Russia Set to Resume Oil & Gas Operations in Iraqi Kurdistan 

Russia is to restart its key oil and gas operations in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) according to recent comments from its Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev. From 2017 until the forced removal of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Moscow’s extensive energy operations in the KRI provided it with very cheap oil and gas supplies and were also an integral part of its growing geopolitical presence on the western flank of the Middle East. This encompassed the KRI, much of the rest of Iraq under the control of its Federal Government…