Toward a New Model of Russian Federailsm: the Regional Perspective

The Project was dedicated to the most complicated and urgent problems of contemporary Russian society which have social, economic, political, legal and ethnocultural dimensions. The project was meant to explore the current state and the prospects of Russian federalism as one of the key conditions for enforcement and development of democracy in Russia. The project task was to develop a regulatory model of Russian federalism and recommendations for its practical implementation based on the analysis of the Russian regions' positions and the processes currently taking place in the public sphere where relations between civil society and political authority are being realized.

The Project was carried in 2010-2012 by the Gorbachev Foundation with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Research papers and reports relating to the project were posted on the website "Toward a New Model of Russian Federailsm: the Regional Perspective"

Project Coordinators

Olga Zdravomyslova (Doctor of Philosophy), Andrei Ryabov (Doctor of History), Pavel Palazhchenko (The Gorbachev Foundation)