Staunton, June 1 – Vladimir Putin is launching a new regional policy, one so deeply centralist that “the regions will in fact lose their title of subjects of the Federation and be converted into only objects of administration from the center,” according to Vadim Shtepa, one of Russia’s leading regionalist writers. In today’s Gazeta, Shtepa […]
New Regional Policy Draft Pushing Russia Toward Hyper-Centralized ‘Post-Federalism,’ Shtepa Says
June 1, 2015