Program in Ukrainian

Friday, March 7, 2008
9:15 a.m.–12:00 noon

37min

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Timothy Colton
Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Session 1. Actors and Interests in the Aftermath of the 2006 Gas Crisis

Chair: Oxana Shevel
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

"The Gas Crisis of Early 2006: A Retrospective View"

Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute

"In the Wake of the 2006 Ukrainian–Russian Gas Agreements: New Rules of the Game"

Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

9min

"Russia and the Rise of Gazprom"
Rawi Abdelal 
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Faculty
Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

22min

"RosUkrEnergo and Its Place in the Ukraine-Russia Gas Trade, 2006-2008"
Roman Kupchinsky
Partner, AZEast Group (international consultants on Eurasian country business risk and due diligence)
former Director, Ukrainian Service, RFE/RL

20min

"The Missing Pieces? Central Asia and Its Neighbors"
Carol Saivetz
Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

47min

Discussion

8min

Comments
Martha Brill Olcott
Senior Associate, Russian and Eurasian Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC

Friday, March 7, 2008
2:15 –5:00 p.m.

Session 2. Gas Trade and Energy Schemes: Their Role in National and International Politics

20min

Chair: Lisbeth Tarlow
Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

"Current Issues and Challenges in Ukraine's Energy Economy"
Volodymyr Saprykin 
Director of Energy Programs, Ukrainian Centre for Political and Economic Studies, Kyiv

31min

"How the Gas Issue Plays in Ukrainian Politics and How Ukrainian Politicians Play the Gas Issue"
Taras Kuzio
Research Associate, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

19min

"Private Interests and the Russian State: Gazprom and Power"
Mikhail Zygar
Special Correspondent, Kommersant, Moscow

14min

"Energy: A Case Study in Russia's Political Gamesmanship"
Marshall Goldman
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College former Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

19min

"Gas Trade and Politics: The Chain of Political and Economic Interests from Central Asia to the European Union"
Martha Brill Olcott
Senior Associate, Russian and Eurasian Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC

14min

"Main Current Issues in European–Russian Energy Relations"
Marshall Goldman
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College former Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

18min

"Energy: A Case Study in Russia's Political Gamesmanship"
Ferdinand Pavel
Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin Member, German Advisory Group with the Ukrainian Government, Kyiv

"The Former Soviet Union and European Energy Security: A View from Washington"
Gene Fishel
Senior Analyst, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (on leave), U.S. Department of State

35min

Discussion

Saturday, March 8, 2008
9:15 a.m. –12:00 noon

Session 3. From Producer to Consumer: Pricing Mechanisms, Transit, and Informal Institutions

44min

Chair: Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute

"Russia-Ukraine Gas Trade: From Political to Market-Based Pricing and Prices"
Andrei Konoplyanik
Deputy Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels

14min

Comments
Ferdinand Pavel
Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin Member, German Advisory Group with the Ukrainian Government, Kyiv

Martha Brill Olcott
Senior Associate, Russian and Eurasian Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC

28min

"Getting the Gas from There to Here: Transit and Transit Competition"
Christof van Agt
IEA Advisor on Caspian Affairs, Further a Field Eurasia Oil and Gas Advisory, Paris formerly Administrator, Office of Non-Member Countries, International Energy Agency, Paris

18min

Comments
Anita Orban
David Dusseault

13min

"Transition, Weak Institutions, and Intermediary Companies: Filling Gaps, Filling Pockets"
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

35min

"Plus ça change...: Continuity or Change in Intermediary Company Schemes?"
Alla Yeremenko
Senior Correspondent, Section of Economic Security, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia / Zerkalo Nedeli, Kyiv

9min

Comments
Roman Kupchinsky
Partner, AZEast Group (international consultants on Eurasian country business risk and due diligence)
former Director, Ukrainian Service, RFE/RL

30min

Discussion

12min

Concluding Remarks
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Lubomyr Hajda