Russia.

What goes on in Poland on the 25th of January.

The shale revolution caused a breakthrough in oil trade across the globe, making the United States one of the world’s most important oil exporters. In Russia this term has a negative connotation, but even that sate will have to go through a transformation if it wants to be successful on the hydrocarbon extraction and trade […]

Russia, Bulgaria and Serbia demonstrated how to bypass the EU law to build gas pipelines, which de facto strengthen Russia’s monopolistic grip on Southeastern Europe. The European leg of the Turkish Stream was called the Balkan Stream to mask the endeavor’s true origins. This is the second incarnation of the South Stream gas pipeline, which […]

What goes in Poland on 14th of January.

Stalin proposed to use energy resources in order to solve geopolitical problems, leveling the needs of the state, immediately after the end of World War II – writes Maksym Bielawski, Ph.D., leading expert of Razumkov Сenter.

What goes on in Poland on the 13th of January.

The challenge of installing a gas grid across Russia is becoming increasingly political each year and impacts the image of both federal and regional authorities among the Russian society. The current discontent as well as the dropping trust in the government and the president made this issue a priority for the coming years. However, the […]

Prospects of Nord Stream 2 are heavily complicated. Nevertheless, the NDAA 2021 provides an window of opportunity if not to completely l bypass  sanctions, at least to greatly mitigate their effects – writes Madalina Vicari from University of Liege for BiznesAlert.com.

During his first year in office, Joe Biden will push for an energy transition, but if there is no political consensus on the matter, the administration will take the middle road, which roughly means maintaining the status quo – Marcin Zaborowski, PhD, editor in chief of Res Publica Nowa, says in an interview with BiznesAlert.pl. […]

Russians barely managed to put together a fleet that installed a little over 2.6 km of Nord Stream 2 in the shallow waters of the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Now the project is facing a more difficult test in the deeper waters of the German and Danish EEZs . It looks like the investors […]