Rent-seeking in the regions - the politics of property rights protection in St Petersburg, Lev Savulkin, Andrei Zaostrovtsev; rent-seeking in the regions - the politics of economic privilege in Kaliningrad, Nataliia Smorodinskaia; rent-seeking in the regions - bureaucracies and administrative barriers, Andrei Shastitko, Andrei Tsyganov; resource rent and regions - the case of Komi, Pavel Krotov; resource rent and regions - the case of the West Siberian oil and gas complex, Anastas'ia Sevastianova; Moscow - administrative moloch or gateway for globilization?, Leonid Vardomskii; Moscow and the central economic area - analysis of the lack of linkage, Akira Uegaki; Russian regional political institutions in the context of globilization and regionalization, Irina Busygina, Nataliia Zubarevich; a cross-regional comparison of cleavage patterns, actors' autonomy and regime outcomes, Vladimir Gel'man; the dynamics of interregional co-operation, competition and conflict, Andrei Makarychev; regional, sectoral and state actors in Ukraine - the struggle against hard budget constraints, Andreas Wittkowsky; actors and internationalization in Ukraine - if winners take all. who goes global?, Elena Kovaleva.
