Energy and Politics in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Readings

Russia & Oil and Gas

• Energopolitical Russia: Corporation, State, and the Rise of Social and Cultural Projects

Russia & Electricity

• Post-Soviet Developmentalism and the Political Economy of Russia’s Electricity Sector Liberalization

Ukraine & Energy

• Energy Policies beyond IEA Countries – Ukraine 2012

Video

Susanne Wengle, post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, discusses the energy industry in Russia and Ukraine.

Web Links

• The Politics of Energy Dependency: Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania Between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure [University of Toronto Press, 2015]
• Putin and the Oligarchs: The Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair [I.B. Tauris, 2014]
• New York Times articles on Gazprom
• Russia and Ukraine Keep Talks Alive in Gas Feud
• Shale and non-Russian gas imports at heart of new EU energy strategy