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What's Oil Got To Do with It?
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What's Oil Got To Do with It?

Azerbaijan, Turkey, and the challenge of divesting from Russian petroleum

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May 21, 2024
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A map of a shipping route from the report discussed below, which shows the path taken by Russian oil via transport ships to Turkey for refinement and resale to the rest of Europe.
From Kremlin’s Pitstop, a 2024 report by the CREA and CSD, discussed below.

Hours before Russia invaded Ukraine, I published “Oil imperialism and the struggle for human control over our futures” at now-defunct OnlySky. There, I reflected on the intricacy of the global oil market, framed around a power-play disrupted by pandemic.

As such, I was not at all …

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