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Viktor Yushchenko, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin. Source: www.danas.co.yu

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The achievements of Russian energy strategy

The Russian energy strategy has achieved several milestones in recent months. One of the achievements we can consider an agreement between Bulgaria, Greece and Russia to construct a pipeline between the Black and Aegean Seas, which made the project of Odessa-Brody- Gdansk line less viable. Other important point was a successful round trip of the Russian President in Central Asian states and signing…

Head Office of Algerian company Sonatrach. Source: www.visitoran.com

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Natural gas cartel

In the beginning of 2007, the idea to establish a gas cartel in the manner of OPEC was brought to the table again. The proposition to the Secreatry of the Russian Security Council Igor Ivanov was presented in January by Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran. The idea to establish an institutional cover for gas producers is not new, and its main and first representative is the Russian President Putin…

The projected route of the Nabucco pipeline. Source: www.wikimedia.org

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Nabucco, Hungary and joint European energy policy

The project of Nabucco gas pipeline, which in the future could make a step towards lowering the dependence on Russian supplies, has been drawn in plans for a few years. Its main supporter became the European Commission; based on warning signals of increasing dependence on small number of gas suppliers, it is searching for possibilities of partial diversification of natural gas origin and route…

Gazprom headquarters in Moscow

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The role of intermediary companies in Russian-Ukrainian relations and implications for the countries of Central Europe

Since the beginning of the 1990s, intermediary companies have been operating in the sphere of natural gas purchasing between Turkmenistan, the Russian concern Gazprom, the Ukrainian side represented by Naftohaz Ukrainy company and Europe. Their background brings factor of corruption, interconnection with interest groups and more or less reiterating names into natural gas trade…

Druzhba pipeline capacity is 1,2 million. barrels of oil per day. Source: www.robertamsterdam.com

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Potential owners of Transpetrol

Transpetrol is on the Slovak territory the only operator of the oil pipeline Druzba transporting around 10 million tonnes of oil from the Russian Federation (RF) with direction to the West. The company deals with transport of oil and its storage for its customers and for the Administration for State Material Reserves of the Slovak Republic. In 2005 the company transported the highest volume of oil…

Wind turbines in Denmark. Source: http://www.europa.eu

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European energy policy in the view of global energy processes

Besides the military, power political, social, ecological and economic aspects the security model being multifarious and complex it also takes into consideration the factor of reliable supplies of energy raw materials – primarily gas and oil. In one of its possible definitions the energy security is understood as a constant accessibility of energy sources in their various forms, acceptable quality and affordable prices…

Shanghai City - a symbol of China's economic growth. Source: http://www.honors.neu.edu

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Chinese business culture

For the last two decades, China enjoyed an enormous growth of its economic and political importance. “The sleeping giant” was transformed into an important and lucrative destination of numerous European, American and Japanese business interests. To perfectly know Chinese business etiquette, culture and its beauty is crucial for a stranger, who is or who wants to be in a close contact with China..

Business district of Tokyo - Ginza. Source: www.fantom-xp.com

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Trade strategy of Japanese companies on foreign markets

One of the most common character traces of Japanese internal market is the struggle of big corporations for a share in the market. Unlike the Western style of competitive fight, in which companies are trying to maximaze profit and thus create the highest financial satisfaction for their share holders through dividends, Japanese companies concentrate on proving the abilities of their managements…