Assymetric Federalism and Property Rights in Russia (Research Brief)

My research focused on center-regional relations in Russia regarding important economic assets that in the 1990s were under the control of republics.

Particularly, I investigated conflicts over property that have been unfolding in the last few years between the center and the republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Sakha Republic. I interviewed business officials, journalists and local experts about the sources of these conflicts, driving motives, outcomes, and further likely developments.

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Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, of Miami University was a 2009-10 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow