Europe's economy.

II. Challenge " However, the problem of the political consequences of the Russo-European "energy dialogue", of course, wider. The natural task of our European partners is so vitally important to them, Russia's energy resources have not been capitalized as its political resources and could serve as a lever for self geostrategy. Draft energopoliticheskoy desuverenizatsii, which is the base for the EU "energy dialogue" with the East, was considered by experts under the sign of several major threats. 1. Requirements "greater access" to the extraction of Russian energy resources, demands of different forms of direct or international control over the national deposits. The corresponding pressure is long, but still keeps a kind of mutual neutrality. On the one hand, the EU and the U.S. blocked the admission of Russian companies on the internal market and prevented the wholesale resellers purchasing privatized transport infrastructure in Eastern Europe (Hungary, Czech Republic) and the former USSR (Ukraine). On the other hand, the Russians are not allowed foreign companies to develop Russian oil fields. Today, this balance is disturbed interference. There appeared the first serious signs of opening previously inaccessible to the commodity market in Russia without a commensurate penetration Russian players on the European market of transit and processing. All attempts by Gazprom to participate in the privatization of Eastern European gas distribution networks were strongly suppressed by the Commission of the European Union, and President Bush during his last visit to Georgia is not explicitly recommended that its government had agreed to make a deal to sell gas pipeline to Gazprom. Meanwhile, inside Russia Gazprom loses its monopoly status of gas production, creating precedents of mining parity with German partners. This natural process and will be continued, because the whole co-operation projects with Gazprom - as well as gestures of political support for Vladimir Putin - regarded by the German side only in the perspective of the expected changes in property relations. Given forsiruemuyu liberalization shares the concern, this moment is not far off. U.S. retaliatory response to the Russia-Germany's "gas" the friendship has been the unprecedented statement by U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow, who expressed, on behalf of American companies interested in guaranteed access to gas reserves in the long term in exchange for technology for the production of liquefied natural gas capacity its reception and regasification. The main issues of concern to Western companies - how to be regulated by registration of western mining companies in Russia and how it will be granted access to the strategic stocks are still "minority" shareholders (such as the American ConocoPillips), intending to become strategic investors. According to the experts - participants of the seminar, the American package of requirements - including American companies access to Russia's oil fields as a priority and the right construction of private pipelines - has already been agreed and adopted by the Russians. The desire of major players to get "greater access" to Russia's oil fields has become a tradition. However, similar requests are made from a variety of unexpected corners of the Western world, which generally allows us to speak about the beginning of the long-term campaign for the internationalization of Russian natural resources. For example, in the course of WTO negotiations, Norway, is not formally a member of the EU, has demanded control of the pipeline infrastructure, Australia - access to Russia's mineral resources. In the end, was signed in Moscow a bilateral agreement with Norway on the conditions of Russia's accession to the WTO in conjunction with the framework agreement on cooperation in the energy sector. Today, two Norwegian companies - Statoil and Hydra - are admitted to participate in the development of Shtokman gas field. Russia's leadership has assured Western partners that it has elected Norway's strategic partner in this area and talked about "common shared responsibility for the management of oil and gas resources in the Barents Sea."