Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club for a lunch seminar with energy analyst Mikhail Krutikhin. He will discuss the history of the Soviet and Russian oil and gas trade with Europe, Russia’s possible weaponization of energy interdependence with Europe, and the energy crisis in Europe amid the Russia-Ukraine war. We encourage you to read his recent article explaining “how the Kremlin sacrifices Gazprom’s revenues to blackmail Europe.” The Eurasia Club weekly lunch seminar series engages with students, faculty, staff, and researchers to foster a better understanding of the region among members of the Fletcher community. Members of the wider Tufts community are also welcome to attend. Lunch will be served. Register via myFletcher.

Mikhail Krutikhin is a co-founder and leading analyst of RusEnergy, an independent consulting agency based in Moscow, Russia. A graduate of the Institute of Oriental Languages at the Moscow Lomonosov State University, he majored in Iranian philology in 1970 and obtained a Ph.D. in modern history in 1985. Between 1972 and 1992, he worked at the TASS news agency on missions to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. Since 1993, he has been analyzing opportunities and specifics of investments in the energy industry in the former USSR — first with the U.S.-based Russian Petroleum Investor Inc. and then with RusEnergy. His regularly gives academic lectures and participates in think tanks both inside Russia and internationally.