{"title":"Prospects for Oil and Gas Development in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast","authors":"M. J. Sagers","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640993","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the oil and gas industry of Sakhalin Oblast and its offshore areas, as well as the status of major investment projects. Sakhalin is the site of two of Russia's largest oil development projects with Western companies, both envisaged as major multibillion-dollar ventures. Both projects are described in detail, and remain contingent upon enactment in Russia's parliament of key pieces of oil legislation, most importantly a law on production sharing. The paper argues that even if such changes in Russia's legal and fiscal environment are forthcoming, the profitability of these projects remains uncertain, with actual development far from assured. 1 map, 2 tables, 11 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"274-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640993","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59718142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian-Kazakh Relations in Kazakhstan","authors":"R. Kaiser, J. Chinn","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640992","url":null,"abstract":"The development of relations between Russians and Kazakhs in Kazakhstan during the late 1980s and early 1990s is examined. Particular attention is devoted to conflicting perceptions in the post-Soviet period (among broad segments of the Russian and Kazakh populations, respectively) of Kazakhstan as a multinational vis-a-vis nation state. The impacts on the Russian population of efforts by Kazakh nationalists to restructure the system of national stratification in favor of ethnic Kazakhs are investigated within the context of interactive nationalism—whereby a Kazakh nationalist political action program engenders counter-hegemonic nationalism among the republic's Russian population. 3 tables, 43 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"257-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640992","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59718108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health Care in the Russian and Canadian North: A Comparative Perspective","authors":"H. Finkler","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640991","url":null,"abstract":"The author, a geographer specializing in the Russian North, surveys the problems confronting the “small peoples” of the North-both those arising as a result of the region's current economic transition and those persisting from the Soviet period. These include drastic reductions in state funding; falling standards of living; rising prices for basic necessities; increasing unemployment; need for additional legislative support for access to land, resources, and cultural autonomy; threats to traditional lifestyles and activities; and deterioration of the natural environment supporting those lifestyles and activities. 1 map, 1 table, 29 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"238-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640991","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59718098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Status of Indigenous Peoples in the Russian North","authors":"F. Gail","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640989","url":null,"abstract":"The chair of a roundtable session entitled “The Russian North in Transition,” the papers of which constitute this special issue of Post-Soviet Geography, outlines general theoretical and methodological issues that must be addressed in the study of change in this region of Russia. Particular attention is focused on problems of defining the Russian North and elaborating a framework for conceptualizing processes of transition in the North. In the process, the paper introduces a basic theme interwoven throughout the issue: the competition between pressures for resource development (driven by national economic priorities) and the interests of local groups in maintaining environmentally sustainable, traditional lifestyles. 3 maps, 1 diagram, 2 tables, 8 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"215-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640989","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59718044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Devolution, Constitutional Development, and the Russian North","authors":"G. Poelzer","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640988","url":null,"abstract":"A Canadian political scientist examines a broad range of issues and problems associated with the de facto devolution of decision-making power and legal authority from the Russian Federation government to the oblasts, krays, and autonomous okrugs of the Russian North. Current changes (devolution, constitutional development, regional and local political development) are examined within the context of the legacy of the Soviet system (asymmetrical federalism, developed regional/local/titular bureaucracies, and centralized bodies directing and supporting Northern development). Specific examples from the Sakha Republic and Chukchi Okrug, based on interviews and field observations, are used to illustrate basic premises. 1 map, 27 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"204-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640988","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59717980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous Political and Property Rights and Economic/Environmental Reform in Northwest Siberia","authors":"G. Osherenko","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640990","url":null,"abstract":"A Canadian political scientist examines a broad range of issues and problems associated with the de facto devolution of decision-making power and legal authority from the Russian Federation government to the oblasts, krays, and autonomous okrugs of the Russian North. Current changes (devolution, constitutional development, regional and local political development) are examined within the context of the legacy of the Soviet system (asymmetrical federalism, developed regional/local/titular bureaucracies, and centralized bodies directing and supporting Northern development). Specific examples from the Sakha Republic and Chukchi Okrug, based on interviews and field observations, are used to illustrate basic premises. 1 map, 27 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"225-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640990","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59718053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Russian North in Transition: General Introduction","authors":"M. Bradshaw","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640987","url":null,"abstract":"The chair of a roundtable session entitled “The Russian North in Transition,” the papers of which constitute this special issue of Post-Soviet Geography, outlines general theoretical and methodological issues that must be addressed in the study of change in this region of Russia. Particular attention is focused on problems of defining the Russian North and elaborating a framework for conceptualizing processes of transition in the North. In the process, the paper introduces a basic theme interwoven throughout the issue: the competition between pressures for resource development (driven by national economic priorities) and the interests of local groups in maintaining environmentally sustainable, traditional lifestyles. 3 maps, 1 diagram, 2 tables, 8 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"195-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640987","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59717973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rapidly growing towns in the former USSR and Russia, 1970-1993.","authors":"R H Rowland","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Using urban places of 15,000 or more inhabitants as its point of reference, this paper identifies and investigates the most rapidly growing towns and cities of the USSR during the recent intercensal periods of 1970-79 and 1979-89. Rapidly growing towns are defined as towns that grew by at least 50 percent overall for the intercensal period and at a rate of equal to or exceeding 4.1 percent annually. In addition, a category of 'doubling towns' is investigated, defined as towns that increased in population by at least 100 percent (or 6.3 percent or more annually). Special attention is devoted to the geographical aspects, economic functions, and size characteristics of the towns involved. Comparisons with 1959-70, an overall examination from 1959-89, and an update for contemporary Russia during 1989-93 also are undertaken.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 3","pages":"133-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22039721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Changing Geography of Russian/Soviet Naval Construction, 1890-1989","authors":"W. Walters","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640984","url":null,"abstract":"An article tracing the evolving spatial pattern of military shipbuilding during the late Tsarist and Soviet periods focuses on developments occurring within five 20-year periods from 1890 to 1989. Changing patterns of output are assessed within the context of natural site conditions and relative location of the shipyard, geopolitical developments in nearby foreign states, technological advances, proximity to markets and sites where necessary inputs are produced, locational intertia, and conditions of wartime mobilization and recovery. The situation in the industry following the disintegration of the USSR is examined as well. 5 maps, 35 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"157-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640984","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59717523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary: Regional Development of Russian Private Farms: A Comment","authors":"S. Wegren","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640985","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"176-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640985","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59717533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}