Modern geography considers the elements of space in their complicated interaction. All types of space are overlapped, forming zones with different degree of stability (social-economical situations - SES). SES with different scales always follow a society's life and under certain conditions are...

Since the beginning of the twentieth century processes of centralization of economic and political power into the hands of the 'nomenklatura' have been taking place in Russia while in the Western capitalist countries the process of decentralization of power has accompanied economic development....