The ongoing decline in global oil prices is very bad news for Putin’s regime which depends on oil and gas revenues for about 40% of its federal budget.
This “black swan” comes in a flock—it coincides with the global coronavirus pandemic, the introduction of new US sanctions targeting the Russian energy sector; and on the domestic front, exacerbated by an extremely unpopular move by Putin to rewrite the Constitution with the sole goal of remaining in power for life.
We put together a matrix with scenarios for Russia under various energy market assumptions. Below, we have put together a matrix with scenarios for Russia and various energy market assumptions.
This is an excerpt from a Free Russia Foundation study Russian Scenarios 2030, that also includes chapters on:
- Elites’ Cohesion and Coup D’état
- Military Confrontation
- Russia as a Proxy Superpower of China
- Decentralization
- Local Military Conflicts
- Two Positive Scenarios
- The Sanctions Scenario
- State Crony Capitalism
- Russia and China in 2030
- De-escalation
- Succession after Putin’s Unexpected Death
