EUSP researchers Alexandra Zakharova and Stepan Petryakov have received another grant from the Khamovniki Foundation to implement the project "Ethnography of Rural Governance During Municipal Reform."
The project's goal is to analyze and describe how rural governance is structured in two regions of Russia in the mid-2020s, taking into account the general political and local rural context. The aim is to understand how village residents obtain material and symbolic resources and what role the rural administration or other agents of authority play in this process.
The research will be conducted in two regions: in the south of Western Siberia (where municipal reform has been underway since 2025) and in the Northwestern region (reform since 2022–2023).
More information about the project's objectives and the planned research is available on the Khamovniki Foundation's website.