A flood of discounted Saudi crude is heading for Europe, but Russia might just have the only producers in the world equipped to compete with it.
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/12Mar2020/handelsblatt/preisgkrieg.html
https://lenta.ru/articles/2020/03/12/rna_1940/
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27103/4177370/
https://www.mk.ru/social/2020/03/12/prishla-pora-vynesti-nevynosimogo-ilicha-iz-mavzoleya.html
This week's oil price rout had become inevitable and cutting output has ceased to make sense because it is unclear how deep the impact of the coronavirus on demand will be, Russia's deputy energy minister said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday.
https://www.mk.ru/politics/2020/03/11/sindrom-velikoderzhaviya-ottalkivaet-sosedey-ot-rossii.html
https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/velyka-naftova-stavka-rosiji/30482231.html