Principio unitario, elementi pattizi e multietnicità nella formazione e nell'evolzuione dell'ordinamento statale della Russia

The article analyses the centre-periphery relations during the formation and the evolution of the Russian multiethnic state identifying some elements of continuity which in the post Soviet Russia are partially expressed in a renewed tendency towards centralization and in an increasingly frequent use by the central powers of the definition of "Russian nation" instead of "Multinational state of Russia"