Oil Resursy12-08-2008 Will the oil after the war? Until recently, Western countries regarded Georgia as a convenient platform for the construction of new ways of transportation of hydrocarbons, bypassing Russia. At the same fate was calculated and other former Soviet republics. However, the Georgian aggression can cross light "transit" the future for the region. On Tuesday, Moscow has officially announced the completion of a peacekeeping mission to protect South Ossetia from Georgian aggression. Now it's Georgia. Right now, Georgia will choose a role which she will play in the global arena in the coming years. Georgia's geographic location made it a convenient site for the transit of hydrocarbons from the fields of the Caucasus, the Caspian region, Turkey and the Middle East to Europe. The role of "transit" profitable and honorable. However, when planning transportation routes (in particular, expensive pipelines) investors first consider the political stability and reliability of transit states. What threatens to unreliable partners, the whole world could see the example of Russia and Ukraine, where the latter has used its status as a transit instrument of blackmail. At the same Georgia, which has consistently advocated anti-Russian positions were assigned to high expectations. In fact, she had become the center of the oil routes, built to bypass Russia.
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