In January 1992, Moscow told Estonia that henceforth, the Baltic nation would have to pay Russia world prices for oil and gas and do so in hard currency. Tallinn did not have the hard currency to do so; and if it had to pay world prices,...
What happened? Germany has greenlighted the construction of the Russian-controlled natural gas pipeline known as Nord Stream 2. Read more → Having dismissed Ukrainian and Polish objections to Nord Stream 2, German authorities...
About the author Ivan Diyak is a corresponding member of the Academy of Mining Sciences, an acting member of the Oil and Gas Academy of Ukraine, an honored Professor Emeritus of the Ivano-Frankivsk Mechanical University of Oil and Gas....
The Stockholm arbitral awards The much-awaited arbitral awards from the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (hereafter, the Arbitration Institute) in the disputes between Naftogaz and Gazprom, which the latter had...
Discussions between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have led to clear success. The position of Berlin towards the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has become more advantageous for Ukraine. In particular,...
Vadym Glamazdin: “I would like to refocus our discussion around Nordstream2 from its perception as a geopolitical project to its understanding as part of cooperation with the Russian Federation. A lot has been said about the threats...
Last week, Russia’s state-controlled NTV invited an American expert to comment on how the US had reacted to President Putin’s annual address. The American pundit explained that the US had been shocked by the powerful Russian...
On 31 May, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has granted a full victory to the Ukrainian oil and gas company Naftogaz in the case of the “take or pay” clause forced on Ukraine under the gas supply contract...
Many in the West have “the wrong idea about how the Russian manipulation machine works,” Igor Eidman says, failing to understand that Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war is based on the model of a real military campaign and that if his...
January 2006 and 2009 made headlines thanks to two gas wars between Russia and Ukraine. Now we know that they were part of Russia’s use of non-military instruments in new generation wars, which went basically unnoticed by the outside...
In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women. And though Ukraine is hardly known as a...
