Received Date: 27/05/2020 • Accepted Date: 16/06/2020
Russia’s energy/gas policy in general and the Kremlin’s energy/gas policy in the Balkans in particular have been of interest to observers for a long time. Many of them regard Moscow’s policy to be informed not just by economic but also by geopolitical interests. Ten years ago, Janusz Bugajski made this clear: “South Stream is also intended to split the EU and prevent the construction of an all-European energy network linking Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Europe that would be independent of Russia’s control.”1
