The EU Takes Aim at Russia’s Natural Gas Weak Spot

In mid-May, the European Commission introduced its “REPowerEU” plan, a response to recent developments in regional and global energy markets and, mainly, disruptions caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.…

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Nord Stream 2 Under Sanctions: A Silver Lining for EU Energy Security Policy?

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Late last year, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline seemed to be firmly heading to an eventual finish, but Russian aggression on Europe’s eastern flank brought the…

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Russia Strives for an Oil and Gas Resurgence

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) As the global economy—animated by the arrival of multiple COVID-19 vaccines—hopes for the first signs of recovery, expectations also rise in Russia for an accompanying surge in demand…

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Pipeline “Khanfluence”: Power of Siberia 2 to Go Through Mongolia to China

(China’s Resource Risks) The Power of Siberia pipeline is finally shipping Russian gas to China as of December 2019, after nearly thirty years of discussion. Despite this dilatory timeline, plans for…

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Tkachenko: The role of oil, gas, coal, and shale will begin to decline until it becomes miniscule and insignificant for the economy of the future

(Azernews) Azerbaijan has taken 44th position in the Energy Transition Index (ETI) in the Davos Economic Forum’s report, showing the highest result among the CIS countries, Trend reports. The report takes…

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The 2020 Oil Crash: Is Russia Still An Energy Superpower?

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) This month saw the dramatic outbreak of an oil price war launched by Saudi Arabia that caused the price of oil to plunge from $55 to $25…

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Trump’s “America first” energy policy, contingency and the reconfiguration of the global energy order

(Energy Policy) Abstract: The global energy system is in transition to a new energy order characterized by the emergence of the United States as a net oil exporter, the shale revolution…

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Azerbaijan Through the Prism of BRI: China’s Mounting Interests and Influence in the Region

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) With the diminishing engagement of the United States in the South Caucasus[1] and the weak position of the EU as it deals with Brexit,[2] other world…

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Buyer Beware: Evaluating Russian Exports Under Sanctions and Stagnation

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The use of sanctions to push Russia to change its foreign policy behavior has come under heated debate. Proponents argue that the sanctions policy pursued by the…

Renewables in Kazakhstan and Russia: Promoting “Future Energy” or Entrenching Hydrocarbon Dependency?

(PONARS Policy Memo) Energy and natural resource use has always been a key issue of geopolitics, but as more countries adopt “post-oil” transition policies, environmental sustainability has itself become an important…

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