MenuApril 01, 2015
The Wall Street Journal
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
Ukraine is facing a huge energy-security challenge. It is dependent on Russia supplying most of its natural gas as well as uranium fuel for its nuclear reactors.
Category Archives: Russia & Eurasia
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.: Unanswered: Putin’s Continuing March on Ukraine
Published on Mar 23, 2015 Recorded at Center for Security Policy’s National Security Group Lunch on Capitol Hill on Thursday, March 19, 2015 Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., Director, Center for Energy, Natural Resources and Geopolitics, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security Topic: Unanswered: Putin’s Continuing March on Ukraine
FOR BETTER RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA, UKRAINE NEEDS INDEPENDENCE
Natural Gas Europe
March 16, 2015
By Marina Zvonareva
The future of Ukraine was discussed at the Ukrainian Energy Forum in Kiev. Despite the fact that the Ukrainian energy market is seasawed due to civil war in the east of the country, experts still put high hopes on reforming of the sector. Natural Gas Europe had the pleasure to talk about the current situation in the second largest European country with Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., Director, Center for Energy, Natural Resources and Geopolitics at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and Principal at International Market Analysis.
Ukraine’s tax hike will strangle the domestic oil and gas sector
Natural Gas Europe
March 10, 2015
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
Ukraine is facing existential challenges, and energy security is one of them. The country is dependent on Russia supplying most of its natural gas as well as uranium fuel for its nuclear reactors. Under these very difficult circumstances, a government with a holistic view of its strategic security and energy goals would logically develop a policy aimed at encouraging increased domestic oil and gas production. Unfortunately, Kyiv is doing the opposite.
Nemtsov’s murder — the tip of Vladimir Putin’s iceberg
Washington Times
March 04, 2015
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
The murder of my good friend Boris Nemtsov is a personal tragedy. When we met for lunch in Tel Aviv a few months ago, I warned him not to return to Moscow. Posters and ads denouncing him as a “national traitor” had been plastered all over the city’s Novy Arbat Avenue and on the Internet.
Dr. Cohen on “This Week in Focus”
Published on Jan 28, 2015 The first episode of This Week in Focus program is dedicated to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as well as role of the international community, in particular, Russia and the US in the settlement of the conflict.
Turkey and Russia: Alliance or Battle Over Energy?
The Globalist
December 09, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently announced the cancellation of the $20 billion South Stream natural gas pipeline. In its place, Russia will build a natural gas hub on the Turkish-Greek border.
A GLIMPSE AT ENERGY POLITICS IN ‘THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH’
The Wall Street Journal
November 28, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
Michael Apted’s 1999 film “The World Is Not Enough” portrays the iconic James Bond and his fight against an international conspiracy involving a Caspian oil pipeline, a mysterious oil heiress, and an anarchic nemesis bent on chaos. Themes that haunt the energy industry appear frequently: oil terrorism, catastrophic damage during energy transport, and environmental protests.
INTERVIEW “АРИЭЛЬ КОЭН: КРЕМЛЬ, НЕФТЬ И ПРОПАГАНДА”
RFE/RL
November 27, 2014
By Михаил Соколов
INTERVIEW “АРИЭЛЬ КОЭН: КРЕМЛЬ, НЕФТЬ И ПРОПАГАНДА”
By Михаил Соколов
November 27, 2014
RFE/RL
Есть ли у США ответ на украинскую агрессию Путина? Говорим с профессором Ариэлем Коэном.