GRAEME GILL is an ARC Professorial Fellow and Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Sydney, Australia. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, he has published on Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics, the state, and democratization.

• Introduction: Power and the Russian Regions; G.Gill Russia's Ethnofederalism: Under-Institutionalized, Not Self-Sustaining; A.Heinemann-Gruder Federalism and Defederalization in a Country in Transition: The Russian Experience; O.Oracheva Collaborative or Hegemonic? Tatarstan and Conflicting Visions of Federalism in Putin's Russia; D.Cashaback Not So Different After All? Centre-Region Relations: A Ukrainian Perspective; K.Zimmer The Influence of Russian Big Business on Regional Power: Models and Political Consequences; R.Turovsky Economic Actors in Russian Regional Politics: The Example of the Oil Industry; J.Kusznir Russia's Northern Periphery in Transition: Regional Fragmentation of the Far North; D.Göler Conclusion: Democratization and Regional Politics; G.Gill

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