Russia: Strategy, Policy and Administration

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This book examines how Russia, the world’s most complicated country, is governed. As it resumes its place at the centre of global affairs, the book explores Russia’s overarching strategies, and how it organizes itself (or not) in policy areas ranging from foreign policy and national security to health care, education, immigration, science, sport, agriculture, the environment and criminal justice. The book also discusses the structures and institutions on which Russia relies in order to deliver its goals in these areas of national life, as well as what’s to be done, in policy terms, to improve the country’s performance in its first post-Soviet century. Edited by Irvin Studin, the book includes contributions from a tremendous list of Russia’s leading thinkers and specialists, including Alexei Kudrin, Vladimir Mau, Alexander Auzan, Simon Kordonsky, Fyodor Lukyanov, Natalia Zubarevich and Andrey Melville. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction: Ten Theses on Russia in the Twenty-First Century (Irvin Studin)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 The Principles and Goals of the Russian State in the Twenty-First Century (Alexei Kudrin, Vladimir Mau)....Pages 17-29 Russian Political Ideology (Andrei Melville)....Pages 31-41 The Future of Russia’s Institutions (Alexander Auzan)....Pages 43-55 Russian Federalism (Irina Busygina)....Pages 57-64 The North Caucasus (Irina Starodubrovskaya)....Pages 65-73 The Social Structure of Russia (Simon Kordonsky)....Pages 75-85 Political Parties and Parliament (Alexander Kynev)....Pages 87-96 Russian Media (Ilya Kiriya)....Pages 97-103 Religion and the Russian Orthodox Church (Boris Knorre)....Pages 105-112 Russian Civil Society (Irina Mersianova)....Pages 113-119 Front Matter ....Pages 121-121 Russian Foreign and Defence Policy (Fyodor Lukyanov)....Pages 123-133 Russia’s Arctic Strategy (Alexander Sergunin, Valery Konyshev)....Pages 135-144 National Security (Dmitry Baluev)....Pages 145-154 International Economic Policy (Natalya Volchkova)....Pages 155-167 Fiscal and Monetary Policy (Sergey Drobyshevsky, Georgiy Idrisov, Sergey Sinelnikov-Murylev, Pavel Trunin)....Pages 169-181 Industrial and Innovation Policy (Yuri Simachev, Mikhail Kuzyk)....Pages 183-194 Infrastructure and Transportation (Mikhail Blinkin)....Pages 195-204 Energy and Natural Resources (Valeriy Kryukov)....Pages 205-215 Education (Tatiana Klyachko)....Pages 217-228 Health Care (Sergey Shishkin)....Pages 229-239 Food and Agriculture (Svetlana Barsukova)....Pages 241-255 Population and Migration (Vladimir Malakhov, Mark Simon)....Pages 257-268 Environment (Sergey Bobylev)....Pages 269-279 Science (Irina Dezhina)....Pages 281-293 Sport (Andrey Adelfinsky, Valery Anashvili)....Pages 295-306 Culture (Vitaly Kurennoy, Rouslan Khestanov)....Pages 307-317 Family Policy (Sergei Zakharov)....Pages 319-330 Criminal Justice (Leonid Kosals, Sergey Pavlenko)....Pages 331-338 Front Matter ....Pages 339-339 The Bureaucracy (Vladimir Yuzhakov, Elena Dobrolyubova)....Pages 341-352 The Judicial System (Sergey Pashin)....Pages 353-365 Regional and Local Government (Natalia Zubarevich)....Pages 367-380 State Corporations (Viktor Dementiev)....Pages 381-391 Back Matter ....Pages 393-412