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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Russia may face wars over energy: Kremlin Wed May 13, 2009 10:56am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia may face wars on its borders in the near future over control of energy resources, a Kremlin document on security policy said on Wednesday. The paper did not name potential adversaries, but Russia, the world's biggest energy producer, shares a border of more than 3,600 km (2,250 miles) with resource-hungry China and a small sea border with the United States. "In a competition for resources, problems that involve the use of military force cannot be excluded that would destroy the balance of forces close to the borders of the Russian Federation and her allies," said the document, which maps out Russia's security strategy until 2020. "The attention of international politics in the long-term perspective will be concentrated on the acquisition of energy resources," the paper said. It said regions where such a competition for resources could arise included the Middle East, the Barents Sea, the Arctic, the Caspian Sea and Central Asia. Russia also sees increased competition for food, fresh water and land. The strategy document was approved by President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday and published on Wednesday by the Russian Security Council, which includes Russia's top politicians and intelligence chiefs and is chaired by Medvedev. Russia, the world's largest producer of gas and second biggest exporter of oil, sees these resources as a way to revive its clout as an "energy superpower" after the chaos which accompanied the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. GAS RIVALRY The Kremlin has watched with displeasure as the European Union, the United States and China seek to challenge its dominance over energy supplies from the former Soviet Union. Former president Vladimir Putin, now prime minister, has accused Washington of coveting Russia's mineral wealth. The European Union, which gets a quarter of its gas from Russia, is pushing a pipeline project known as Nabucco which would bypass Russia in pumping up to 31 billion cubic meters of gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe. The EU has courted Turkmenistan, Central Asia's biggest gas producer, as a potential supplier for Nabucco. This has provoked feverish Russian diplomacy to keep Moscow's grip over Turkmen gas intact. Energy, not an issue during Russia's short war with Georgia last August, was at the center of a row with Ukraine this January that led to the biggest disruption in decades to Russian gas supplies to Europe. The document says Russia will seek to widen ties with developing powers such as Brazil, India and China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which groups China and Central Asian states. The impact of the world economic crisis remains a major threat to national security, according to the document. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! 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