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In this chapter, the authors review the current literature, discovering that even though Russia’s foreign policy and its (foreign) energy policy are important and frequent topics in current research, its relationship to South-Eastern Europe has been largely neglected.
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Here, the term ‘Russia’ refers to state units existing within or overlapping with the area of the current Russian Federation.
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By the term ‘era’, the authors refer to the period which started when Vladimir Putin first assumed the presidency, through his years as prime minister, to the present.
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The term ‘energy exports’ may also include other energy-related commodities like technologies or know-how.
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Vlček, T., Jirušek, M. (2019). Literature Review. In: Russian Oil Enterprises in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19839-8_2
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