Pricing Pain: Social Discontent and Political Willpower in Russia's Gas Sector

Europe - Asia Studies

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 311-331

  Overland, Indra ^a   Kutschera, Hilde ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS NUPI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GAS SUPPLY; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL REFORM; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 79952722273     PISSN: 09668136     EISSN: 14653427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2011.547700     Document Type: Article

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