Katja Yafimava
Research Fellow
Katja Yafimava joined the Institute in November 2006. She holds a D.Phil. in Geography and an M.Phil. in Russian and East European Studies from Oxford University (Corpus Christi College). The topic of her doctorate thesis was ‘The Importance of Russian Gas Transit across Western CIS Countries for EU Energy Security, 1998–2007’. She is currently working on a book ‘The Transit Dimension of EU Energy Security: Russian gas transit across Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova’ to be published by OUP in 2011. She has authored a chapter on Belarus as well as co-authored a chapter on Moldova for ‘Russian and CIS Gas Markets and their Impact on Europe’ edited by Simon Pirani and published by OUP in February 2009. She also co-authored a working paper on the January 2009 Ukrainian gas crisis as well as on the April 2010 Russian-Ukrainian gas agreement together with Simon Pirani and Jonathan Stern. She also wrote a working paper on the June 2010 Russian-Belarusian gas dispute as well as co-authored a working paper on the January 2007 Russian-Belarusian gas agreement together with Jonathan Stern. Her book ‘Post-Soviet Russian-Belarussian Relationships: the role of gas transit pipelines’ was published in March 2007. Prior to joining the Institute and in parallel with her doctoral studies, she was an intern at Shell (the Global Scenarios team) (2005) and at the Energy Charter Secretariat (Directorate for Trade and Transit) (2006).
Moldova's Gas Sector, with C. Bruce in S. Pirani (ed.), Russian and CIS Gas Markets and Their Impact on Europe,Oxford University Press, 2009.
Belarus: The Domestic Gas Market and Relations with Russia, in S. Pirani (ed.), Russian and CIS Gas Markets and Their Impact on Europe,Oxford University Press, 2009.
Post-Soviet Russian-Belarussian Relationships: the Role of Gas Transit Pipelines, Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart, 2007.
Publications
Published: 1st July 2010
| By: Katja Yafimava
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Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Energy Security, Gas, Gas Programme, Working Papers
Tags / , Belarus, Beltransgaz, Dispute, Gazprom, Methodology, NG 43, NG43, Price, Price Dynamics, Russia, Supply and Transit Contract, Trade Relations
Published: 1st June 2010
| By: Simon Pirani, Jonathan Stern, Katja Yafimava
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Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Energy Security, Gas, Gas Programme, Working Papers
Tags / , Crisis, Gazprom, Import prices, Naftogaz, NG 42, NG42, Reform, Russia, Russia-Ukraine Agreement, Storage, Trade Relations, Transit Routes, Ukraine
Published: 1st February 2009
| By: Jonathan Stern, Katja Yafimava, Simon Pirani
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Categories / Country and Regional Studies, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Energy Security, Gas, Gas Programme, Working Papers
Tags / , Dispute, Diversification, East Europe, Energy Charter Treaty, Gas Prices, Gas Routes, Gazprom, Netback Prices, NG 27, NG27, Reputation, Russia-Ukraine Crisis