Historical and political context / Peter Reddaway -- Key issues in the evolution of the federal okrugs and center-region relations under Putin / Robert Orttung -- North-West Federal Okrug / Alexander Duka and Peter Rutland -- Central Federal Okrug / Nikolai Petrov -- Southern Federal Okrug / Natalia Zubarevich -- Volga Federal Okrug / Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Arbakhan Magomedov -- Urals Federal Okrug / Sergei Kondratev -- Siberian Federal Okrug / Maksim Shandarov -- Far East Federal Okrug / Elizabeth Wishnick -- What do the okrug reforms add up to? / Robert Orttung and Peter Reddaway -- Interview with the Chief Federal Inspector (CFI) for the Perm Region, Nikolai Anatolevich Fadeyev.