Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not those of the Economics Education and Research Consortium. Research dissemination by the EERC may include views on policy, but the EERC itself takes no institutional policy positions

This paper reports in summary the main points that emerged in a Russian Academy of Sciences workshop on regional charters which took place in Mosco w on March 13-17, 1995 . The author concludes : Relations between Russia's federal subjects and Moscow remain largely a power struggle, flavored by varied interpretations of constitutionality interpretations that the powers that be in Moscow are onl...