DAVID CASHABACK Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, CanadaDANIEL GÖLER Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Bamberg, GermanyANDREAS HEINEMANN-GRÜDER Senior Research Analyst, Bonn International Centre for Conversion, GermanyJULIA KUSZNIR Director, Koszalin Institute of Comparative European Studies, Koszalin, PolandOKSANA ORACHEVA Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Political Governance, Russian State Academy of Civil Service, RussiaROSTISLAV TUROVSKY Lecturer, Moscow State University, RussiaKERSTIN ZIMMER Institute for Sociology, Philipps University Marburg, Germany

• 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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