Russia emerges out of chaos -- An energy superpower? -- Energy assets -- Assembling the powerhouse -- Gazprom and the peculiarities of gas -- Counterreactions -- Global financial crisis -- Picking up the pieces -- Backward into the future

Introduction: energy and the institutional development of the Russian state -- Energy and Russia's foreign policy towards post-Soviet states -- The electricity industry: RAO UES and Inter RAO -- The nuclear energy industry: Minatom/Rosatom -- The oil industry: Lukoil -- The oil industry:...