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If my memory of geography serves me correctly, there are considerable steppes in Eastern Europe (though the natural ecosystems have been heavily modified by human exploitation) as well as the even greater areas east of the Urals. Either way - there is still considerable potential for Russia to become a significant net exporter of bio-fuels if that becomes economically viable and political policy..
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Russia's potential for net exports of biofuels is considerable compared to its own total of agricultural production. It is miniscule compared to the total European fuel demand.
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Most of the undeveloped land is in all likelihood in Asia. At any rate, it makes little sense to call fuel that has to be transported thousands of kilometres "bio". It is also problematic that to develop this much land, at least under the assumption that the Russian Ministry of Agriculture doesn't convert to orgsanic farming, a lot of fossil oil is needed: for the tractors that plow up the virgin land, for other tractors building irrigation, to run the irrigation itself, and fertilizers.
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