West Siberia – a challenging path from exploration to development: interaction between the state and regions
West Siberia – a challenging path from exploration to development: interaction between the state and regions

Summary/Abstract: West Siberia – a challenging path from reclamation to development: interaction between the state and the regions The current situation of political destabilization and economic stagnation in Russia is defined not so much by the lack of resources (in all their significance) as by lack of both consistent and coordinated interaction of the state and the regions and strategic benchmarks of economical development. This problem is particularly acute for key oil and gas production territories. The West Siberia including the Tyumen region is the focus of this research. Its objective is to determine strategical directions, conditions and factors of the West-Siberian region development. Government is the main actor in the Russian oil and gas sector. However, most of the government's efforts are focused not on increasing the efficiency of the regional development, but on maximising, in a neo-colonial form, the resource base reclamation and usage in the region, which is the main source of hydrocarbons and profit for 77 the state. The authors use the comparative analysis methods and the results of sociological survey. They substantiate the need for institutional changes to transform the strategy of reclamation into the strategy of development.

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