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Russia’s Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics
Academic editor: Reisinger W. M.
Subnational political units are growing in influence in national and international
affairs, drawing increasing scholarly attention to politics beyond national capitals.
In this book, leading Russian and Western political scientists contribute to
debates in comparative politics by examining Russia’s subnational politics.
Beginning with a chapter that reviews major debates in theory and method,
this book continues to examine Russia’s 83 regions, exploring a wide range of
topics including the nature and stability of authoritarian regimes, federal politics,
political parties, ethnic conflict, governance and inequality in a comparative perspective.
Providing both qualitative and quantitative data from 20 years of original
research, the book draws on elite interaction, public opinion and the role of
institutions regionally in the post-Soviet
years. The regions vary on a number of
theoretically interesting dimensions while their federal membership provides
control for other dimensions that are challenging for globally comparative
studies. The authors demonstrate the utility of subnational analyses and show
how regional questions can help answer a variety of political questions, providing
evidence from Russia that can be used by specialists on other large countries
or world regions in cross-national
scholarship.
Situated within broader theoretical and methodological political science
debates, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Russian politics,
comparative politics, regionalism and subnational politics
Chapters
Akhremenko A. S., , in: Russia’s Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics.: L., NY: Routledge, 2013. Ch. 7 P. 120–140.
What is governmental effectiveness on the regional level? How can the study of regional effectiveness help us understand the performance of the political, social and economic systems of the state as a whole? These questions are very important from both the theoretical and applied perspectives, and the Russian Federation, with its huge and diverse territory, ...
Added: March 18, 2014
Turovsky R. F., , in: Russia’s Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics.: L., NY: Routledge, 2013. P. 82–101.
Russia’s party system is now a dominant-party system, as the 2011 Duma elections bore out. United Russia won for the third consecutive time, meeting Sartori’s 1976 criterion for being classified as a dominant party. United Russia’s
domination looks especially strong on the regional level since almost all governors are party members, and the same is true for the majority ...
Added: April 24, 2020
Language:
English
Кровицкая А. В., Попов Д. И., Кравченко А. А. et al., Judaic-Slavic Journal 2024 № 11-12 С. 133–186
The collective research deals with the representation of the Holocaust memory in the media of Central-Eastern and Northern Europe in the second decade of the XXI century on the example of Germany, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Each of these states, the article argues, is characterized by its own distinct memory ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Попов Д. И., Балтийский регион 2025 Т. 17 № 4 С. 68–83
The study examines the image of Russia in Finland’s historical policy in the context of the country’s accession to NATO. The aim is to identify shifts in the interpretation of Russia’s role in the Finnish political elite’s understanding of its own past, shared Russian–Finnish and global history. To this end, the analysis focuses on President ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Сравнительная политика 2025 Т. 16 № 3 С. 4–29
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Balashov D., Антиномии 2026 Т. 26 № 1 С. 27–48
The movement of effective altruism, which emerged at the beginning of the 21st century, represents a new form of utilitarian philosophy that has had a significant impact on Anglo-American philosophical thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. A key feature of effective altruism is its emphasis on practicality. The movement positions itself as an entity ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Balashov D., Человек 2026 Т. 37 № 2 С. 135–150
One of the most discussed approaches to understanding morality in science and philosophy in recent years has been the social intuitionist model of morality by the American psychologist Jonathan Haidt. The author has created a complex concept consisting of several large parts logically connected to each other, each of which deserves special attention. The first ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Kazun A. D., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2026 № 2 С. 192–215
This article examines how Russians conceptualize the groups most vulnerable to fake news. Drawing on 119 semi-structured interviews conducted in spring 2024, I find clear evidence of the third-person effect: participants believe that disinformation primarily threatens “others” who differ from them on salient dimensions. Age is the most common basis for dividing society into “us” ...
Added: May 12, 2026
Krasnyak O., Вестник МГИМО Университета 2025 Т. 19 № 2 С. 24–46
This article examines European Union science diplomacy as an instrument of external action aimed at strengthening the EU’s international actorness, strategic autonomy, and
technological sovereignty. It argues that EU science diplomacy is undergoing a significant
transformation: from a liberal-normative model centered on international scientific cooperation, soft power, and global public goods toward a more strategic and geopolitical ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Милькова А. А., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2026 Т. 20 № 1 С. 104–114
The article is devoted to strategic narratives about the international system in the foreign policy dis-course of the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping. An analysis of their evolution revealed the growing influence of Chinese political thought in shaping the modern world order, which is a topic of great academic and practical ...
Added: May 6, 2026
Kashin V., Smirnova V., Yankova A., Россия в глобальной политике 2026 Т. 24 № 3 С. 198–215
С начала 2020-х гг. КНР приступила к реализации серии мероприятий мобилизационного характера, по своей системности и размаху не имеющих аналогов в мировой практике, по крайней мере, с начала 1970-х гг., а в некоторых аспектах, возможно – со времён подготовки СССР ко Второй мировой войне. ...
Added: May 6, 2026
Федосейкин Д. И., Pomiguev I., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2025 Т. 19 № 4 С. 64–73
The budget process serves as a vivid example of the political struggle between political actors, resulting in the redistribution of public resources. It most clearly demonstrates all the features of the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches, which can be considered in a comparative perspective. One of the most interesting areas in ...
Added: May 5, 2026
Baklanov A., Актуальные проблемы Европы 2026 № 1 С. 207–233
The article analyses the current stage of development in relations between the European Union and the countries of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. These relations have a long and complex history, and today are undergoing further transformation and adaptation to the realities of the emerging multipolar world order. The article seeks to identify ...
Added: May 4, 2026
Diskin E., Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления 2026 № 1 С. 144–169
The article analyzes the introduction of the national messenger Max into the system of electronic interaction between citizens and the state in the Russian Federation. Federal Law No. 156 of June 24, 2025 established the legal framework for integrating the messenger into the unified ecosystem of government digital services, including the Unified Identification and Authentication ...
Added: May 1, 2026
Taletskii D., / Series arXiv "math". 2026.
A vertex subset of a graph is called a \textit{distance-$k$ independent set} if the distance between any two of its distinct vertices is at least $k + 1$. For all $n,k \geq 1$, we determine the minimum possible number of inclusion-wise maximal distance-$k$ independent sets among all $n$-vertex trees. It equals~$n$ if $n \leq k ...
Added: May 1, 2026
Гацковская В. А., Курбатов Д. М., Международная аналитика 2025 № 16(4) С. 158–170
The article analyzes the political discourse (including expert and media discourse) in post-socialist
Central and Eastern European countries regarding the 2024 Russian presidential election.
The authors consider the discourse on Russian electoral processes as a tool for constructing
European identity based on the “friend-foe” divide. The study aims to identify the influence of
domestic political processes in Russia on ...
Added: April 30, 2026
Ovcharenko M., / Series arXiv "math". 2026.
We introduce an explicit class of tempered Laurent polynomials in the sense of Villegas and Doran--Kerr in n⩽4 variables including all Landau--Ginzburg models for smooth Fano threefolds with very ample anticanonical class. We check that it contains Landau--Ginzburg models for various Fano fourfolds which are complete intersections in smooth toric varieties and Grassmannians of planes, ...
Added: April 30, 2026
Zhu Z., Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 2025 Vol. 19 No. 4 P. 914–932
Purpose
This paper aims to offer a systematic examination of the core challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automation via autonomous vehicles (AVs) in urban governance (UG), and to explore their implications for ethical AI governance.
Design/methodology/approach
This conceptual analytical framework is grounded in a socio-technical structure for ethical AI governance, complemented by ...
Added: April 30, 2026
Перминова А. А., Россия и современный мир 2025 № 4(129) С. 56–72
The article examines the educational dimension of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) humanitarian policy in Central Asia at the present stage. Drawing on Chinese documents, bilateral agreements, and empirical materials, it outlines the institutional, organizational, and substantive formats of China’s educational engagement with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. It demonstrates that China’s educational ...
Added: April 28, 2026
Strizhkova D., / Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН. Серия B001 "Репозиторий открытых данных по русской литературе и фольклору". 2026.
В базе данных представлена роспись русскоязычных литературных произведений и отрывков, напечатанных в учебниках по словесности, хрестоматиях, книгах для чтения, сборниках стихотворений и рассказов, выходивших во Франции, Германии, Латвии, Эстонии, Болгарии, Сербии в период первой волны русской эмиграции с 1918 по 1939 гг. Датасет представляет интерес для исследователей школьного литературного канона, эмиграции и детского чтения ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., / Basic Research Programme. Серия HUM "Humanities". 2026. № 1.
The article attempts to describe the features of the educational potential of Russian animation programmes in aspect of the representation of traditional spiritual and moral values. Based on media and semiotic analysis, the method of cultural and historical interpretation, animated Russian projects created from 2000 to the 2025, which were translated on television channels or streaming ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Zlotnik Alexander, / Series arXiv "math". 2026. No. 2602.03481v1.
We deal with the global in time weak solutions to the 1D compressible Navier-Stokes system of equations for large discontinuous initial data and nonhomogeneous boundary conditions of three standard types. We prove the Lipschitz-type continuous dependence of the solution $(\eta,u,\theta)$, in a norm slightly stronger than $L^{2,\infty}(Q)\times L^2(Q)\times L^2(Q)$, on the initial data $(\eta^0,u^0,e^0)$ in a ...
Added: April 18, 2026
Medvedev V., / Series arXiv "math". 2026.
We investigate the interplay between the dimension of the space of static potentials and the geometric and topological structure of the underlying static three-manifold. A partial classification of boundaryless static manifolds is obtained in terms of this dimension. We also treat the case of static manifolds with boundary. In particular, we prove that if a ...
Added: April 3, 2026
Gabdullin N., Androsov I., / Series Computer Science "arxiv.org". 2026.
Label prediction in neural networks (NNs) has O(n) complexity proportional to the number of classes. This holds true for classification using fully connected layers and cosine similarity with some set of class prototypes. In this paper we show that if NN latent space (LS) geometry is known and possesses specific properties, label prediction complexity can ...
Added: April 2, 2026
Chebanova D., Poretskova A., Journal of International Migration and Integration 2026 No. 4
This article examines young people’s regional and political identities after relocating from four Russian regions to Central Russia’s megalopolises, exploring how these identities interact and how relocation contexts shape this process. Grounded in an interpretivist paradigm and using phenomenological analysis, the study analyses lived experiences through in-depth interviews, resulting in an empirical model of identity ...
Added: March 4, 2026
СПб.: Скифия-принт, 2025.
The collection includes 51 articles selected based on double-blind peer review, grouped into thematic blocks corresponding to the main areas of the conference. Of particular value is the section "Contemporaries on the Era," which features personal testimonies from participants in the events. The publication reflects the current state of research on Perestroika and the 1990s, ...
Added: March 3, 2026