Objectives that have been highlighted as central to the current phase of the reform are to broaden the authority of presidential envoys, to facilitate economic improvement, to promote local self-government and to support measures that will strengthen civil society. We are studying the process through which these objectives are being pursued at the regional level and analyzing the near-term implications of these initiatives. Our research regions illustrate several notable divergences among Russia’s regions. One is an ethnic republic (Tatarstan). Two are donor regions (Sverdlovsk and Tatarstan) and two recipient regions (Smolensk and Voronezh).
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Lynn D. Nelson, of Virginia Commonwealth University, was a 2002-03 Short-Term Travel Grants [8] fellow.
