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.