El rescate de la industria petrolera en Rusia y la utilización de los energéticos como instrumento de política exterior

Abstract

In this article is examined the situation of the oil industry in Russia alter the two presidential periods of Boris Yeltsin, which conducted it to a dramatic decline and privatization and trigger Russia’s national security and energetic security. Therefore the arrive of unknown Vladimir Putin to Russian presidency represented a watershed in the strategy of recover of oil and gas industry and it s use as foreign policy instrument. Key words: Russia, petroleum, geopolitics.