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The direct effect of the centre on political and economic development of Russia’s regions has increased significantly in recent years, with governors playing a key role in this process. Instead of representing the regional elites’ interests at the centre, as in the past, they are shifting closer towards representing the centre’s interests in the regions. A highly centralized United Russia, fiscal centralism and an increase in the centre’s control over law enforcement and the judiciary serve as the main leverage in this respect.
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C. Ross (2009). Local Politics and Democratization in Russia. Routledge, London and New York, p. 200.
The 2003 Law ‘On the General Principles of Organizing Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation’ led to the municipalities doubling in number–from 11,957 to 24,208. The first major round of elections to these new municipalities took place during the period 2004–5 and by December 2005, 198,815 deputies and 13,655 heads of local administrations had been duly elected. L. F. Dem’yanchenko (ed.) (2006). ‘Reforma Mestnogo Samoupravleniya v Rossiyskoy Federatsii: Itogi Munitsipalnykh Vyborov v 2004–2005 godakh’, Vestnik Tesntralnoy Izbiratel’noy Komissii Rossiiskoy Federatsii, vol. 2, no. 193, p. 11.
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Petrov, N. (2011). Who is Running Russia’s Regions?. In: Kononenko, V., Moshes, A. (eds) Russia as a Network State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306707_5
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