Politics and the Ruling Group in Putin’s Russia

1. What Kind of Political Regime Does Russia Have?
Hans Henning Schröder

2. The Presidentialization of a Semi-Presidential Regime: the Case of Russia
Oleg Zaznaev

3. The Russian Federal Security Service under President Putin
Eberhard Schneider

4. The Inherent Instability of the Ruling Elite
Hillel Ticktin

5. Interest Groups and Economic Reform in Contemporary Russia: Before and After Yukos
Andrei Yakovlev

6. The ‘Oligarchs’ in Russian Mass Consciousness
Alexander Chepurenko

7. Are Russia’s Oligarchs Scapegoats? Some Empirical Evidence from the Russian Press
Jakob Fruchtmann

8. Unintentional Humour in Oligarkh and Antikiller, or How New Are the ‘New Russians’?
Andrei Rogachevsky

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Political Science