Interest Representation and Social Policy Making: Russian Veterans’ Organisations as Brokers between the State and SocietyFootnote

We are deeply indebted to Professor Vladimir Gel’man for his insights, comments and suggestions on the manuscript, as well as to two anonymous reviewers of the essay. The research was funded by the Finnish Center of Excellence ‘Choices of Russian Modernisation’, administered by the Aleksanteri Institute of University of Helsinki and the Center for Modernization Studies of the European University at St Petersburg.

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