Leadership and Regime Change * Vladimir Putin's Leadership in Comparative Perspective--Archie Brown * Regime Change From Yeltsin to Putin: Normality, Normalcy or Normalisation?--Richard Sakwa * Political Parties and Democratisation Russia's Law on Political Parties: Democracy By Decree?--Edwin Bacon * The Putin Paradigm and the Cowering of Russia's Communists--Luke March * Russia's Disempowered Electorate--Stephen White * Economy and Society * The Economic Legacy: What Putin Had to Deal With and the Way Forward--David Lane * The Russian Economy Under Vladimir Putin--William Tompson * Politics and the Mass Media Under Putin--Laura Belin * Regional Politics * Putin's Federal Reforms--Cameron Ross * Measuring and Explaining Variations in Russian Regional Democratisation--Christopher Marsh * Regional Elections and Democratisation in Russia--Valentin Mikhailov * Foreign Policy * Russian Foreign Policy Under Putin--Dmitry Polikanov and Graham Timmins * Russian Foreign Policy towards the European Union--Jackie Gower * Russia and Chechnya--Mike Bowker * Russian Foreign Policy: The CIS and the Baltic States---Ella Akerman and Graeme P. Herd Archie Brown * Regime Change From Yeltsin to Putin: Normality, Normalcy or Normalisation?--Richard Sakwa * Political Parties and Democratisation Russia's Law on Political Parties: Democracy By Decree?--Edwin Bacon * The Putin Paradigm and the Cowering of Russia's Communists--Luke March * Russia's Disempowered Electorate--Stephen White * Economy and Society * The Economic Legacy: What Putin Had to Deal With and the Way Forward--David Lane * The Russian Economy Under Vladimir Putin--William Tompson * Politics and the Mass Media Under Putin--Laura Belin * Regional Politics * Putin's Federal Reforms--Cameron Ross * Measuring and Explaining Variations in Russian Regional Democratisation--Christopher Marsh * Regional Elections and Democratisation in Russia--Valentin Mikhailov * Foreign Policy * Russian Foreign Policy Under Putin--Dmitry Polikanov and Graham Timmins * Russian Foreign Policy towards the European Union--Jackie Gower * Russia and Chechnya--Mike Bowker * Russian Foreign Policy: The CIS and the Baltic States---Ella Akerman and Graeme P. Herd.