“As for the export of energy resources: it is necessary to accelerate the implementation of infrastructure projects – railway, pipeline, port, which in the coming years will allow redirecting oil and gas supplies from the West to promising markets – to the South and East,” the head of state said following a meeting on oil and gas industry.
As Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said earlier, Russia is studying the issue of diversifying energy supplies.
The Guardian wrote that the reorientation of Russian exports of EU oil, gas and coal to Asian importers would be a big economic shock.