Federal and regional policies and the timber industry during the 1990s (on the materials of Karelia)
The article analyzes the influence of the central and regional authorities in the development of the regional timber industry complex, the author demonstrated the causes of crisis in regional forest economy of the analyzed period. The author speaks of paternalistic way of control and lack of legislative support of the institutional environment, which prevented regional authorities to defend the interests of the regional timber industry enterprises. The author has shown that the decision of the major problems of the timber industry complex of Karelia in the 1990s. was in fact impossible without the support of the federal center.