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Article: Scientists at East Carolina University report research in Eurasian economics.
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- China Weekly News
- Article date:
- June 2, 2009
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"A noted American economist and specialist on the economics of the former Soviet Union presents the results of his research on the Eurasian network of natural gas pipelines," investigators in the United States report.
"While the focus is on the political economy of network interdependence, the author covers in considerable detail the political significance of Russia's substantial market power and its efforts to enhance that power in 2007 and 2008. More specifically, he highlights Gazprom's role both as a supplier of natural gas to Europe and as the core of a monopoly controlling exports, of natural gas from Russia and Central Asia by expropriating and/or blocking ...