• Steve LeVine covers foreign affairs for Business Week. He previously was correspondent for Central Asia and the Caucasus for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times for 11 years. His first book, The Oil and the Glory, a history of the former Soviet Union through the lens of oil, was published in October 2007. Putin’s Labyrinth, his new book, profiles Russia through the lives and deaths of six Russians. The updated paperback was released in April 2009.



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    A Blog on Russia, Energy, the Caspian and
    Beyond

    Wednesday, November 21, 2007

    Interesting Stories

    When the U.S. economy begins its expected downturn late next year, oil prices will fall a bit with it. Until then, reports my former Wall Street Journal colleague Russell Gold in tomorrow's paper, we will remain in the neighborhood of current record-breaking prices. Gold wrote the story as oil closed over $98 a barrel for the first time, and analysts surveyed by the Journal saw nothing that will soon pop the bubble.

    The Economist argues in its current edition that, if Vladimir Putin is seeking his country’s best interests, it’s not always clear what they are.

    Blogger Jeff “Maximos” Martin has an interesting if ultimately flawed tirade against U.S. involvement in the Caspian Sea region.

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