U.S. v. Russian, 4t-6t, 11, 20–22, 29, 32, 35t-37t
Okulov, Valery, 103
oligarchs. See also banks; siloviki; specific individuals
politics and, 102–4
privatization and, 58–59, 64, 69
Putin and, 99, 100–116, 117t-119t, 171, 194–98, 200–201
OMV (Austrian utility company), 154, 156, 230
OneksimBank, 65, 68, 230
ONGC Videsh, 72
OPEC. See Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Orenberg gas processing plant, 60
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
GECF v., 179
OGEC v., 164–65
price cutting and, 46–47, 82, 165
Saudi Arabia and, 46, 88–89
Orsk refinery, 59
ORT (TV network), 65, 103, 123, 225
Ossetia, 149–50
Pakistan, 44
Palashkovsky, S. S., 20
Paris Club, 81
Parker, John, 73, 91
Parsees, 17
Patrushev, Nikolai, 196, 200, 228
Persian Gulf, 82, 137, 157
Persians, 17–18, 19, 25, 28
Peter the Great, 17–18
petroleum. See also oil fields; oil pipelines; oil prices; oil production; wells; specific companies/countries
auction system for selling, 18
availability of Russian, 188, 189t
breakup/privatization of industry, 61, 62f-63f, 83–85
byproduct gas of, 183–84, 186
companies, expansion abroad, 173–74, 175t
decline in production, 56, 71–72
as diplomatic weapon, 43–49
extraction with rags and buckets, 18
franchising system for selling, 18
lower standard of living and per capita consumption of, 21
market for gas v., 164–65
reserve data companies, 87
Russia v. U.S. production, 4t-6t, 11, 20–22, 29, 32, 35t-37t, 46
Saudi Arabian production, 11, 13, 35t-37t, 79, 91
Soviet balance of trade and, 29–31
stagnation, 22–24
petroleum exports. See also specific countries
politics and, 28–29, 31–32
post-1998 recovery and, 73–92
Sutton on, 29, 213n51
Petukhov, Vladimir, 65, 108–9, 228
Philbro Energy Products, 84
Phillips Electronics, 93
Pichugin, Alexei, 108, 115, 117
pipelines. See natural gas pipelines; oil pipelines; specific countries/pipelines
planning, production and innovation, 39–43
Poland, 153, 156, 159, 162, 166
Polar Lights, 84
politicians, for sale, 176–78
politics
economic blockades against China and Cuba, 221n77
energy resources and, 3, 7, 11, 13, 14, 48–49, 84–85, 138, 163–64, 169
oil exports and, 28–29, 31–32
oligarchs and, 102–4
social problems and, 199
pollution, 128, 131, 159, 185, 219n70
Polo, Marco, 17
population, shrinking, 198–99
Portugal, 28, 96, 153
Potanin, Vladimir
banks and, 68–69
Loans for Shares and, 63–65, 68
Norilsk Nickel and, 64–65, 68–69, 182, 230
OneksimBank and, 65, 68, 230
Sidanko and, 65, 68, 69–70
poverty, 96, 199
Prana, 122
price cutting, 20, 23, 32
OPEC and, 46–47, 82, 165
overabundance/limiting oil production and, 44
Seven Sisters and, 45–46
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), 122–23
Primakov, Evgeny, 94, 228
princelings, 196t, 197
privatization
chaos and, 57–59
fight over spoils and, 188, 190–91
gas and, 59–61
incentives and, 53
oil prices and, 56, 69, 72
oligarchs and, 58–59, 64, 69
petroleum industry breakup and, 61, 62f-63f, 83–85
in post-Soviet era, 55–72
renationalization v., 133, 173–74, 176, 184
taxes and, 56–57, 61, 64, 84–85
vouchers and, 58, 60, 106, 107
production. See also oil production
industrial, recovery and, 95t, 96–97, 171
planning, innovation and, 39–43
plan targets and, 30–31, 53
Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs), 71–72, 86
Sakhalin and, 71–72, 129–33, 174
taxes and, 174
Turkmenistan and, 148
productivity, 4, 196
profit and loss, 30, 45
Protek, 200
PSAs. See Production Sharing Agreements
purges, 99, 100–120, 226. See also specific companies/individuals
Putin, Vladimir. See also FOP
at Balkan Energy Cooperative Summit, 49
Berezovsky and, 100–104, 105, 123, 172, 225
Bush and, 208–9
Chechnia and, 94–95, 102, 172
Deripaska and, 124, 226
dissertation by, 97–99
foreign firms and, 85–87
Gazprom and, 83, 100–101, 104–5, 139–44, 190–91
Kudrin and, 192, 201, 227
“national champions” and, 15, 98–99, 100t, 101, 104, 105, 124–26, 128, 141, 172–73
on NATO, 208
oligarchs and, 99, 100–116, 117t-119t, 171, 194–98, 200–201
politics and, 102–4
as president, 15, 99–101, 139
as prime minister, 93–96, 103, 170, 172, 201
purges, 99, 100–120, 226
on Russia’s reliability, 164
Schroeder on, 172
Sobchak and, 97, 139, 192, 228
state of the nation speech, 2006, 142
three envelopes, Yeltsin and, 194
Timchenko, Gunvor and, 229
as Time “Man of the Year,” 171
TNK-BP and, 70, 126–27
too many foreigners, 87
TV networks and, 102
Warnig and, 158–59, 229
on World Trade Organization and IMF, 207–8
PWC. See PricewaterhouseCoopers
Qatar
gas reserves of, 139
GECF and, 179
OGEC and, 164, 165
QM Group, 69
racial tensions, 23
Raiffeisen Bank, 147
Raiffeisen Investment AG, 147
RAO Gazprom, 100
Rapallo Pact, of 1922, 159
Raymond, Lee, 112–13, 228
Reagan, Ronald, 48–51, 82, 137–38, 226
Rebgun, Eduard K., 122
recessions, 75, 77, 180
recovery
of economy, 14–16, 95t, 96–97, 170–71, 203
post-1998, petroleum export and, 73–92
refinery construction, 26, 27
reform
Gorbachev on, 60, 106
transparency and, 110–11
renationalization, 15, 134t, 135
privatization v., 133, 173–74, 176, 184
of Sibneft, 15, 104, 123–24, 134
of Yukos, 15, 105, 123, 174
Renova, 229, 230
Revolutions
1905 Russian, 23
1917 Bolshevik, 23, 24–26, 174
RN-Razvitiye, 122
Rockefeller, John D., 19–20, 228
Roketsky, Leonid, 70, 228
Romania, 34, 154
Romashkino, 31, 34, 230
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 76
ROP. See Russian Oil Products
Rosneft
Bogdanchikov and, 114–15, 190–91, 200, 225
breakup and reconsolidation of petroleum industry and, 61, 62f-63f
Conoco and, 84
Gazprom and, 83, 173, 184, 186, 190–91