Category: Russia

Russia has recorded 753,000 excess deaths during the coronavirus pandemic, one of the highest tolls in the world, according to analysis of government data by the Financial Times that highlights Continue Reading

Europe’s winter of discontent is just getting started as energy prices continue to rise. Though Putin has insisted that Russia is not using energy as a political weapon, many EU Continue Reading

Russia saw its crude oil and condensate production rise in October for a second consecutive month as it increased output under the OPEC+ agreement to ease the collective production cuts. Continue Reading

Asia and Europe are bracing for a particularly cold winter, and it could stretch already-short supplies of key fossil fuels even thinner. Russia, however, is poised to win big from Continue Reading

Russian oil and gas condensate output rose to 10.84 million barrels per day (bpd) last month from 10.72 million bpd in September, according to Reuters calculations based on an Interfax Continue Reading

Just a few major pipelines stand between hundreds of millions of people in the European Union and total energy collapse. This vast and—for now, at least—stubbornly indispensable infrastructure carries a Continue Reading

Cafes have now shut for 11 days in Moscow Shops, restaurants and schools have shut in Moscow in a partial lockdown, as Russia battles record Covid deaths and infections. Only Continue Reading

President Vladimir Putin ordered Gazprom PJSC to start refilling its European gas-storage facilities next month, sending prices lower as long-awaited additional Russian supplies could soon be on the way. The Continue Reading

Russia’s Gazprom has emptied its gas storage facilities in western Europe to unusually low levels ahead of the winter, adding to fears that Moscow has exacerbated a shortage of supplies Continue Reading