Sanctions and Moscow’s Adaptation Strategy
Journal: ANU Press eBooks
Year: 2021

Following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its hybrid war in Eastern Ukraine, the US and EU imposed several waves of sanctions on Russia.This chapter delves into how these sanctions, primarily those imposed on the energy sector, have impacted and shaped Russia's foreign energy strategy.By design, Western sanctions did not aim to limit the current supply of energy exported from Russia, but intended to raise the cost of developing Russia's long-term and technologically challenging project