V. I. ROSSMAN

Professor of the North American University (Houston, Texas, USA), Doctor of Philosophy and Political Sciences. Senior Fellow in the Center for Energy, Natural Resources and Geopolitics (Washington, D. C.). He lectured at universities of Russia, USA, Central Europe, SouthEast Asia and Israel. Author of more than 100 research papers, including “Capital Cities”, “Looking for the Fourth Rome: Russian Debates on Relocation of the Capital City”, “Capital Cities: Varieties and Patterns of Their Development & Relocation”, “Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era”, “Two Ghosts of the 19th Century”. Member of editorial boards of several Russian and foreign journals.

Report — THE CAPITALS OF COMPROMISE AND THE PROBLEMS OF NATION - AND STATE-BUILDING