Gazprom's Role in Regional Politics

The Case of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Author(s): Julia Kusznir
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 1
Pages: 10-12
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2006

The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in northwestern Siberia is Gazprom's most important prospecting region, representing more than 80 per cent of the corporation's total extraction. Gazprom therefore has considerable influence in the region. Its tax payments now amount to 70 per cent of the region's budget revenues. The company has also become involved politically. Gazprom's representatives hold 36 per cent of the votes in the regional parliament. Over the past years, the company has increasingly tried to assert control over regional politics.

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