Explaining political and economic change in post-Soviet Russia -- Presidents and parties: leadership and institution-building in post-communist Russia -- Russia's gubernatorial elections: a postmortem -- Back to the future? Thoughts on the political economy of expanding state ownership in Russia -- Shortcut to great power: Russia in pursuit of multipolarity -- Presence of absence: ethnicity policy in Russia -- Political parties under Putin: party-system development and democracy -- Rule-of-law factor -- Ukraine: improbable democratic 'nation-state', but possible democratic 'state-nation'? -- Explaining European Union aid to Russia

1. Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
2. Political leadership -- Russia (Federation
3. Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)