3. Well, Russia's recent actions, as outlined in the article, were a big clue.
I take issue with the article's claim that the recent Russia-Georgia dust-up was not about energy.
Apparently, the authors were completely unaware that Georgia is a main transit way for Caspian oil and gas on its way to Georgian ports on the Black Sea and on its way to the Turkish port of Ceyhan via the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline.
Ethnic tensions, idiotic Georgian leadership and Russian imperial ambitions of course played a part.
However, this document makes it clear that the Russians are preoccupied with attaining their former stature through control of liquid energy and with keeping their bogeyman of "disorder" at bay.
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