According to the linked reference, Russia is working to develop its shale gas reserves within 15-years to better supply Asia, particularly including China, with more natural gas (which considering methane leaks can have a GHG footprint heavier than coal development):
http://www.rtcc.org/2015/06/19/is-russia-moving-towards-a-fracking-future/Extract: "Last year, then-Nato chief Anders Rasmussen accused Russia, the world’s second-largest producer of natural gas, of spreading misinformation to destabilise shale.President Vladimir Putin said Russia needs to “rise to the challenge” of the changing market in 2012. In other words: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.Russia is being pushed towards tapping shale and its other abundant unconventional gas deposits to preserve its stake in the global energy mix, experts say. Holder of the world’s largest natural gas reserves, the country could have up to 2.5 times the amount in unconventional reserves – shale, hydrates and coal-bed methane – as conventional supplies, Gazprom estimates. Russia still holds five times the US’ natural gas reserves with 44.6 trillion cubic metres (tcm), according to BP’s 2014 statistical review. Just 3% of the approximate 680 tcm of unconventional is shale. And 90% of total unconventional resources are located on the Asian side of the country, from the Ural Mountains through Siberia to the remote Arctic regions.
Ten years after the US shale boom began, Russia is at least 15 years off commercial production, according to government projections. And amid plentiful supplies of natural gas, it doesn’t yet make economic sense, though geopolitical factors are weighing in. “Although the present conjuncture is not conducive to investments in the still locally unproven and expensive methods of obtaining energy resources, Russia is developing its unconventional gas industry more and more boldly,” according to a policy brief by the Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs (PISM).
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Russia is looking toward Asian economies, from Indonesia and Vietnam to India and China, who are conducting research programmes in their own territories, as it pivots away from old markets in Europe, the brief said."