ABSTRACT
This chapter provides all basic political, economic, and demographic data on every territorial unit of the Russian Federation, its local government structure, regional politics and electoral history through the spring 2000 elections and the summer 2000 reorganization of the Primorskii Krai. Primorskii Krai lies in the southern part of the Russian Far East, along the coast of the Sea of Japan. It borders China and North Korea in the west and southwest and Russia’s Khabarovsk Krai in the north. The presidential administration nearly succeeded at removing Nazdratenko from power in the spring of 1997, following an energy crisis that left Primorskii Krai’s energy workers on strike and much of the population without electricity for 16 tol8-hour-long stretches per day. Primorskii Krai belongs to the Far East and Baikal Association, which includes the republics of Buryatia and Sakha; Khabarovsk Krai; Amur, Chita, Kamchatka, Magadan, and Sakhalin oblasts; the Jewish Autonomous Oblast; and the Koryak and Chukotka autonomous okrugs.
