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Nikolay Petrov
Scholar-in-Residence
  Society and Regions
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Petrov has worked at the Carnegie Moscow Center since 1996 first as a Senior Consultant and then as a Program Chair. Petrov served as chief organizer of the Analysis and Forecast Division in the Supreme Soviet (1991-1992), advisor and analyst for the Russian Presidential Administration (1994-1995), and a scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (1993-1994) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (1994). He later lectured at Macalester College in the United States. Petrov earned his Ph.D. from Moscow State University. Petrov is also a head of the Center for Political-Geographical Studies and for many years served as a senior research associate with the Institute of Geography at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Memberships:
International Geographical Union
Program on New Approaches to Russian and Eurasian Security
Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
Head of the Center for Political-Geographic Research

Publications:
Authored/co-authored 12 books, and edited/co-edited 9 books. Author of a regular column in Russia’s leading English-language newspaper, The Moscow Times.



 News and Events 
News
  17.12.2009  
Book Presentation: “Elections to Russia’s Regional Parliaments. 2003-2009: The First Cycle of the Implementation of a Proportional Representation System”
Since 2003, when changes to federal law switched elections of Russia’s regional parliaments to a system of proportional representation, 110 regional election campaigns with party lists have been conducted in Russia ...

News
  04.12.2009  
Vladimir Putin's Live Talk with the People
Carnegie Moscow Center expert Nikolay Petrov comments: “Vladimir Putin’s eighth ‘direct line’ conference on December 3, 2009, set a new record for length and the number of questions answered ...

News
  23.11.2009  
Russia and the EU: Beyond Misunderstandings
Were the last 20 years lost for partnership between the EU and Russia? How do views differ in Moscow and Brussels? Where do the two sides’ interests intersect? These and other questions were addressed by Michel Foucher, professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in Paris, member of the Council of Foreign Affairs, former director of the Analysis and Forecasting Centre of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and former French ambassador to Latvia, during a seminar at the Carnegie Moscow Center on November 23, 2009, as part of the series of Diplomatic Evenings dedicated to the Center’s 15th anniversary ...

News
  05.11.2009  
Regions of Russia in Crisis Conditions
How crisis in Russian regions has been developing in economic, financial, social, political aspects? What are the connections between social, political, and economic dimensions of the crisis in Russia? Where are crisis risks most significant? These issues were discussed at the seminar “Regions of Russia in Crisis Conditions” at the Carnegie Moscow Center on November 5, 2009, as part of the “Crisis in Russia: Regional Dimension” monitoring project ...

News
  14.10.2009  
The Consequences of Local Elections in Russia: Commentary from Carnegie Experts
The regional and local elections held on October 11, 2009, handed large majorities to United Russia, the ruling, Kremlin-backed political party. Nikolay Petrov, chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Society and Regions program, comments: “The decision on October 14 by the three minority parties in the national parliament – the Communist Party, A Just Russia Party, and LDPR – to boycott State Duma sessions until a fair investigation [into the elections] is carried out could be said to have been provoked by the Kremlin itself ...

News
  01.10.2009  
Overmanaged Democracy in Russia: The Ruling Tandem and the Economic Crisis
On September 30, 2009, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted a discussion titled “Overmanaged Democracy in Russia: The Ruling Tandem and the Economic Crisis ...

News
  09.09.2009  
Presentation of the Monitoring Project on the Crisis in Russia’s Regions
How has the crisis impacted Russia’s regions? How do regional authorities interact with the federal government? What have been the economic, social, and political consequences of the crisis in recent months? What risks and trends are on the horizon? These key issues will be addressed by a new monitoring project of the Carnegie Moscow Center, “The Crisis in Russia: the Regional Dimension ...

News
  02.07.2009  
Book Presentation of Lev Gursky’s “The Awakening of Denis Anatolievich”
What’s the role of fiction in understanding political reality? Can fiction be a tool of political analysis? These questions were discussed during the regularly scheduled seminar on Russia’s political development scenarios, which took place on July 1, 2009, at the Carnegie Moscow Center ...

News
  30.06.2009  
Crisis and Reforms in Kazakhstan
On June 30, 2009, Alexander Auzan, president of the National Project Institute – Social Contract, spoke at the Carnegie Moscow Center, presenting the project “Cooperation between State, Business and Society: A Positive Reintegration,” which was developed in 2008/2009 for the Republic of Kazakhstan ...

News
  10.06.2009  
Russian Big Business during the Global Crisis
On June 10, 2009, the Carnegie Moscow Center held a seminar entitled “Russian Big Business during the Global Crisis.” The main speaker was Yakov Pappe, chief researcher at the Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Sciences ...

 Publications 
 Working Papers 

  Nikolay Petrov, Alexander Auzan
Civil Society: Economic and Political Approaches (in Russian)
This paper presents various issues related to civil society in Russia, as well as different ways to evaluate and measure that society. Alexander Auzan’s work includes looking at civil society through the lens of neo-institutional economics, and a discussion on this theme was organized by Carnegie Moscow Center's program on Civil Society. Participants debated the validity of Auzan's "economic" position, as opposed to a more "political" approach. The main question centered on the relationship between civil society and political power, namely whether or not civil society is able to play a feedback role and to affect the political decision-making processes.

 Briefing Papers 

 Volume 8, Issue 3, April, 2006
Governors’ appointments: first year results (in Russian)


 Volume 7, Issue 09, October, 2005
Democracy in Russia’s regions (in Russian)


 Vol.6, Issue 04-05, April-May 2004
The Federation Reform and the Staffing of the Government Service


 Articles and interviews 

| 22.12.2009 |A One-Man Vote
Nikolay Petrov
The Moscow Times
| 08.12.2009 |2-Way Dialogue Once a Year
Nikolay Petrov
The Moscow Times
| 17.11.2009 |‘A’ for Rhetoric, ‘D’ for Action
Nikolay Petrov
The Moscow Times
| 27.10.2009 |Regional Dimensions: Fresh Faces in a Stale System
Nikolay Petrov
The Moscow Times
| 14.10.2009 |Digging Their Own Graves at the Polls
Nikolay Petrov
The Moscow Times
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