World|opinion & analysis|August 8, 2008 / 10:25 AM
Radio Free Europe: Toward new paradigm for post-Soviet petrostates

AKIPRESS.COM - By Daniel Kimmage Economies and geopolitical clout growing faster than a speeding bullet! Presidents more powerful than a locomotive! Able to ignore demands for political reform at a single bound! Look! On the shores of the Caspian! Nations in transition? Developing countries? No! It's the post-Soviet petrostates!With oil and gas prices at stratospheric highs, these are the new supermen of the international arena, nimbly casting off the drab garb of "developing," "transiting," and "emerging" nations to perform astounding feats of outsize influence...

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