Publication

The three articles in this edition of the RAD examine the often dubious benefit-sharing agreements reached between oil companies and indigenous communities in Russia’s northern territories. The texts specifically look at 1) the different types of benefit-sharing arrangements established in two Autonomous Okrugs and Sakhalin Island; 2) Lukoil’s tradition-breaking benefit-sharing and consultation agreement with Izvatas, an indigenous peoples’ association in the Komi Republic; and 3) how the benefit-sharing arrangements on Sakhalin Island, which one can describe as ‘paternalistic’ in the case of Russian oil companies and ‘partnership-oriented’ in the case of transnational consortiums, have impacted local indigenous communities.