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• Debt, Zombies, And Geopolitics: China’s Belt And Road Initiative During COVID

  Published 30 September 2020 | viewed 3,674 times

  Introduction The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been a focal issue for understanding the foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Some…

• Could The GNA Ever Successfully Control Libya’s Oil?

  Published 19 August 2020 | viewed 1,952 times

  Introduction The success of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) in forcing the withdrawal of the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) from northwestern Libya…

• Is U.S.-Russian Space Cooperation Coming To An End?

  Published 23 June 2020 | viewed 16,474 times

  After nine years of the United States relying entirely on Russian Soyuz rockets to deliver astronauts into orbit, this dependency finally ended on May 30,…

• Russia’s Oil Giants Butt Heads Over Pipeline Fees

  Published 11 June 2020 | viewed 16,945 times

  Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft and the state-owned oil pipeline monopoly Transneft added another page to their long-running confrontation when Rosneft’s CEO, Igor Sechin, complained…

• Belarus Nears Completion Of Major Nuclear Project

  Published 10 June 2020 | viewed 15,219 times

  On May 25, the Astravets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), in Belarus, finished receiving nuclear fuel for the initial load of its first reactor (Belta, May…

• Russia’s Self-Inflicted Oil Crisis

  Published 26 March 2020 | viewed 59,838 times

  The timing could not have been worse for Russia to provoke a spat with Saudi Arabia over oil production quotas in early March. Moscow’s decision…

• Russia Doubles Down On Its Arctic Ambitions

  Published 15 February 2020 | viewed 17,276 times

  On January 30, the Russian government approved a number of acts concerned with rendering new economic benefits and subsidies to businesses or investors willing to…

• Russia Leverages Coal In Regional Shadow War

  Published 06 November 2019 | viewed 10,492 times

  The press service of the Ministry of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan reported, on October 25, that Russia’s current ban on the transit of some…

• Is Trump Losing The Silent War For Latin America?

  Published 27 October 2019 | viewed 16,719 times

  It has only recently become clear to analysts in the United States that Russia is playing a big role in Latin America to destabilize Washington’s…

• Why Russia Won’t Abandon OPEC+ Just Yet

  Published 24 October 2019 | viewed 13,636 times

  Russian President Vladimir Putin pried loose a couple of energy investment deals from Saudi Arabia on his latest visit to the region, on October 14…

• Russia's Next Nuclear Power Play Is Underway

  Published 23 October 2019 | viewed 8,208 times

  On October 3, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev paid an official visit to Russia to attend the 16th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, in…

• Central Asia’s Biggest Energy Challenge

  Published 17 March 2019 | viewed 10,482 times

  A major challenge for Central Asia’s oil and natural gas industry has always been how to transport petroleum products from the landlocked region to global markets.…

• Italy Turns Its Back On Russian Gas

  Published 16 March 2019 | viewed 24,606 times

  New natural gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean might be a boon for the European Union’s efforts to move away from dependence on Russian energy…

• Georgia, Gazprom To Renegotiate Gas Transit Deal

  Published 02 February 2019 | viewed 10,196 times

  The two-year contract between the government of Georgia and the Russian energy giant Gazprom on natural gas transit from Russia to Armenia expired on December…

• Russia-Ukraine Enter Gas Transit Talks

  Published 26 January 2019 | viewed 10,815 times

  On January 21, in Brussels, Russia and Ukraine held ministerial-level talks on the transit of Russian natural gas to Europe via Ukraine (TASS, January 22,…

• Are Claims Of Peak Oil Production In Russia Overblown?

  Published 21 October 2018 | viewed 16,283 times

  Russian authorities have announced that domestic oil production hit 11.36 million barrels per day (bpd), on average, in September (Vedomosti, October 2). This marks a…

• Will Bulgaria Become Europe’s Next Gas Hub?

  Published 14 July 2018 | viewed 20,974 times

  German support for Russia’s plans to double the capacity of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea has, in turn, encouraged Bulgaria’s…

• Germany Moves Forward With Controversial Nord Stream Two

  Published 12 May 2018 | viewed 16,745 times

  Vladimir Putin started his fourth term as Russia’s president by promising ambitious new social programs (Kremlin.ru, May 7). He may be able to deliver on…

• Georgia To Purchase Natural Gas Only From Azerbaijan

  Published 17 February 2018 | viewed 14,376 times

  In January, the Georgian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development approved its annual energy assessment (balance), which shows that Georgia will not purchase any natural…

• Ukraine Looks To Boost Domestic Nuclear Capacity

  Published 10 February 2018 | viewed 10,014 times

  Westinghouse will extend nuclear fuel deliveries to seven of Ukraine’s fifteen nuclear power units to 2021–2025, in line with a contract signed between this firm…