Russia's Energy Policy: A Framing Comment.

The article offers a framing comment on the two papers published in the journals "Russia's Energy Policy" and "Russia's Energy Policy: A Divergent View." The author, a specialist on the Russian economy, contended that Russia's current energy policy should be regarded as a consequence of competition between three overlapping programs. In this consideration, he keys out three policy models that include the old Soviet, the liberal and the state capitalist.