The Energy in Russia is an area of the national economy, science, and technology of the Russian Federation, encompassing energy resources, production, transmission, transformation, accumulation, distribution, and consumption of various types of energy.
2nd Magistralnaya Street powerplants in Moscow
Russia in the European energy sector
Russia supplies a significant volume of fossil fuels to other European countries. In 2021, it was the largest exporter of oil and natural gas to the European Union, (90%) and 40% of gas consumed in the EU came from Russia.
Angela Merkel criticized the United States's sanctions against Russia that target EU–Russia energy projects.
Natural gas presented as an instrument of Russian state power
Sergey Kiriyenko, the head of state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom from 2005 to 2016