TOWNS OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA: TRANSFORMATION OF LOCAL ELITES
The article considers transformation of structure of Russian town executives. The author gives the analysis reason and local elite renewal capacity. The author believes that each electoral cycle led new cohort of leaders to town. The reasons, according to the author, are in the internal regional/subregional relations and mainly in foundations, methods and technics of selection of chief executives, depending by federal center and on various - horizontal and direct - informal practices.