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Shell vs. Russia: the balance is negative
Robert Skidelsky
Moscow Times
| Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Russia's temporary halt to oil supplies through the pipeline crossing Belarus earlier this month was the latest in a sequence of public relations disasters for the Kremlin. The West's romance with President Vladimir Putin's Russia ended with the Yukos affair and since then Russia has generally gotten bad press, even when it had a good case. The Sakhalin-2 affair is a good example.
Early in December, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had sold Gazprom a majority stake in the project to develop the Sakhalin gas field. In its Dec. 8 edition, The Economist magazine accused the Russian state of using "minor environmental infringements" to ...
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‘Kosovo and Russia’s Place in International Relations
Robert Skidelsky
Moscow Times
| Saturday, July 24, 1999
The Nato action in Kosovo raises three questions for international relations. Was it legal? Was it just? And was it prudent? I will concentrate mainly on the third question, because this is most directly to do with Russia’s place in the international system. But first let me say something about the first two.
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Was it legal?
The short answer is no. The Nato bombing of Yugoslavia was not authorised by the Security Council. It was an act of aggression against a sovereign state and was contrary to international law. For an authoritative statment of existing international law I quote O. Schachter,International Law in Theory and Practice, ...
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