Politics are not the only field that has been turbulent towards the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020. Around that same period of time a whole heap of events occurred in an industry known as the international gas trade. As a result of repeated consultations, Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission were able to work out a compromise, an...
The geoenergetics of oil against the backdrop of COVID-19
In order to get an objective evaluation of what exactly is happening on the world oil market, what caused a drastic decrease in the prices and what prospects could be expected, it is not only necessary to look at all the events involved in their chronological order but to do so with quite a touch of cynicism. It is obvious...
A peaceful atom in the Arctic ice
On December 3, 2019, Russia celebrated the 60th anniversary of its nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet. On this day in 1959, the Leningrad Admiralty shipyard and the Gorky machine-building plant no.92, the main executioners, delivered Lenin, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker to its commissioner, the Ministry of the Navy. Judging by the level of technology involved, the concentration of effort put into its...