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• Russia’s Energy Blackmail Is Backfiring

  Published 13 September 2022 | viewed 12,224 times

  In early September 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin spelled out his intention to punish Europe for resisting Russia’s assault on the world order and supporting…

• Will Beijing Emerge As A Leader In The Russia-India-China Trilateral?

  Published 12 September 2022 | viewed 3,920 times

  At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in late July, which included China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, People’s Republic…

• Can The Organization Of Turkic States Bring Stability To Eurasia?

  Published 10 September 2022 | viewed 2,929 times

  On November 12, 2021, at the eighth (and final) summit of the Turkic Council in Istanbul, Turkey, the group’s name was changed to the Organization…

• Putin’s Energy Weapon Is Backfiring

  Published 08 September 2022 | viewed 18,011 times

  The long-promised Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south has not yet delivered any breakthrough, but it still signifies a critical turning point for the war: Russia…

• The Burgeoning Energy Partnership Between Azerbaijan And The EU

  Published 13 August 2022 | viewed 6,199 times

  On July 18, the European Commission signed the new Memorandum of Understanding on a Strategic Partnership in the Field of Energy with Azerbaijan to increase…

• Will Western Sanctions Against Russia’s Gold Industry Work?

  Published 21 July 2022 | viewed 5,324 times

  On July 14, both Western (Euractiv.com, July 13) and Russian (Rbc.ru, July 14) sources reported that the European Union’s seventh sanctions package will put an…

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

  Published 30 September 2020 | viewed 4,287 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 2,499 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 16,804 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 17,248 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 15,514 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 60,522 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 17,554 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 10,744 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 17,093 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 14,067 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 8,481 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 10,587 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 25,308 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 10,310 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…