... Islamist ideas. The countries in the other camp, consisting of NATO member states, in particular Turkey, accused Bashar al-Assad of mass killings of civilians and the use of chemical weapons and demanded his complete exclusion from the negotiation process.
Energy, tourism and construction will be the key areas of bilateral cooperation.
In 2014, the crisis in Ukraine was added to the list of unresolved regional conflicts. Different interpretations of the legitimacy of Crimea’s accession to Russia as ...
Diversification at any cost is still perceived as a ‘silver bullet’ for Ukraine’s energy security. The country’s dependence on Gazprom is seen as the key challenge for ensuring the country’s national security. However, inefficiency, mismanagement, the selective application of reform packages, and war in its eastern regions ...
The European Union summit held on March 19-20, 2015, solemnly declared “the need to build the Energy Union.” Has the dream expressed a few years ago by legendary former European Commission President Jacques Delors come true? Have the Europeans managed to shape a new strategy for dealing with large-scale modern challenges in the energy sector?...
... lowering the export tax was an obliged choice in order to avoid that russian companies export through Belarus and Kazakhistan, where duties are cheaper, once the Custom Union is completed.
In 2008, after a similar crisis, some research papers by the Energy Ministry and by the entourage of Igor Sechin (who at the time was serving as Vice-Prime Minister for energy), had showed that the russian output would have slowed and decreased because of the unprofitability of new projects if the tax system had ...
... redirecting the pipeline through Turkey rather than Bulgaria does not strengthen Russia’s position on the European gas market from a strategic point of view. Rather, abandoning the South Stream project should be a good reason to start a new chapter in energy cooperation between Europe and Russia.
The decision on South Stream can easily be viewed as a reaction to Western sanctions. For years, Brussels has been pursuing an active policy against Russian plans to build a southern link of its gas infrastructure ...
The modern world is characterized by change and development, which leads to a growth in global energy consumption, primarily on the part of developed countries and developing countries with rapidly growing economies.
The economic crisis of 2008–2009 brought chaos to the global energy market, which resulted in an even more intense struggle ...
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So far, peer-reviewed academics everywhere and major media have been wont to examine a paralell motive for the redesign of Africa. But China's growing regional role in economic development and in financing extractive industries, including energy, gives them one. SIPRI statistics of arms sales by Russia, and Ukraine, to Sub-Saharan Africa give them another.
China is cooperating on major infrastructure projects with Ethiopa and and is a major developer of the oil industry in the conflict-riddled ...
On October 30-November 2, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov visited Menaggio, Italy, to attend the 2nd Global Table "Limited Resources – Opportunities without Borders" devoted to issues of global resource management.
Co-sponsored by the BMW Foundation and Earth Security Group, the event attracted experts, diplomats and business and civil society representatives from Europe, Asia and Latin America, who focused on optimization of international and national mechanisms for managing...
... negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in contrast to 2006 and 2009, when the Europeans deliberately avoided any kind of participation in such processes. But nowadays they appear to be seriously worried about their own continuous gas supply during winter.
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Yuri Borovsky:
Can Russia–EU–Ukraine Negotiations on Gas
Be Saved?
The deeper they get involved in the details of the Russia-Ukraine dialogue, the clearer they perceive Kiev's attitudes and negotiating ...
... beginning to look like a disaster. Yuri Borovsky, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia at MGIMO University of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, comments on the situation.
What is the current state of energy contacts between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union?
Energy contacts between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union are in crisis and are being conducted on an ad hoc basis. Everything that has been achieved by Moscow and Brussels since 2000 ...
