Russian Oil in the Far North: Culture, Companies, and Climate

Russia’s twenty-first century oil boom has had enormous implications for Russian global-politics and economics. Less frequently noted are the transformations that oil has brought to the cultural sphere in Russia. Join AKWorld and Dr. Doug Rogers to learn about some of these changes, using examples ranging from small, rural folklore ensembles to major national spectacles. Russian oil culture, it turns out, is both surprisingly similar to and yet quite different from oil culture in other oil-producing countries around the world.