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Center-Regions Relations Evolution in the Russian Federation: the case of the Republic of Tatarstan in the Post-Soviet Period

Student: Evdokimova Kristina

Supervisor: Yevgeny Ivanov

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This study examines the relationship between Tatarstan and the federal center from the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union to the present day. On March 31, 1992, all republics, regions and autonomous regions signed federal treaties, except for the Republic of Tatarstan and the Chechen-Ingush Republic (self-proclaimed Ichkeria). A federal agreement with the Republic of Tatarstan was signed only in 1994 and this region was endowed with such rights as full disposal of resources and land, creation of its own system of state bodies, budgeting for the region, the right to have its own citizenship, and the right to participate in international relations. Thus, Tatarstan received a wider range of powers in its jurisdiction than issues delegated to other constituent entities of the Russian Federation. As a result, the following picture is observed: by 2020, federal treaties have been canceled with all regions of Russian Federation. But Tatarstan maintained the contractual nature of relations with the federal center longer than others - until 2017, when the version of the bilateral agreement signed by the parties in 2007 was not prolonged at the initiative of Moscow. Our task is to determine why such changes occurred in relations with the regions, and consider this in more detail using the example of the Republic of Tatarstan, which, despite the abolition of the federal treaty, retains preferences from the center in 2017.

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