Russia’s place in natural gas market: modern trends, threats and prospects

This article deals with the analysis of the Russian natural gas market development. Today in terms of the complicated relations between Russia and countries that imposed sanctions against Russia due to the Ukrainian crisis this problem is especially important. The main aims of the article are: to analyze the global natural gas market; to reflect the importance of European market saving for Russia’s gas producers, the threats analysis for the Russian natural gas market both in spheres of external relations with key European partners and in the spheres of the alternative energy sources development; to considerate the prospects of the new ways of Russia’s natural gas external relations development.

natural, gas, Gazprom, sanctions, EU, Ukraine, prospects