Transforming the Administrative Matryoshka: The Reform of Autonomous Okrugs in the Russian Federation, 2003–2008

“The originality of the material has allowed the authors to present a comprehensive assessment of the impact of the reform on the country’s spatial development – in the political and managerial sense, as well as in the socioeconomic and ethno-cultural sense. As such, it is the first study of its kind in Russia." Irina Busygina, Professor of Political Science, Higher School of Economics at Saint Petersburg
"There is one common thread throughout the work – and I agree with the authors’ conclusion here – and that is that the people in the autonomous okrugs affected by the changes wanted special consideration from the government, but instead disappeared from the federal agenda altogether. Clearly, Russia’s regions are extremely diverse, which makes it almost impossible to adopt a ‘one size fits all’ approach to dealing with them." Sardana Avksentyeva, 8th State Duma Deputy and 2018-21 Mayor of Yakutsk