Dr Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies &
St Antony's College

The main theme of Yeltsin’s and Putin’s eras was and has been the question of who controls the domestic oil industry: the Kremlin, Russian regional barons, or the oligarchs. The relationships between these actors have defined the evolution of the Russian political system since the collapse of the Soviet Union to the present day.