Russia's regions vary by how strongly their leaderships exert administrative control over politics. Those that have lost their political competitiveness did so at different times. Using a measure of regional noncompetitiveness drawn from federal electoral results at the regional level, we...

The introduction of market mechanisms regulating the economy in the Russian Federation has led to change of spatial distribution of economic activity and further increase of regional economic development disparities. All the approaches to the regional policy declared by the Government in the...