Last Sunday I read couple blogs speculating on a stock market moves as a result of Lehman Brother’s downfall. Most agreed that we would see couple hundred points drop, or maybe even automatic trading halts. On Monday, the stock market shed 500 points and yet avoided any trading halts. Today we see a [...]

Just yesterday I mentioned that following Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filings, some rushed to auction domain names associated with this firm. Yesterday it was www.falloflehman.com which was marketed as a potential web site for someone interested in writing a book about Lehman Brothers. Today it is a bundle with domain names focused on a merger [...]

I never thought that some day I will witness Bear Stearns being bought for $10 per share, Merrill Lynch acquired by the Bank of America, and lehman Brothers shopped on Ebay. The price is $99,999,999.00 with an option of no payments until 2009 with Ebay Master Card. Meanwhile, some “entrepreneurs” are already attempting to [...]

US Charge d’Affaires Jonathan Moore said to the Charter’97 press center that there’s no formal decision on shutting the embassy in Minsk.
According to the diplomat, Washington is continuing to consider the situation about the American diplomats in Belarus.
The Associated Press reported 1 May the US Department of State had ordered Belarus to close its embassy [...]

Hello world. I apologize for not posting any articles in a while. And so I thought that it would be good to re-start posting with some interesting material on global energy, security and geopolitics that greatly influence many important decisions in our rather turbulent times. Not long ago, on April 15, 2008, the Center for [...]

The European Parliament has called upon the authorities of Belarus to start democratic reform in the country. It has been said in a declaration adopted on April 17 summing up the results of the conference in the European parliament in Brussels (Belgium), where the post-Chernobyl situation in Belarus was discussed.
The European Parliament has called upon [...]

So far everything goes according to the plan, albeit both sides proceed with caution and leave doors somewhat open for alternative decisions. NATO discussed and denied Georgia and Ukraine as potential members of the alliance at this point of time. However, these countries were promised eventual admission and some even say that we can see [...]

Is he loosing it, is he doing it on purpose or is it just a rumor stretched by media? Allegedly, Mr.Putin hinted that Ukraine might stop existing in its current form if NATO admits this country into the Alliance. He also said that Russia might recognize Abkhazia and South Osetiya and thus create a buffer [...]

An interesting comments made by Andrei Sannikov,a member of the organising committee of the civil campaign “European Belarus”, appeared on the web(Charter97.org). And I think they are worth of your time as he goes over some important issues facing Belarus and its political direction.
“Alyaksandr Lukashenka is consciously set to break relations with the US, after [...]

Charter97.org says that Belarusian Interfax demonstrates unheard-of sense of humour on 1 April. The agency informs, the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice bought an elite apartment in the Belarusian capital. A 116-square-meter apartment in the historical center of Minsk was bought by the U.S. Secretary of State on 1 April.
According to realtors, Interfax running, [...]