The Center–Regions Relationship: What Has Changed in Four Years of Crisis?

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The Center–Regions Relationship: What Has Changed in Four Years of Crisis?

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1. E. Grishina, “Dokhody i uroven’ bednosti v pervom polugodiii 2017,” Ekonomicheskie Razvitie Rossiii, 2017, no. 8, pp. 48–52.

2. “Indeksatsiia na 4.1%: glava Mintruda rasskazal o roste sotsial’nykh pensii,” RIA “Novosti,” November 18, 2017 (available at https://ria.ru/society/20170918/1505020259.html; accessed March 17, 2018).

3. M. Gusenko, “Dobaviat vsem,” Rossiiskaia gazeta, October 5, 2017 (available at https://rg.ru/2017/10/05/biudzhetnikam-povysiatzarplatu-v-2018-godu.html; accessed March 17, 2018).

4. K. Nikitn, “Chto ne tak s nalogovoi amnistiei,” Vedomosti, January 23, 2018 (available at https://www.vedomosti.ru/opinion/articles/2018/01/23/748623-nalogovoi-amnistiei; accessed March 13, 2018).

5. A. Kudrin, “Goroda vmesto nefti,” Vedomosti, July 20, 2017 (available at https://www.vedomosti.ru/opinion/articles/2017/07/20/724744-goroda-nefti; accessed March 17, 2018).

6. In 75 regions, the heads of large cities are no longer elected by the population but by deputies of local government bodies.

7. K. Simonov, “Kogda ekonomika neekonmna,” Vedomosti, January 16, 2018 (available at https://www.vedomosti.ru/opinion/columns/2018/01/16/747879-ekonomika-neekonomna; accessed March 13, 2018).

8. N. Zubarevich, “Geopoliticheskie prioritety v regionl’nio politike Rossii: vozmozhnosti i riski,” Kontrapunkt, 2015, no. 1 (available at http://www.counter-point.org/zub/; accessed March 13, 2018).

9. For more on the situation in Krasnoyarsk Krai, see A. Tarasov, “Sibir nuzhdaetsia v dekolonizatsii: vzgliad s beregov Eniseia,” available at http://www.counter-point.org/11_taraspv/.