Political and administrative elites in Russia’s regions have changed drastically in recent years. Specifically, Moscow’s management of regional (effectively “federal-regional”) positions has expanded. With fifty to seventy branches of different federal bodies now represented across the country, federal employees outnumber regional officials two to one. […]
Memo #:
117
Series:
2
PDF:
PDF URL:
http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/pepm_117.pdf
Professor, Department of Comparative Politics; Senior Research Fellow
Affiliation
Higher School of Economics, Russia; Chatham House, UK
Expertise
Russia, Politics, Elites, Elections, Regions, Georgraphy