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Adrian Campbell
Adrian Campbell PhD (Brunel, 1985), Senior lecturer at Birmingham since 1989.
Elena Denezhkina
Elena Denezhkina (PhD, St Petersburg, 1990, Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham since 1991. Both authors have extensive experience of research and consultancy on Russian administrative reform.