Transforming the Administrative MatryoshkaThis volume delves into a key part of the comprehensive Russian administrative and territorial reform of the 2000s the merger of six previously separate ethno national regions into larger constituent entities of the Russian Federation. It deals with the accession of the Komi Permyak, Taymyr Dolgano Nenets, Evenk, Agin Buryat, and Koryak Autonomous Okrugs to the Perm, Krasnoyarsk, Zabaykalsky, and Kamchatka Krais, and of the Ust Orda Buryat Autonomous