Sources: A.M. Best Rating Services; Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Bloomberg News; CIA World
Factbook; Control Risks; Daily Nation; GOV.UK travel advice; International Monetary Fund; Oxford
Business Group; Transparency International; World Bank
Sources for this report include: Agence France Presse, Asia Pulse, Associated Press, BBC Monitoring International Reports, Central Asia & Caucasus
Business Report, Caspian News Agency, Caspian
Business Report, CIA World
Factbook, Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, The Economist, Energy Day, The Financial Times, FSU Energy, FSU Oil and Gas Monitor, Gas Connections, Global Insight, Hart's European Fuel News, Interfax News Agency, The International Herald Tribune, International Petroleum Finance, ITAR - TASS News Agency, Mining & Metals Report, The Moscow Times, Oil and Gas Journal, Petroleum Economist, Petroleum Report, Platt's International Coal Report, Platt's Oilgram News, Polish News Bulletin, PR Newswire, Project Finance, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Reuters, RosBusinessConsulting Database, Russian Economic News, The Russian Oil & Gas Report, Turkish Daily News, Ukraine
Business Report, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of State, Warsaw
Business Journal, World Gas Intelligence, and World Markets Analysis.