The Vostok Report
News Summary

The Vostok Report

The news to 12 May 2013 A parliamentary election in Bulgaria marked by low turnout and widespread apathy has returned a hung parliament.  GERB, the governing party, remain the largest faction but suffered the loss of between ten and twenty seats. Coalition building is expected to be a laborious process. Source: Reuters The World Jewish … Continue reading

The shale gas revolution
Analysis

The shale gas revolution

In the first of a two part series on the major issues surrounding shale gas extraction in Central and Eastern Europe, Andrew Ryan summarises how these new sources will be exploited differently to US reserves. Unconventional gas has been recorded since the nineteenth century. However, our story doesn’t really begin until the 1980’s, when the … Continue reading