أنابيب الغاز الطبيعي : طريق روسيا إلى المياه الدافئة الأوراسية

Abstract EN

This article is an attempt to figure out how Russia has used the energy factor in particular natural gas to extend its influence in Eurasia area notably when Vladimir Putin came to the power in 2000.

The natural gas pipelines started from the Russian land toward Europe and Asian territories as well is an essential geopolitical tool in Russian foreign policy to raise the dependency level of Europe to the Russian natural gas.

Nevertheless, these gas pipelines are sees as a key to reach the warm waters that Russia had all the time sought to penetrate into far geographic regions and creating important access that overlooks on European, Asian and African regions.

Most of the water bodies which are in front of Russian Federation are belonging to the cold and frozen waters which are isolated from lands, geopolitically important for a state seeking over the time to impose its presence both in the region and the world.