Gazprom increases sales to China and quits on Ukraine
Comment Not only a week ago Russia’s gas export monopoly Gazprom announced to deliver gas to China via the “Power of Siberia” pipeline already in December 2019, about a month…
Comment Not only a week ago Russia’s gas export monopoly Gazprom announced to deliver gas to China via the “Power of Siberia” pipeline already in December 2019, about a month…
Comment “A Russian gas molecule is a Russian gas molecule” With Angela Merkel’s single-sentence statement at the 2019 Munich Security Conference, the German chancellor brought the controversy around the Nord…
Analysis What the new EU Gas Directive really means for Nord Stream 2 On Thursday, February 7th, the French foreign ministry revealed to the public that it would back a…
Comment The news of the week: Russia has the world’s fifth largest gold reserves, surpassing China. While gold piling might be a risk-avoiding strategy against sanction and other international pressures,…
Analysis Nuclear power is in global decline – minus 18 percent over the last 20 years – but the Russian state-owned nuclear entity Rosatom sees this as an opportunity and…
Energy The most controversial energy infrastructure project – Nord Stream 2 – is under hefty fire from across the Atlantic. The construction of the Russian-German gas pipeline across the Baltic…
Comment U.S. President Donald Trump intends to pull out the INF arms-control treaty between the U.S. and Russia that is there since 1987. The decision heralds the beginning of a…
Comment 3 Reasons why Trident Juncture comes to the right time At this moment NATO finishes the military exercise “Trident Juncture” that is the biggest since the end of the…
Politics While the world's attention is on the U.S. mid-term elections, what it means for President Trump, the United States as a whole and even for Moscow and President Putin…