Russian State and Russian Energy Companies, 1992–2018

Ingerid M. Opdahl is associate professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) at the Norwegian Defence University College, and heads the IFS’s Russian Security and Defence Programme. She obtained a PhD in Russian, European and Eurasian Studies from the University of Birmingham in 2016. Opdahl has earlier published on Russia’s relations with Georgia and with Central Asian states. Her current research is part of the international research project Russia’s Politicized Economy, Elite Dynamics and the Domestic-Foreign Policy Nexus (RUSECOPOL), funded by the Norwegian Research Council and led by the IFS.

• 1.Introduction: Energy and the institutional development of the Russian state2.Energy and Russia’s foreign policy towards post-Soviet states3.The electricity industry: RAO UES and Inter RAO4.The nuclear energy industry: Minatom/Rosatom5.The oil industry: Lukoil6.The oil industry: Transneft and pipeline transport7.The gas industry: Gazprom8.Conclusions: Political economy and foreign policyIndex

"These developments ideally call—however difficult it is at present—for a revision of the book to take into account recent events. The Russian State and Russian Energy Companies clearly has the potential to be more forward-looking if revised. Yet even in its current form it remains a gem for any researcher of Russia, of its political and economic system, as well as of its energy sector in 1992–2018." - Tatiana Romanova, St. Petersburg State University