Nicolay PetrovChair of the Society and Regions Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow, Russia
Part of the European Studies Seminar SeriesNikolay Petrov is scholar in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center, where he chairs the program ‘Society and Regions.’ He also serves as a columnist for
The Moscow Times, a member of PONARS, and a member of scientific board of
The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies and of editorial board of
Russian Politics and Law. Petrov earned his Ph.D. from the Moscow State University in 1982. In 1990-1995, he served as an adviser to the Russian parliament, government, and presidential administration.
He is the author or editor of numerous publications dealing with analysis of Russia’s political regime, post-Soviet transformation, social-economic and political development of Russia’s regions, democratization, federalism, and elections, among other topics. His works include the three-volume
1997 Political Almanac of Russia(in Russian) and the annual supplements to it. He is the co-author of
Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian post-communist political reform (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004),
The Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin’s Reform of Federal-Regional Relations in two volumes (Rowman & Littlefield Publ., 2004, 2005),
Putin’s Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (Rowman & Littlefield Publ., 2010),
Overmanaged Democracy in Russia: Governance Implications of Hybrid Regimes (Carnegie papers, 2010),
Russia in 2020: Scenarios for the Future ( CEIP, 2011).
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