Developments in Russian Federal- Regional Relations since 2012
Year: 2020

Many features of the federal structure within the Russian Federation originate in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Following the disintegration of the USSR in 1991, the President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, held a significant public profile, and was personally linked to rapid political and economic transformations that enveloped Russia during the 1990s. In place of such political veterans, ambitious oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovskii gained in economic and political infl