About the Book:Introduction: Power and the Russian Regions; G.Gill Russia’s Ethnofederalism: Under-Institutionalized, Not Self-Sustaining; A.Heinemann-Gruder Federalism and Defederalization in a Country in Transition: The Russian Experience; O.Oracheva Collaborative or Hegemonic? Tatarstan and Conflicting Visions of Federalism in Putin’s Russia; D.Cashaback Not So Different After All? Centre-Region Relations: A Ukrainian Perspective; K.Zimmer The Influence of Russian Big Business on Regional Power: Models and Political Consequences; R.Turovsky Economic Actors in Russian Regional Politics: The Example of the Oil Industry; J.Kusznir Russia’s Northern Periphery in Transition: Regional Fragmentation of the Far North; D.Gler Conclusion: Democratization and Regional Politics; G.Gill