16.09.2013

Parlamentskaya Gazeta's center held a round table on "The Causes and Consequences of Power Transmission Price Freeze." Sergey Pikin, Director of Energy Development Fund, opened the meeting by stating that the price freeze is a "forced measure." "The economic growth is very low. Two percent growth would be an achievement already," was the...

08.08.2013

Moscow, August 8 Russian energy market needs a transparent system of relations between its participants, says Sergey Pikin, Director of the Energy Development Fund. Tenders for the status of Guaranteeing Suppliers (GS), organized pursuant to an order of the Russian Ministry of Energy, were launched last week in 11 regions where the...

17.04.2013 14:26:00

Strengthening of the largest Russian independent gas company Novatek, one of whose owners is Gennady Timchenko (thought to be a 'friend' of Putin), may not but be noticed. By all appearances, it is Timchenko's organization that is to become the ram that will at last breach Gazprom's monopoly in Russia at first, and then Gazprom's exclusive right...