About
In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Blogroll
- Blogroll (1)
- Collapse & Apocalypse (14)
- Da Russophile (Best Russia Sites) (29)
- A Good Treaty
- Austere Insomniac
- Demoscope Journal (Ru.)
- Expert Russia Discussion Group
- Johnson's Russia List
- Kremlin Stooge
- Levada Polls (Ru.)
- Mark Adomanis
- poemless, the blog
- Power Vertical
- Robert Amsterdam
- Rosstat (Ru.)
- Russia Monitor
- Russia Watchers
- Russia Watchers
- Russia: Other Points of View
- Sean's Russia Blog
- Siberian Light
- Streetwise Professor
- Sublime Oblivion @ InoSMI
- Truth and Beauty
- Economics (25)
- Energy & Environment (18)
- Friends of AK (12)
- humor (4)
- News & Analysis (11)
- russia (24)
- Russia Blogs (67)
- 3000 Versts of Loneliness
- A Good Treaty
- GUS News (De.)
- Ivanov Report
- Johnson's Russia List
- Kremlin Stooge
- Mark Adomanis
- Mat Rodina
- Mike Averko
- Misha's Russia Blog
- Moscow Tory
- Nicolai Petro
- Peter Lavelle
- poemless, the blog
- Power Vertical
- Robert Amsterdam
- RUSOURCE
- Russia Blog
- Russia Economy Watch
- Russia in the Media
- Russia Monitor
- Russia Watchers
- Russia Watchers
- Russia's Nuclear Forces
- Russia: Other Points of View
- Russian Victories
- Sean's Russia Blog
- Siberian Light
- Sublime Oblivion (Ru.)
- Sublime Oblivion @ InoSMI
- Truth and Beauty
- Vilhelm Konnander
- Stats (21)
- Sublime Links (51)
- A Fistful of Euros
- A Good Treaty
- Archdruid Report
- Austere Insomniac
- China Brief
- Climate Progress
- Cost of Energy
- Danger Room (Wired)
- Demoscope Journal (Ru.)
- Eurasia Daily Monitor
- eXiled online
- Expert Russia Discussion Group
- Fabius Maximus
- Kurzweil AI
- Levada Polls (Ru.)
- Mark Adomanis
- Oil Drum
- poemless, the blog
- Power Vertical
- Real Clear World
- Robert Amsterdam
- Rosstat (Ru.)
- Russia: Other Points of View
- Scholar's Stage
- Sean's Russia Blog
- Siberian Light
- Strategy Page
- STRATFOR
- Streetwise Professor
- Truth and Beauty
- Sublime Oblivion Links (32)
- There Will Be War! (8)
- Towards Singularity (11)
- Blogroll (1)
Tag Archives: energy
Interview with Craig Willy (Letters from Europe)
After a year long hiatus from interviewing Russia watchers, I decided it was time to get back in the game. As it happens, my attention first fell on a Europe blogger – and not just any incisive, counter-intuitive scribbler whose intellect and … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Watching the Russia Watchers
Tagged blogging, craig willy, demography, economy, energy, eu, europe, france, futurism, gas, guest, interview, islam, islamophobia, marxism, national comparisons, politics, russia, uk, usa
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Top 10 Most Powerful Countries In 2011
The Chinese have an interesting concept that quantifies Great Power status, called Comprehensive National Power (CNP). This index is produced by processing the economic, military and cultural factors that make countries powerful: GDP, technological development, number of tanks and ICBM’s, as … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged brazil, china, economy, education, energy, france, geopolitics, germany, global warming, globalization, hi-tech, india, international relations, japan, military, russia, turkey, uk, usa
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Translation: Foundations Of Russia’s Arctic Policy
At my Arctic Progress blog I translated the official document The Foundations Of The Russian Federation’s State Policy In The Arctic Until 2020 And Beyond (Основы государственной политики Российской Федерации в Арктике на период до 2020 года и дальнейшую перспективу), approved … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic Visions, Da Russophile, Translations
Tagged arctic, boring, energy, geopolitics, law, military, politics, resources, russia, translation
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New Project: Arctic Progress
The Arctic is one of the most ignored regions in commentary about global trends. This is unsurprising. The vastnesses of Hyperborea, a semi-mythical world of curdled seas, boreal lights and eternal sunshine, have always been “outside” history. But the fast pace of … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic Visions, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged arctic, blogging, climate change, economy, energy, geopolitics, global warming, me, russia, security
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My Interview on Middle East Geopolitics, Afghanistan and Iran & the Bomb with Marat Kunaev
I was recently interviewed on Middle East geopolitics and the Iran Question by Marat Kunaev, a blogger and translator at InoForum. I would like to thank him for the opportunity to express my views on the topic and providing a possible … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged afghanistan, armenia, azerbaijan, caucasus, china, energy, futurism, geopolitics, georgia, india, international relations, interview, iran, islam, islamophobia, israel, me, middle east, military, peak water, rise of the rest, russia, usa, war, water, western hypocrisy
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Another View of the US Economy: Observations on Exergy, GDP & Median Incomes
The standard view of the American economy is one of exponential growth: even if interrupted by a recession once a decade and a Depression once every two generations (the 1890′s, the 1930′s, the 2010′s?), the engines of industry would always … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, collapse, culture, demography, economy, energy, history, morale, politics, rant, thermoeconomics, usa, vision
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Everyone is Still Underestimating China
There’s been lots of fanfare over China’s GDP overtaking Japan’s in Q2 2010 (coming hard on the heels of a big ruckus over its DF-21 “carrier killing” ballistic missile and rising tensions with the US over North Korea and the … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged china, collapse, economy, energy, finance, geopolitics, history, peak oil, resource depletion, russia, usa, vision
25 Comments
Russia’s Roads to Nowhere, or: build Railways instead!
Though it’s not quite true that Russia has “no roads, only directions”, the old saying isn’t far off the mark. The World Bank’s recent report on Russia’s economy notes that the Eurasian giant’s road network is primitive and crumbling, coming … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged economy, energy, futurism, infrastructure, liberasty, peak oil, russia, sustainability, usa
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The Century without an Indian Summer
How will the global South fare in our likely future of energy shortages, climate change and resource nationalism (and wars)? India has China’s population mass, but lacks its industrial dynamism and human capital. Africa has Russia’s energy and mineral wealth, but … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, bangladesh, china, climate change, collapse, culture, economy, education, energy, environment, futurism, geopolitics, global warming, imperialism, india, internat, military, pakistan, peak water, resource depletion, ssr, vision, water
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Why Russia is cemented to the other BRICs
In the wake of the economic crisis in which Russia’s GDP fell by a stunning 7.9% in 2009, its status as a BRIC economy – with its connotations of promise and progress – was brought into question. After all, isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged brazil, china, corruption, economy, education, energy, geopolitics, germany, growth, india, international relations, rise of the rest, russia, russophobes, vision, western media
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