This chapter analyses bilateral Chinese–Russian energy relations, pre and post Crimea. The signing of the Power of Siberia megaproject in May 2014, only two months after Russia's annexation of Crimea, created the impression that China bankrolled Russia out of the crisis. To assess the veracity...

Machine generated contents note:1.Introduction: Can Russia And Its Oil Companies Handle Change? --2.Rosneft: Lord Of The Rigs --3.Lukoil: Patriotic Cosmopolite --4.Gazprom Neft: Reformed Rake --5.Surgutneftegas: Quiet Conservative --6.Tatneft: Genghis Can --7.Conclusion: Champions Of Change.

This article examines and compares efforts to reduce energy subsidies in China, India and Russia. Despite dissimilarities in forms of governance, these three states have followed surprisingly similar patterns in reducing energy subsidies, characterised by two steps forward, one step back....

Explanations of Russia's foreign energy policy typically focus on major events, such as the gas conflicts with Ukraine, and argue that these events represent simplistic patterns of behavior, reflecting the policy-makers' emphasis on politics, commercial gain, corruption, or ad hoc opportunism....

This article explores the influence of socio-economic discontent on the determination of decision makers to cut subsidies on natural gas for Russian households. The authors outline first the organisation of gas supplies and subsidies, and secondly the relationship between policymaking signals...

During an intense period of only 14 months, from June 2010 to August 2011, six major cooperation agreements between oil companies were announced in Russia. Almost all of these partnerships involved offshore projects, with an international oil company as one of the partners and Rosneft as the...