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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets .com/reports/ c36394) has announced the addition of "Georgia: Russian Foreign Energy Policy and Implications for Georgia's Energy Security 1st Edition" to their offering.

This report shows that as Georgia has restructured its energy sector, the new Russian and Georgian political elites exerted their influence, particularly through the participation of Russian gas company Itera in privatizations of Georgian gas enterprises. And how, over the past few years, Russian-Georgian business groups with their offshore capital have been working to monopolise the Georgian economy and Russia's gas industry has been consolidating its hold over the CIS pipeline infrastructure, particularly through the expansion of Gazprom. However, Gazprom failed to take control of Georgia's pipeline infrastructure and Georgia is insistent on developing its pipeline potential in order to boost its role as a transit route to Europe, Turkey and Iran.

This series of reports establishes for the first time the confluence of Russian foreign policy with the acquisition of foreign energy assets by Russian entities. Nine specific country profiles focus on the oil, gas, electricity and nuclear power industries. Each report written by an author of international standing, explains how Russian foreign energy downstream mergers and acquisitions are transpiring to consolidate the new Russian empire.

Key topics covered:

-- Russia's energy policy and implications for Georgian industrial consumers and network operations, 1992-1995

-- Russia's energy policy and implications for Georgian industrial consumers and the Georgian energy network: 1995-2002

-- Gazprom in Georgia: a new geopolitical game

Companies mentioned:

-- Itera

-- Intergas

-- Gazprom

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/ reports/c36394