Cliff Kupchan

Rosneft Tops Exxon With 5% of World Oil in Soviet-Era Wells

OAO Rosneft’s $55 billion takeover of TNK-BP creates an empire stretching from Russia’s Far East to Venezuela that pumps almost 5 percent of the world’s crude.

Russia Adopts Texas Drilling to Revive Soviet Oil Fields

Fracking isn’t just for shale. In Russia, producers are importing techniques from the U.S. to squeeze billions of dollars of extra oil from Soviet-era fields.

IAEA to Press Iranians on Site Visits Before Iraq Meeting

United Nations inspectors met with Iranian officials to negotiate wider access to atomic facilities as diplomats seek to avert possible military strikes on sites suspected of housing work on a nuclear weapon.

Iran’s Ahmadinejad Is Weakened, Increasingly Isolated as He Addresses UN

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a record of hurling insults at Israel when he addresses world leaders at the UN General Assembly. The Jewish state has reason to expect more of the same today.

Iran Says It's Sending Two Ships to Suez; Egypt Says No Permission Granted

Iran is arranging with Egyptian officials to have two of its warships use the Suez Canal, Iranian state-run Press TV said. The Suez Canal Authority said after today’s report that no Iranian naval vessels had been granted permission to sail through the waterway.

Medvedev Gets `Last Chance' to Escape Putin's Growing Shadow

President Dmitry Medvedev gets an opportunity today to lay out his vision for remaking Russia, after a summer in which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dominated TV screens amid preparations for the 2012 presidential election.

Arab Spring Uprisings Lose Momentum as ‘Status Quo’ Fights Back

Bombs and tear gas are threatening to smother the “Arab Spring” that toppled the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia and promised to spread democracy in the Middle East.

U.S., British Tomahawk Missiles ‘First Phase’ Opened Airspace Over Libya

The U.S. and allied forces began their assault on Libya by hitting the North African nation’s air-defense systems with cruise missiles, followed by attacks from bombers and fighter jets, to reduce the risks for subsequent overflights by coalition aircraft.

Rosneft to Replace Gazprom as Energy Driver on TNK Deal

OAO Rosneft’s proposed acquisition of TNK-BP will accelerate the state oil company’s eclipse of OAO Gazprom as the dominant force in Russia’s energy industry.

Ahmadinejad Stature Fades as Pressure Grows on Iran Atomic Work

When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first came to the United Nations General Assembly three years ago, he declared the question of Iran’s nuclear program “closed.”

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North Korea Test-Fires 3 Missiles as U.S. Sees Further Isolation

Commuter Train Wreck Injures Dozens, Curbs Amtrak Service

Republicans Unsatisfied by IRS Answers Press for More

Tesla’s Musk Channels Iacocca With Early U.S. Repayment

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