EAST SIBERIA AND FAR EAST DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIAN ENERGY EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION

Article is devoted to the state and the perspectives of Russian energy export shift from the EU to the South-East Asia direction. The geographical diversification of oil and gas export flows considering from the perspective of infrastructural and socio-economic development capacity of East Siberia and Far East regions. In its turn economic growth of Russian territories within eastern areas that goes beyond the Yenisei River in their current state and under the existing political regime directly depends on revitalization economic activities related to the fuel and energy sector in those places. The economic specialization strengthened in 2000s provides the grounds to assume that it is the Oil and Gas industry that is going to be a driver of the regional development in the East Siberia and Far East regions in the long-term period. Domestic and international politics are considering as factors of oil and gas export flows geographical diversification. On the government planning content-analysis base the interdependence between regional policy and strategies of several energy companies were identified. The causality between global industry assets migration to the East Asia with less advanced labor legislation and social policy and the rising demand on Russian Eastern regions resources has been shown. The example of domestic National Oil Companies has been provided and proves the overwhelming business line in government strategical planning.

территориальное развитие, региональная политика, Дальний Восток, Восточная Сибирь, экспорт энергоресурсов, азиатские рынки, человеческий капитал