Yevgeniy Kiselev's "Vlast" ("Power") programme on 22 December, broadcast simultaneously by RTVI Russian satellite TV abroad and Russian Ekho Moskvy, focused on the issue of energy security and the vagaries of the Russian government's energy policy.

Excerpt from report by Russian news agency Ekho Moskvy [No dateline, as received] The problems in the Russian natural gas sector are generated by lack of market economy in this sector, president of the Moscow-based think-tank Energy Policies Institute, Vladimir Milov, has told Ekho Moskvy radio.