Russian and European Union strategies and Ukraine's Energy Stability (2004-2014)

Ukraine has played an important role in the geopolitics of energy due to its geographical location and having a numerous gas pipelines. Although the interdependence between Russia, the European Union and Ukraine in the field of energy has provided a possibility for the expansion of cooperation, the formation of an asymmetric interdependence has affected Ukraine's energy stability. Based on this, this article seeks to answer the question that “How the strategies of Russia and the European Union have affected Ukraine's energy stability? In response to this question, it should be said that Russia by pursuing its energy strategies in ways such as diversifying transmission routes, dominating the energy markets, increasing prices, reducing and even cutting off the flow of energy transmission, imposing long-term contracts and using energy tools in political competitions in Ukraine, and the European Union in ways such as diversifying energy suppliers and focusing on renewable energy have influenced energy stability in Ukraine. In this study, qualitative method was used and data were collected based on library sources.