MOSCOW, May 22. /TASS/. The Arctic's port and industrial regions demonstrate higher resilience to external economic and logistical shocks compared to resource-rich niche areas, Deputy Chair of the Council for Study of Productive Forces (the Ministry of Economic Development), Deputy Chair of the Public Council under the Ministry of Natural Resources, Adviser to Director of the Ministry of Natural Resources' Institute of Ecology, Professor at the Mining Institute of the MISIS University of Science and Technology Svetlana Lipina told TASS.
"The Yamalo‑Nenets Autonomous Region is a classic export-focused rental economy: hydrocarbons account for a big share of GRP and budget revenues. This generates high incomes in "good" years, but makes the region very sensitive to energy prices, sanctions, and logistical disruptions. The Murmansk Region and Yakutia have more diversified structures: Murmansk has ports, fishing, shipbuilding/repair, the defense sector and transit; Yakutia has mining (diamonds, gold, coal), partly - processing, and agriculture on a local scale. These sectors redirect risks, although they are anyway exposed to external demand," she said.
The expert pointed to differences in resistance to the sanctions pressure. Most vulnerable are regions focused on hydrocarbons export, while more diversified economies demonstrate greater flexibility, she said.
