 With the dissolution of the Soviet Union the oblast became part of the newly independent Russian Federation.The independence of the Union Republic of Kazakhstan gave Omsk an international border to the south, while continued federal policy aiming to rectify the effects of Stalin Era population transfers a national German district created an area with a significant, although not a dominant, German population around the town of Azovo.On 19 May 1996 Omsk Oblast signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy.