Sovereignty after Empire
Self-Determination Movements in the Former Soviet Union
About the Author
Galina Starovoitova is a deputy in the Russian State Duma, having won a St. Petersburg single-member district in the country's December 1995 legislative elections. Starovoitova served in the Congress of People's Deputies during 198991 and was an adviser on ethnic relations to President Yeltsin until 1992. She is also co-founder of the Democratic Russia movement and was an early candidate in Russia's 1996 presidential elections. Starovoitova was a fellow in the Jennings Randolph fellowship program at the United States Institute of Peace during 199394, where she completed the research for this Peaceworks, and spent the following academic year as the Thomas J. Watson distinguished visiting professor at Brown University.