{"id":418,"date":"2009-06-09T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T10:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2010-08-18T06:38:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T02:38:31","slug":"russia-does-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/418\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Does Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upstreamonline.com\/live\/article180269.ece\" target=\"_blank\">This amused<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sechin, who is considered one of Russia&#8217;s most powerful officials, called for oil markets to find a way to insulate themselves from the decline of the US dollar, which has led to a rise in the nominal US dollar price for oil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to protect the oil market from risks on the currencies market,&#8221; Sechin said. &#8220;As far as a peg to one currency is concerned there are no simple answers that could replace the existing system tomorrow or a day after tomorrow,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But without work in this direction oil markets could become hostage of decisions of the government of one country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Russian complaining that energy markets\u00a0could be\u00a0held hostage to the government of one country?!!\u00a0\u00a0I suspect\u00a0his real complaint is not that a government might hold an energy market hostage,\u00a0but that it is not his own government doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This amused: Sechin, who is considered one of Russia&#8217;s most powerful officials, called for oil markets to find a way to insulate themselves from the decline of the US dollar, which has led to a rise in the nominal US &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/418\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}