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Energy in Russia’s foreign policy  PDF  (2 Mb)

“What lessons can we learn from the Soviet collapse and apply to the current situation in Russia?
First, we must remember that Russia today is an oil-dependent economy. No one can accurately predict the fluctuations of oil prices. The collapse of the Soviet Union should serve as a lesson to those who construct policy based on the assumption that oil prices will remain perpetually high. It would seem that in our country, which has lived through the collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, this fact would be evident. But as soon as the prices went up again at the beginning of 2000 and in 2004 became comparable in real terms to those at the beginning of the 1980s, the idea that ‘high oil revenues are forever’ has gained an even wider acceptance.

  • Kari Liuhto  |  Опубликовано на EGF: 20.05.2010  |  Energy
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Changing EU Energy Legislation: Practical Scenarios for Strengthening the EU-Russia Energy Partnership  PDF  (162 Kb) Members only

Energy Roundtable Summary Document

The EU-Russia energy roundtable discussion held at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) on February 26, 2010, brought together a significant number of well known experts and policy makers engaged in the EU-Russia energy relationship in order to assess some of the challenges which presently exist in this sphere. Some of these challenges are summarised below. The objectives of the seminar organisers were to create an environment in which experts and policy makers could openly and candidly discuss the challenges standing before the EU-Russia energy relationship. The roundtable was also attended by a large number of participants from academia, government, energy companies and the diplomatic community.

  • EGF Editorial  |  Опубликовано на EGF: 17.05.2010  |  Energy
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EGF Foreign Policy Briefing: Russian Relations with the Syrian Arab Republic  PDF  (58 Kb) Members only

Although Russia is now concentrating on its near abroad (the states and territories of the former Soviet Union), not global domination, for both geo-political and strategic reasons, the Arab and Muslim countries of the Middle East are of substantial and even growing interest to Moscow. Its bilateral relations with Syria are of particular importance for both parties and are not without impact on the whole region.

  • Andrej Kreutz  |  Опубликовано на EGF: 05.05.2010  |  External Relations
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Gazprom’s Partner ENI Loses Confidence in South Stream

Italy’s ENI chief executive, Paolo Scaroni, has proposed unifying the Gazprom-led South Stream with the European Union-backed Nabucco pipeline project. The Italian state-controlled energy conglomerate ENI is the key technological and commercial partner to Gazprom in South Stream, the project aimed at transporting gas from Russia across the Black Sea to Europe

  • Vladimir Socor  |  Опубликовано на EGF: 21.03.2010  |  Energy
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Russian Oil & Gas Strategy: What does it mean for the global oil markets?  Power Point  (2 Mb)

Presentation on "17th MIDDLE EAST PETROLEUM&GAS CONFERENCE"

  • Tatiana Mitrova  |  Опубликовано на EGF: 20.01.2010  |  Energy
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Russian Relations to the Gulf Region in a Changing Geopolitical Environment  PDF  (375 Kb)

Scholars of most academic disciplines across the social sciences have a fondness for comparing different regions in order to evaluate :

  • why one may be developing more rapidly than another,

  • why democracy may be stalled in one region or flourishing in another,

  • why the benefits foreseen by economic reform have proven less conclusive in some regions when compared to others...

  • Dr. Marat Terterov  |  Опубликовано на EGF: 15.01.2010  |  External Relations
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Political Risk and Threat Advisory Briefing: Putting Putin’s Russia Strategy into Perspective Members only

In the spring of 2009 Russia remains in the midst of deep recession, as the country seeks to pull itself out of the biggest economic crisis faced since 1998. The political challenge this poses to the current Russian government of Prime Minister and former-President, Vladimir Putin, is substantial...

  • Dr. Marat Terterov  |  Опубликовано на EGF: 08.05.2010  |  Energy
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Russia in the global economic storm  PDF  (72 Kb)

Russia has been badly affected by the economic crisis, because in the boom years - when it was able to rely on oil and gas exports - it had not diversified its economic base or introduced any major structural economic reforms, speakers agreed at an EPC Policy Dialogue organised with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and with World Bank support. They hoped the crisis would spur Moscow to introduce reforms, particularly to modernise the banking sector, public administration and governance structures.

  • Event Report  |  Опубликовано на EGF: 06.05.2009  |  Markets
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