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Adam Lenton
@LentonAC
PhD Candidate @GWtweets | I work on nationalism, political development in the former USSR, and Russia's ethnic republics | Grad @UniofExeter @sciencespo @mgimo
Nov 5, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Happy to share my new publication!📚

In 2010, 13 of Russia's ethnic republics had presidents, before a law required them to change the title. As of 2021, only Tatarstan's remains. What can this tell us about identity and center-region relations in #Russia? 🧵
#polisci #Eurasia Quite a lot, I suggest! For one thing, a common perception of post-Yeltsin Russia is of a dominant centralizing government and compliant regions. In reality, there's more bargaining and contestation than this suggests.