Following the Fourth Caspian Summit, the five presidents taking part made press statements. Left to right: President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of Iran Hassan Rouhani, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, photo by
kremlin.ru, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
The possible success of the US-Iranian negotiations on the nuclear program will open the doors to connecting Iranian gas shipments to the “Southern Gas Corridor.” This gas, along with gas from Turkmenistan, would allow the EU to “get Europe off of the Russian gas needle” entirely over just a few years.
08.08.2016, Romania.
Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (Direcția de Investigare a Infracțiunilor de Criminalitate Organizată și Terorism, DIICOT) will check the data on the illicit trade of weapons brought from Ukraine, according to the press service of DIICOT, TASS news agency informed on August 7th.
There is speculation that the entire project of the EEU is actually directed at creating a preferential environment in Europe for American shale gas and for American petroleum corporations, as well as for the construction of American nuclear power plants and for shipments of American nuclear fuel
Even before the Ukrainian Maidan, there was significant disagreement in Europe regarding the role that Russian gas can and ought to play in the EU countries’ energy supply.
3 Car bombs hit the central Saadallah al-Jabiri square in Aleppo, photo by Zyzzzzzy, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
03.08.2016, Aleppo.
“Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki” militants, considered by the U.S. to be among the so-called “moderate opposition”, used chemical gas in Syrian Aleppo on August 2, the Head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides lieutenant-general Sergei Chvarkov stated.
Anti-coup protesters after 15 July 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt in Bağcılar, İstanbul, Turkey, photo by Maurice Flesier, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Why did the project “Turkish stream” disturb so much both the United States and a significant part of the European elites? Why did not only the Sothern Europe with a strong demand for gas but also such countries as Germany, Austria, Denmark worry? After all, the latter ones have their own North European gas, and functioning, as well as fully reliable, operating pipelines for gas supplies from Russia, namely ‘Yamal-Europe’ and ‘Nord Stream’.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, photo by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russian Federation, licensed under CC BY 4.0
25.07.2016, Syria.
22.07.2016, Syria.
Russian private Nikita Shevchenko died in Syrian Aleppo province, Russian Defense Ministry press-service and information administration reports.
Skyline of Levent and European side of Istanbul at night in winter across the Bosphorus by Hakan Sarıtaş - the tall folks, licensed under CC BY 2.0
From an economic point of view, the EU has lost much as a result of Russia’s abandonment of “South stream”
How should the Gulf Cooperation Council countries react to the attacks of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (Organization banned in Russia) supported by Qatar at the “Arab Gas Pipeline” facilities when these attacks interrupt the export of gas to Jordan? They can consider these terrorist acts only as an obvious undermining of the “Arab solidarity” by Qatar. After all, such attacks did not only create problems for the Arab consumers of the gas, but also deprived Egypt of substantial export revenues.
Due to the “world oil and gas price war” that began in September 2014, both Qatar and its Arab neighbors found themselves in a need of Arabian political unity.
Major current events of the economic war in the world and in Russia are regularly discussed in our lectures in the television program “Meaning of the Game”. The readers of our newspaper can view these lectures online (unfortunately, as of now only available in Russian – Editor).
Here I will continue the article I started earlier – “Escalation of the Global Gas War.”
Let me remind you that in the first and second parts of this article we discussed the main stages and directions of the post-Soviet economic wars against Russia in the “gas front”.
23.05.2016, Syria.
This morning terrorists attacked coastal Syrian cities of Jableh and Tartus. As of now, at least 78 people were killed in the attacks, dozens more were injured.
Gazprom headquarters in Moscow
Archive photo, Fede Ranghino CC 2.0
Aftermath of terrorist attack in Jableh. Still from Ivan Sidorenko YouTube channel video