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Within the Project Democratic Government in Multiethnic Communities in the CIS Countries


Local Governance and Minority Empowerment in the CIS

Local Governance and Minority Empowerment in the CIS / Edited by Valery Tishkov and Elena Filippova – Budapest, 2002. – 356 p.

Editor of MMCP Book Series “Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative”: Petra Kovacs

ISBN 963 9419 38 9, ISSN 1586-1317

Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative
Open Society Institute
Network for Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning

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Contents

Introduction to the Series
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

INTRODUCTION

Challenges for Minority Governance on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century. Valery Tishkov

PART ONE: THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Local Self-Government versus Local State Administration: Russia’s Hybrid Experience.
Valery Tishkov

Homegrown Solution: Dagestan Innovates to Address Ethnic Diversity. Enver Kisriyev

Lessons Learned from Addressing Tensions Caused by Ethnic Migration in Rostov.
Larisa Khopyorskaya

Are Minorities Left Out? State Powers and Local Self-Government in North Ossetia.
Alexander Dzadziyev and Ruslan Dzidzoyev

Local Self-Government in the Republic of Tatarstan. Rafik Abdrakhmanov

Old Elite and Soviet-style System in New Bashkortostan Stifle Representative Democracy.
Ildar Gabdrafikov and Aidar Enikeev

Ethnic Groups Dispersed in a Metropolitan Megalopolis. Vasily Filippov and Elena Filippova

Compromise and Innovation Help Mari El Address Ethnic and Local Government Issues.
Vladimir Sharov

Adygea Relies on Old Traditions to Build New Self-Governments. Tatyana Polyakova

PART TWO: CIS COUNTRIES OUTSIDE RUSSIA

Local Self-Government in the Newly Independent States. Valery Tishkov

Turbulent Past Complicates Crimea’s Minority Relations. Tatyana Senyushkina

Ethnic Factors and Local Self-Government in Tajikistan. Muzaffar Olimov and Saodat Olimova

Titular Population Has the Edge in Kazakhstan. Igor Savin

Kyrgyzstan’s Innovative Solutions to Ethnic Relations Are Insufficient. Nurbek Omuraliyev

PART THREE
Further Reading