Bulletin n. 2/2011 | ||
October 2011 | ||
Kynev Aleksandr |
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Unattainable Symmetry | ||
in Russian politics and law , vol. 49, n. 4, July-August , 2011 , 18-31 | ||
The author considers the underlying motives and variable results of efforts in the 2000s to amalgamate certain regions. He identifies three scenarios for the relationship between amalgamated regions and ethnic territories that have lost autonomous status. He concludes that the federation has become not less but even more asymmetrical. | ||