using energy as a weapon, the new russia seeks to reconstruct its empire. the russian government has declared an economic model since 2001 entitled rationalization which has been implemented by the putin's government. state ownership especially concerns the oil industry which was expanded by confiscating the yukas company's properties and gazprom's procurement of the apple oil co...

The article summarizes the results of plenary session international network conference “Engineering education in context digitalization and transition to a green economy – SYNERGY-2022” held at Nizhnekamsk Chemical Technology Institute Kazan National Research Technological University from October 13 14, 2022. forum was devoted training engineers conditions economy. It brought together represent...

Russia recently invited the Palestinian organization Hamas to Moscow and, at the same time, is involved in negotiating with Iran regarding its nuclear program. These two recent developments, tied with Russia's recent use of its energy weapon Gazprom against Ukraine, makes clear that Russia is returning to the international arena. In light of these developments, does Russia's return as a major p...

Russia, with total production of 581 bcm (billion of cubic meters), is the world’s leading producer of gas. Despite that, however, the problems currently faced by its gas industry are many and significant. On one hand, questions are still being asked on the capacity of Gazprom, the national company, to face up to the considerable financial needs to renew the major gas deposits developed under t...

This paper presents a game-theoretic analysis of multimarket competition with capacity investments, applied to international gas markets. It identifies a strategic advantage of «focused» pipeline gas producers (e.g., Gazprom) over «diversified» multimarket exporters of liquefied natural gas (e.g., Qatar). Based on this, the paper examines the spillover impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident ...

Many commentators have blamed Gazprom, Europe’s largest gas supplier, for contributing to the 2021–2 European natural price crisis through market manipulation and withholding necessary supply volumes from market. Is there any substance such claims? Gazprom really involved in manipulating prompting record-breaking surge prices? The current article analyses official figures on Gazprom’s productio...