Asia, pipelines in, 162–64. See also specific countries
Asiatic Petroleum, 28
Aslund, Anders, 73
asset stripping, 79
Gazprom and, 104, 139–41, 143
Yukos and, 107, 111, 112
associated petroleum gas (APG), 186
auction royalty system, for oil production, 23
Austria, 168
NABUCCO, Hungary and, 9–10, 155–56
pipeline and, 9–10, 153, 154
reliance on Russian gas, 166
Azerbaijan. See also Baku, Azerbaijan
gas and, 9, 151, 153–55, 160–61
independent state of, 25
petroleum production in, 34
Azneft, 27
Badger, 27
Baikal Finance Group, 120, 122
Bakhmina, Svetlana, 116, 117, 225
Baku, Azerbaijan
kerosene from, 17–19
occupation/control of, 24–25, 27, 33
oil production in, 17–25, 27, 30, 31, 34, 39, 40, 228
pipelines and, 20, 26, 149, 154, 160–61
Second, 31
balance of trade, Soviet, 29–31
Balggand-Bacton pipeline (Netherlands-Great Britain), 167
Balkan Energy Cooperative Summit, 49
Balkans, 154. See also Trans-Balkan Oil Pipeline
Balkenende, Peter, 167
Baltic Sea pipeline, 156–60, 161, 167
Baltic states, 2, 166. See also specific states
Balzer, Harley, 97
banks, 66–69. See also specific banks
CIA on, 109
financial crash and, 74–77, 93, 170
Loans for Shares and, 64–65
Luxembourg, 120, 206
mafia control of, 109
Barents Sea, 83, 85, 130–31
Barnsdall Corporation, 26
Basayev, Shamil, 94
BASF (chemical corp.), 157, 167
Batumi, 20, 23, 26
Belarus
gas to, 49, 144–45, 151–53, 156, 159, 168, 183
Lukashenko and, 151, 227
Belkovsky, Stanislav, 225
Bell Petrole, 28
Beltransgaz, 152
Berezovskoe gas field, 38
Berezovsky, Boris, 225
Abramovich, Sibneft and, 104, 112, 123, 225, 230
Chechnia and, 94–95, 172
ORT and, 65, 103, 123, 225
politics and, 102–4
purge and, 100–104, 105
Putin and, 100–104, 105, 123, 172, 225
Sibneft and, 65, 68, 103, 112, 123, 174, 228, 230
Smolensky, Sibneft and, 65, 68, 228
Yeltsin and, 103
Berlin Blockade, of 1948, 137
Biotek, 200
Birol, Fatih, 89
Black Hundreds, 23
black market, 58, 101, 105, 148
Blair, Tony, 70, 126
Blavatnik, Leonard, 225
Access Industries and, 66, 225
Renova and, 230
TNK and, 66–67, 230
Bloomberg, Michael, 115
Blue Stream (Russia-Turkey gas pipeline), 155–56, 229
Bogdanchikov, Sergei, 114–15, 190–91, 200, 225
Bogdanov, Vladimir, 61, 65, 124, 197, 225
bonds, financial crash and, 74–76
Bosnia, 49
Bosporus Strait, Istanbul, 161
BP. See British Petroleum
BP/AMOCO, 70, 86
Bratsvo (“Brotherhood”) pipeline, 138
Brent oil, prices for, 14
Britain. See Great Britain
British-Mexican Petroleum, 28
British Petroleum (BP), 26. See also TNK-BP
Browne and, 91, 127, 226, 227
Haywood and, 227
Kovykta and, 131–32, 135, 162, 174, 184–85, 185, 229
pipelines and, 154–55, 161
Trinidad-Tabago facility, Gazprom and, 131–32, 179
Tyumen Oil and, 226
Browder, Earl, 143, 226
Browder, William, 143, 226
Browne, Lord John, 91, 127, 226, 227
Bruckhard, Bergmann, 168
Buffet, Warren, 115
Bulbov, Aleksandr, 200, 226
Bulgaria
gas to, 10, 153, 154, 156
pipeline between Greece and, 161–62
Bunge, A. A., 20
Burevestnik Yacht Club, 194
Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline, 161–62
Bush, George W.
Evans and, 176
G-8 briefing and, 7
Putin and, 208–9
Texas mafia and, 192
Butov, Vladimir, 84–85, 226
Campbell, Robert, 40
Canada
gas to U.S. from, 7, 139, 179
oil sands in, 180
capitalism
communism v., 58, 73
Soviet control and, 27–29, 31, 45
Carey, Sarah, 110
cars
foreign manufacturers, 202
hybrids/flex-fuel, 180–81
Case, Karl, 190
Casey, William, 49–54, 226
Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), 161
Caspian Sea pipeline, 156, 160–62, 221n73
Centragas Holding, 147
Centrica, 168, 169, 224n55
Ceyhan, Turkey, 149, 154, 160–61
Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 44
Chavez, Hugo, 90, 152
Chechnia, 55–56, 94–95, 102, 172, 199
Cheney, Dick, 71, 115
Halliburton and, 70, 79
Kazakhstan, gas pipeline and, 149, 154
Cherkesov, Viktor, 200
Chernogorneft oil fields, 69–70, 86
Chernomyrdin, Viktor, 48, 59–61, 100–101, 104–5, 140, 226
Chevron, 44, 86, 111–12
Chief Oil Committee (Glavny Nefitanoi Komitet), 27
China
economic blockades against, 221n77
gas to, 111, 162–63, 169, 186–87
GDP, 78, 90
increased demand/consumption in, 78–79, 90, 173, 180
investments abroad, 181, 205
petroleum to, 49, 111, 115
pipelines to, 111, 162–63
China National Petroleum Corporation, 163
CIA, 15. See also Casey, William
on banks, 109
output predictions by, 39, 43, 49–54, 56
Reagan, Casey and, 49–51, 226
CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), 152
CITIC group of China, 163
Cleland, David, 99
Clinton, Bill, 192
CMEA. See Council of Mutual Economic Assistance
Cohen, Michael D., 197
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 173
Cold War, 15, 80, 180
COMECON. See Council of Mutual Economic Assistance
“The Coming Russian Boom” (Layard/Parker), 73, 81
communism
capitalism v., 58, 73
collectivization and, 29
Communist Party, Zyuganov and, 68, 229
concessions, 23, 49
for foreigners, 26–27, 39, 174
Conoco, 84–85
ConocoPhillips, 85–86
LUKoil and, 126
Theede and, 229
Constantinople, fall of, 17
consumer goods, 66
corn-hog cycle, 88
Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA, COMECON), 44
Council of the People’s Commissars (CPK), 27
CPC. See Caspian Pipeline Consortium
CPK. See Council of the People’s Commissars
credit ratings, 81, 204
Crimean War, 19
Cuba, 14, 44, 221n77
cultural differences, 86–87
currencies
dollar, euro and ruble as world, 208
imports/exports and value of, 12, 14
reserves, 80–81, 91, 187, 203
Dagestan invasion, 94–95, 172
Danchenko, Igor, 99
Dart, Kenneth, 107, 108
debt, post-1998 recovery and, 75–77, 81, 91
de Gaulle, Charles, 99, 173
Degolyer-McNaughton, 87
Delay, Tom, 177, 178, 225
denationalization, of Baku, 25, 27
depressions, 23, 30, 32