MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Jim Yardley & Jo Becker, New York Times, Dec. 30/31, 2014
....if the story of South Stream shows how larger geopolitical concerns can, at least temporarily, limit Mr. Putin’s ability to use his energy riches as a foreign-policy tool, it is also a case study of how he has operated in Europe, and will probably continue to do so...