INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE TIME OF SACTIONS - SOME THOUGHTS ON ENERGY POLICY, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF RUSSIAN ENERGY SECTOR
The paper estimates the changing role of technological and political factors in the development of world economy and energy sector, describes the main ways of energy technologies development for the years and decades to come. The paper articulates the core priorities for Russian energy policy in the oil and gas sector, analyses the role of external political factors and international cooperation in Russian economy and energy sector’s development. The paper presents the analysis of the interconnections between Russia and EU in the framework of new political reality, which was made by foreign specialists in the course of XIII Nice «Energy and Geopolitics» Forum (November, 2014).