جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « یلتسین » در نشریات گروه « علوم سیاسی »

Using energy as a weapon, the new Russia seeks to reconstruct its empire. The Russian government has declared an economic model since 2001 entitled rationalization which has been implemented by the Putin's government. State ownership especially concerns the oil industry which was expanded by confiscating the Yukas Company's properties and Gazprom's procurement of the apple oil company. The Russian government has banned foreign companies from purchasing any share in the country's energy industry, making it possible for Gazprom to become a crucial economic arm of the government by purchasing and controlling Russia's energy network. Gazprom is a strong leverage of the government in economic-political management within Russia and in the world energy markets. This paper examines Russia's domestic and international policies in the energy sector, exploring Gazprom's role in the country's political-economic developments as well as its part in international equations for the Russian Federation.

Following the Cold War, Russia gripped with tremendous economic and political problems, under these circumstances, the U.S. could easily expand its influence in the Middle East. During this period, Russia which involved in its economic reconstruction, adopted a foreign policy towards the region which was in line with the U.S. policies. This paved the way for Washington to further its goals in the region more easily. Although since the mid-1990s, Russia realized that preserving its influence in the "near abroad" depended on expanding ties with the countries such as Iran and Turkey, we did not observe any major confrontation between Moscow and Washington at that time. When Putin came to power, relations between the two countries were ameliorating, but the U.S. attack on Iraq faced this trend with some challenges, so that Russians realized that their domestic and regional security and power could be better safeguarded by adopting an independent stance vis-à-vis the U.S. For this reason, since than, the international system has witnessed independent and sometimes confrontational approaches taken by Kremlin regarding the White House policies towards the regions such as the Middle East.