Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal
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Article
Abstract
Russia’s stranglehold on oil and gas as a resource, and use of energy as a weapon is a long standing humanitarian crisis as shown by the cut off of oil exports to former Soviet Republics, in efforts to gain political and economic dependence, resulting in, as one example shows, electricity and heat suspensions of innocent citizens homes. Other concerted efforts of Moscow include control over export routes, the attempt to reinstate the Soviet Union, and the intimidation of the Western World. The Soviet Union may have collapsed, but the drive for state control over resources, people, and land did not. The only cure for the former Soviet Republic victims of Russia’s manipulation and coercion is through energy independence.
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Brown, Sierra
(2019)
"Russia's Use of the Energy Weapon: How Russia Manipulates Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltic States,"
Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal: Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.61366/2576-2176.1073
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/horizons/vol6/iss1/1
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Article