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Regional Executives, Russia

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Executive bodies of constituent units of the Russian Federation; Executives of constituent units (constituent entities) of the Russian Federation; Regional governments and administrations

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Each of the 85 regions (constituent units) of the Russian Federation forms its executive system, which includes the chief executive, the higher executive body, and subordinate institutions.

The chief executive is officially titled governor in the most regions (krays, oblasts, cities of federal significance, autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs), except the city of Moscow headed by a mayor. The republics’ chief officials until recently were, as a rule, styled presidents, on the analogy of the federal president. Currently they are mostly designated as heads of the republics, as the active federal legislation bans the usage of the words, composing the title of the head of the Russian state, in the titles of the regional leaders. The Republic of Tatarstan is the only constituent...

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  1. Lomonosov Moscow State University, School of Public Administration, Moscow, Russian Federation

    Ivan Leksin

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Leksin, I. (2016). Regional Executives, Russia. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2949-1

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