RUSSIA PUSHING ENERGY RELATIONS TO BREAKING POINT WITH NEIGHBOURING STATES
January 1st, 2008
BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA has engaged in a series of political and economic spats with its former Soviet satellites and the European Union (EU) in the first years of the 21st century. And while stand-offs over Belarus sugar and Moldovan wine might raise eyebrows in the West, disputes over the vast energy resources in Russia and its Central Asian neighbours carry an altogether darker shade, mainly because Russia supplies 25% of the EU's oil and 25% of its gas.
Russia has aggressively renegotiated oil contracts with most of its former satellites to the west, including ...
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