Tyumen Oblast

The End of a Decade of Quiet

Author(s): Sergey Kondratev
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 67
Pages: 14-16
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2009

Tyumen Oblast produces most of Russia's oil and natural gas and tax revenues from this output has helped provide for political stability in the region. Now, the federal government is planning to redirect these financial flows to Moscow. The loss of this income in Tyumen has the potential to reignite the tensions that divided the region in the 1990s.

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