Despite suggestions that predominantly ethnic Russian regions will pursue independence, Aleksandr Kynyev argues in a new book that no ethnic Russian region is now ready to do so because none have an elite that could make a decision to do so, although he concedes the situation could change if developments in Moscow lead to turbulence.
The much-published Moscow political scientist says that the Putin regime has destroyed the regional elites that arose in the 1990s and transformed them from groups drawn from local people and allying political and economic bodies into technocratic managers with little or no loyalty to the region (semnasem.org/articles/2024/08/07/kto-upravlyaet-regionami-kynev).
In a 656-page volume entitled Who Administers the Regions of Russia The System of Administration and Administrative Stability of the Authorities of Russian........© Eurasia Review