Zengin enerji kaynakları ve bu enerji kaynaklarının ekonomisindeki yeri nedeniyle Rusya

Russia is one of the major players of the world energy market due to its vast resources andplaces of energy resources in its economy. Russian foreign energy policy needs new markets inorder to sustain its growth and soft hegemony once more in Central Asia. In East Asia, Chinaremains to be great consumer and a competitor for Russian great turning back to the region.However China has improved its economic and energy relations with particular three CentralAsian states, and constituted a balance in the region in terms of Russian energy monopolyperspective. In return, Russia turned its face to Japan in order to trigger a competition betweenBeijing and Tokyo and/or Seoul for Russian energy resources despite the ongoing Russian-Chinese natural gas price talks. For that reason, it is aimed to analyze of Russian new foreignenergy policy towards Asia regarding three global actors; China, Japan and the two Koreas.