Table of contents : Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 About the author......Page 5 Executive Summary......Page 6 PART ONE: The 1990s and LUKoil......Page 10 1.1 Military defeats energy: Russian foreign policy in Azerbaijan in the early 1990s......Page 11 1.2 The beginning of Russian energy policy in Azerbaijan......Page 14 1.3 Energy cooperation takes priority: LUKoil’s expansion in Azerbaijan and the change of the Russian government’s attitude......Page 17 PART TWO: The 2000s and Putin’s ‘liberal empire’......Page 20 2.1 Putin’s election: the start of a new economic strategy towards Azerbaijan.......Page 21 2.2 Putin’s first visit to Baku and the expansion of LUKoil in Azerbaijan.......Page 25 2.3 LUKoil slows down: Itera, Gazprom and RAO-UES step in......Page 30 PART THREE: Russian energy policy in Azerbaijan: what next?......Page 48 Notes and references......Page 52 About the series: Russian foreign energy policy reports......Page 58