State capitalism and Russia's energy strategy in the Far East / William Partlett, Brookings, 4 Jan. 2012 http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2012/0104_russia_energy_strategy_partlett.aspx While Moscow was witnessing its largest protests in decades last month, a life and death struggle was taking place in the frigid waters of the Russian Far East. On December 18, as the Gazprom-owned Kolskaya rig was being towed across the Sea of Okhotsk to Sakhalin Island, a massive storm swept in. Facing six-m...