Since early 2006, Russia has been attempting to change the rules on the international energy market to suit its own …, as its dependence on imports of raw materials is increasing. Russia believes to be able to choose between serving the … its strategic energy partnership with Russia, but also to diversify the existing import structures. Russland versucht seit …

Russia is the world's biggest natural gas producer, with output of 581 bn m3 in 2001, and is also a key supplier of the … variable of Russian economic policy, and any institutional evolution of its gas export markets is crucial for Russia's economy …, and therefore for Russia. …

Prospects for Russia’s membership in the WTO now look better than any point since accession negotiations began almost a … decade ago. Good progress with economic and legal reforms within Russia has left the country’s economy better prepared for … on the import tariff levels and access to the service sectors are the least of the problems. Much more difficult will be …

Please help us to improve the Statistical Annex by filling in the survey. Graph of the month Ukraine and Russia shares … South Stream pipeline in the present circumstances? (by Rumen Dobrinsky; pp. 2) Bulgaria and the Russia–Ukraine conflict … rising risks for energy supplies and big investment projects (by Rumen Dobrinsky; pp. 3-6) Romania and the Russia …

from this analysis is that Russia’s sanctions successes in the 1990s created a strong desire in many of the NIS to reduce …Abstract: Daniel Drezner’s 1999 book The Sanctions Paradox used case studies from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s … to test his game-theoretic model—the Conflict Expectations Model--of sanctions behavior. The model purports to help …

) Opinion corner Russia-Ukraine conflict do Western sanctions have any effect? (by Vasily Astrov, Vladimir Gligorov, Peter …

We analyze the impact of the pro-Russian conflict on stock returns in Russia and the Ukraine during the period November …