Carnegie Moscow Center

This paper offers an analysis of elites changes in the spatial organisation of the power ministries as they were affected by the federal reform. The main hypothesis is that Federal okrug administrations were introduced to break the ties binding the regional and federal levels of siloviki and at the same time create bridgehead from which to establish supervision over all the levels.

Russia's attitude toward weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear proliferation, activities in the field of arms transfers, and its role in its post‐Soviet neighborhood, will largely define Russia's international position in the beginning of this century.