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Author: Andrey Khayrullaev Title of the Thesis: EXPANSION STRATEGY OF RUSSIA'S GAZPROM INTO EUROPEAN MARKET AND EUROPEAN COUNTERACTION POLICY Year of defence: 2012 ABSTRACT In the period of globalization, energy security has substantial implications for the mutual security of supply and demand. It is dependent on several factors as security of supply, resilience and interdependence. As the result, multi-national corporations controlling wide energy resources are becoming more and more involved in the international politics - the situation when supplier is not just one of the contractual parities but "tool" for political pressure of its host state. Russian Gazprom, which operates on European natural gas market, is the vivid example of such situation. The research project is based on a deep review of relevant literature sources using the data analyzing, comparative analysis and the case study methods. The main research questions are the following: are European "fears" justified and what are the perspectives for Europe to decrease its dependency on Russian natural gas export? The main conclusions to be drawn from this study are that Europe has full grounds to be against growing dependence on Gazprom, taking into account Gazprom's involvement into politics, its aggressive actions directed toward prevention of...

Each day more and more companies choose to become international and to expand to new markets looking for bigger profits. However, many of them end up carrying big losses only because they lack a deep and detailed analysis of a new market they have chosen to expand to. Therefore, the authors of this thesis decided to conduct a deep and profound analysis of Russian public transportation market. Russia presents a fast developing economy which shows very positive development signs. Russian market became more approachable and less risky in legal terms since Russian membership in World Trade Organization in 2012. Thus, Russia can be a very interesting market to expand to. For the accuracy of the analysis it was chosen to concentrate on the public transportation sector of the market of Moscow, as this city has 12 million passengers per day and big transportation and traffic problems. It was chosen to conduct a case study and take a Veolia Transdev Company as an empirical example for the market analysis. This company was chosen due to its wide international presence and successful and sustainable growth. Now the company started to lose its grasp and lately has been experiencing financial problems. This company is not presented in Rus-sia, so it serves for this study as a potential entrant to the Russian market of public trans-portation. Hence, the analysis was conducted from the view of the company that is looking for new markets to expand to. The experience of Veolia Transdev was integrated with the market analysis conducted with a help of two models combined together: PESTEL and Porter‟s Five Forces. As a result, it was discovered that Russian public transportation market limited to Moscow area can be very profitable; it has plenty of opportunities to be exploited by international companies of Veolia Transdev‟s size and experience. As for a specific case of Veolia Transdev, company could become successful in this market with a right integration of its experience. Moreover, after the conducted research authors believe that Russian public transportation market could help Veolia Transdev‟s future financial success and could be-come one of its major profit sources. This paper provides a very descriptive analysis of Russian public transportation market limited to Moscow area for Veolia Transdev. The chosen market proved itself to be open for new entrants; to be full of different domestic and international suppliers with a low negotiation power; to have a high popularity of pub-lic transportation and poor competition from local public transportation providers.

Dmitri Shostakovich is one of the most important Russian composers of the Soviet period. Being a prolific composer, he had created a great many orchestra music and opera, as well as a substantial quantity of popular film music under the pressure of the Soviet regime. Although Shostakovich was judged crucially in one of his works in opera by Pravda in 1936, his passion still remained firm he for composition. It was only until his piano quintet finished in1940 that received the national awards, and became honored and well-known both domestically and internationally. In terms of chamber works, Shostakovich had composed one sonata each for violin, viola and cello and fifteen string quartets. His¡§Cello Sonata in D Minor, op. 40¡¨ finished in 1934. This work is subject to traditional musical form with unconventional tonality. For example, Shostakovich¡¦s use of unique harmonics and resonances, blended with lyrical melody and folk style, is so penetrative that it has become one of the most celebrated cello master pieces in Russia. This lecture-recital document includes three major discourses. The first and the second parts summarize the introduction of the background of modern Russia and the personal review of Shostakovich. The third section gives an analysis on the creation background and techniques of the ¡§Cello Sonata in D Minor, op. 40¡¨. This document will try to discuss the techniques and possible interpretations by looking into the recording by Shostakovich. Hopefully, the document can shed light onto the composer¡¦s originality.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Simon Fraser University, 2005. / Theses (Faculty of Business Administration) / Simon Fraser University. EMBA Program. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ball State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Dec. 14, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. [70]-77).