Interview Stanislav Zhiznin: ‘Russia is following the example of Norway’

Proposals made by the European Commission in September to limit Russian investments in the energy infrastructure in the EU have put an extra strain on already greatly strained EU-Russian relations. In his new book Energy Diplomacy, Stanislav Zhiznin, President of the Center for Energy Diplomacy and Geopolitics in Moscow and one of the architects of Russian energy policy, puts into perspective Russian energy policies of the last thirty years.