armed Iran would, of course, be harmful to Russian national security, but prolonging the crisis is beneficial to the interests of the ruling elite: making money and staying in power.
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<title><![CDATA[When East Beats West]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:27:05 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[is on the 'protected' list. The law not only further strengthens the role of the security services in Russian business, but also forces prospective foreign investors to play the kind of game that so baffled Churchill: trying to analyse and predict the]]></description>
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