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"Belarus relies on Russia for about 85 per cent of its total energy needs, while Russia needs Belarus' oil and gas pipelines to export its supplies to Western Europe. How will energy exports from Russia and Belarus' transit capabilities impact Western Europe if this interdependent relationship ends, either through political changes in Belarus or if Russia ends its energy subsidies to Belarus? This report looks at transit, infrastructure and investment issues and analyzes both the state of the current infrastructure, as well as the possibilities this transit opens to Western investors, particularly as the Yamal Pipeline nears completion. In addition, it looks at the current conflict between Belarus and Russian investors for control of the country's gas transit system and oil refineries. It is part of the ""Russian Foreign Energy Policy Report"" series."

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'These reports represent a valuable and important contribution to the ongoing debate about Russian energy and foreign policy.' -- Ross McCracken, Editor Platts Energy Economist

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Margarita M. Balmaceda is tenured Associate Professor at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, New Jersey, and an Associate of Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She received a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University (1996), and Post-Doctoral training at Harvard University. She has published widely on Russian, post-Soviet and East European energy and foreign policies. Fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian and German, she has also studied, taught, and conducted field research on energy and foreign policy issues in Russia, Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus and Germany. Dr. Kevin Rosner, PhD is a specialist in Russian oil and gas, security of critical energy infrastructure, and international energy security policy. He served as the 2006 Co-Director of the NATO Forum on Energy Security. He is a Senior Fellow, both at the UK Defence Academy and at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) in Washington DC. Posts held include Senior Security Advisor to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline company, Project Director with the Programme on Cooperation with the Russian Federation at the OECD, and Project Manager with the UNESCO Science Division in Paris. Dr. Rosner is the founder of Therosnergroup(R), serving leading members of the global oil and gas community with energy and security analytical products.

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