Nikolay Petrov Editor

Sergey Aleksashenko, Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University, USA Pavel Baev, Research Director and Research Professor, Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO), Norway Lev Gudkov, Director of the Levada Center, Moscow, Russia Maria Lipman, Visiting Fellow, European Council of Foreign Relations, London, UK Boris Makarenko, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Political Technologies, and Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Russia Nikolay Petrov, Professor and Laboratory Head, Laboratory for Regional Development Assessment Methods, Higher School of Economics, Russia Natalia Zubarevich, Professor, Moscow State University and Director of the Regional Program, Independent Institute for Social Policy, Russia