Tag: Russia
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Iran Struggles to Find Alternative Oil Export Routes
Iran faces limited pipeline infrastructure and tanker capacity, making alternative oil export routes through the Caspian Sea difficult and costly.
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Russian Plastics Processors Seek Government Support as Costs Rise
Russian polymer processors seek government support as weakening demand, rising costs and falling equipment investment put pressure on the domestic plastics industry.
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EU Criticises Trump’s Plan to Buy Russian Diesel
European leaders criticise Trump’s Russian diesel deal, warning it could weaken sanctions pressure on Moscow while questioning its impact on fuel prices.
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Trump Pushes Ukraine to Stop Attacking Russian Oil Refineries
Trump pressures Zelensky to stop bombing Russian refineries, hoping to lower fuel prices, but Russia has not accepted the ceasefire.
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Russia and China Expand Their Grip on the Arctic
Russia and China strengthen their Arctic presence as competition intensifies over shipping routes, energy resources, minerals and strategic infrastructure.
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Can Cyprus Play a Role in a US-Russia Oil Partnership?
A possible US-Russia Lukoil deal could create new strategic opportunities for Cyprus and Greece within the Eastern Mediterranean energy landscape.
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EU and Ukraine undermine efforts to normalise oil market
Ukraine says its strikes have affected facilities representing 51% of Russian refining capacity, disrupting operations and increasing pressure on fuel supplies.
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Macron Links EU Competitiveness Loss to Russian Gas
Macron links Europe’s competitiveness decline to the loss of cheap Russian gas and growing competitive pressure from China
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Lukoil Deal Signals a New US Russia Relationship
U.S.–Russia talks reportedly include a multibillion-dollar Lukoil deal, linking oil assets and energy interests to broader Ukraine negotiations.
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EU Energy Security Depends on US and Nigeria
Europe’s winter energy vulnerability exposes how replacing Russian dependence with new suppliers may have diversified risk rather than eliminated dependency.
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Roman Abramovich: The Last Soviet Golden Boy
Roman Abramovich’s journey from Soviet-era entrepreneur to global tycoon traces the rise of Russian capitalism, Chelsea’s transformation, Putin’s Russia and the return of Cold War tensions.
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Europe Helped Destroy Eurasia’s Downstream
Europe helped isolate Russian refining. Now Ukrainian strikes are tightening diesel markets, exposing the strategic cost of dismantling Eurasian energy links.
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Trump vs China: The Oil Price War
Trump’s Iran strategy may squeeze China’s oil lifelines, boost American crude, and push Beijing into an even tighter energy alliance with Russia.
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China Turns to Russian Oil as Middle East Supplies Tighten
China’s growing purchases of Russian oil could raise costs for smaller refiners and affect plastics production.
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Refinery Attacks Cut Russian Gasoline Supply by 30%
Russia’s Fuel Crisis Adds Pressure to Fragile Global Market
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EU Still Needs Russian Oil & Gas
Geopolitical instability is narrowing Europe’s energy options just as winter approaches, exposing the consequences of increasingly fragile supply routes.
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EU Sanctions: Ordinary Russians are Paying the Price
After several years of sanctions, one question deserves to be asked: who is really paying the highest price?
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To Solve the conflict in Ukraine
Europe is drifting without a clear roadmap for peace, locked into a cycle of escalation, rhetoric, and reconstruction promises that never quite arrive. This essay challenges that trajectory and asks a difficult question: what would a realistic path toward de-escalation and long-term stability actually look like for Ukraine, Russia, and Europe itself?
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EU politicians have no brains according to Putin (Video)
Putin is right on this one. Europe has no shortage of politicians, yet we still seem to take every possible wrong turn. From a geopolitical and geostrategic perspective, the consequences have been disastrous for Europe.
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Belgian PM is smartest man in the European room
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever maintains that it is in Europe’s strategic interest to pursue a peace settlement with Russia He advocates for the normalisation of relations with Moscow to ensure the security and affordability of Europe’s energy supply, arguing that such a move is “common sense”. Many officials in the European Commission and…
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Russia – EU Gas supply becomes a game of poker
I monitor all news related to the war in Iran that could affect oil prices.
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How Oil prices caused the collapse of USSR
History of oil in USSR / Russia and how oil precipitated the fall of the USSR. This is a FREE article.
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Vladimir Putin, Person of the Year 2022 (FREE)
The person of the year 2022 is undisputedly Vladimir Putin. This is a FREE article.
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Fashion Brands Linked to Russian Oil
Fashion brands’ hidden links to Russian oil in a time of war
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Smurfit Kappa Exits Russian Market
Smurfit Kappa Group plc (‘SKG’ or ‘the Group’) announces that it has decided to exit the Russian market.
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Ukraine Asks BASF to Stop Business in Russia
Zelensky asked companies like BASF to stop doing business in Russia.
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The Future of Agriculture Video
Russian video on the future of Agriculture and Russian Mars Colonisation Program. I love the fractal cucumber.
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Enzyme Responsible for Wheat Immunity
Russian biologists discover enzymes responsible for the nonspecific immunity of wheat
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New PLA Partnership in Russia (FREE)
Natural Materials and Sulzer sign PLA technology agreement. This is a free article.
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Russia Changes Climate Policy
Putin orders Russian government to try to meet Paris climate goals
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Russia Claims Major Bioplastic Breakthrough
It’s a major discovery if this is true. It could turn the bioplastics paradigm upside down. It’s not possible according to my experience and according to Western standards.
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Russian Polymers Improve Thermal Stability of Bioplastics
A paper was published by Kazan Federal University’s Organic Compounds Lab in Reactive and Functional Polymers. One of the key objectives for contemporary chemistry is to improve thermomechanical properties of polymers, in particular, thermostability of bioplastics.
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Russia Starts Operational Phase of New 10.000 Tons Per Year PHA Plant
MOSCOW, BOLOGNA, SEPTEMBER 9th, 2019 – – The TAIF JSC Group, a player in the traditional petrochemical sector, announced the start of the operational phase of the 10,000-tonnes per year PHA project to be implemented in the Republic of Tatarstan – Russia, based on the license agreement with Bio-on SpA , IP company active in…
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Russia Enters Bioplastics Through Putin and Italian Connections
PRESS RELEASE – Bio-on grants bioplastic technology license to Russian group TAIF for production in Russia.
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