Ukraine's Energy Challenge
OP-ED
Walter Russell Mead: US gas cutting into Gazprom’s bottom line
A picture taken on November 30, 2013 shows Russian gas giant Gazprom's logo attached on the roof of a Adler thermal power plant in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.
If Western sanctions will only have an effect on Russia's energy outlook in the long term, there is one factor that is likely to exact a more short-term cost. And Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas company, is already feeling the pain.