Russian regionalism, policy-making and state development, Richard Sakwa; the legal substructure of market reforms in Russia - achievements and deficiencies, Alexander Trunk; the "oligarchs" - a force to reckon with? Hans-Henning Schroder; nothing learned, nothing forgotten - restructuring without reform in Russia's banking sector, William Tompson; adjustment to change - the case of the oil and gas industry, Valery Kryukov; down, out and forever desperate? The role of coal miners' protests in Russian politics, Heiko Pleines; Minatom - the last Soviet industrial ministry, Julian Cooper; the evolution of new institutions in the small business sector, Tat'yana Dolgopyatova; factors affecting entrepreneurial small businesses in Novgorod the Great, Patrick Taylor; structural change and distributional consequences in Russia's regional economies, Douglas Sutherland; the politics of Russia's regions - a comparative perspective, Vladimir Gel'man; creating social capital in Russia - the "Novgorod Model", Nicolai N. Petro; the moral embeddedness of the market - conceptualising post-Soviet transformations, Melanie Tatur; institutional legacy of the old regime as a constraint to reform - the case of fiscal policy, Gerald Easter; the subversion of democracy in Russia - an informal practice perspective, Alena V. Ledeneva.