16 February 2012
Hot Off the Press: Toward a New Model of Russian Federalism: the Regional Perspective. Project Reports-2011. Second Release
The booklet carries reports based on results of the second stage of the research project "Toward a New Model of Russian Federailsm: the Regional Prospective".
The findings of a sociological survey "The State and prospects for the development of Russian federalism in the mass consciousness and expert opinion" were reviewed in May 2011.
In September and October 2011, several regional centres in the Russian Federation hosted roundtables to discuss the findings of the survey conducted as part of the project "Towards a New Model of Russian Federalism" by the ZIRCON research group and other matters related to the problem of federalism and federative relations in Russia today. The roundtables, attended by experts,local officials, representatives of non_governmental organizations and the business community were held in Nizhny Novgorod,Ivanovo, Krasnodar, Perm, Irkutsk, Vladivostok, Kazan and Petrozavodsk.
This issue of the project reports contains:
2. A summing up of informal interviews conducted as part of the study, looking at the way the problems of federalism and its prospects are perceived by members of the Russian regional elites (Andrey Zakharov).
3. An analytical review of the discussions at the regional roundtables (Andrey Ryabov).
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