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Vello Pettai and Rein Toomla Abstract This report comprehensively analyzes political parties in Estonia, with special emphasis on the legal ramifications of party formations, the evolution of party strengths in the Estonian parliament (Riigijogu), party membership, organization and election of leaders, party structures for internal and external governance, and party staff and resources. . |



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Aesthetic Politics in St. Petersburg: Skyline at the Heart of Political Opposition
Alexei Yurchak, University of California, Berkeley
This working paper focuses on the plans to construct a skyscraper in St Petersburg, Russia, known originally as Gazprom-City and recently renamed into Okhta Center, and on the controversy that developed around these plans. The paper uses the skyscraper debates as a lens to discuss a particular "aesthetic politics" of St Petersburg, the meaning of "world cities" and "global architecture" in Russian and international contexts, post-Soviet forms of political and corporate governance, the mobilization of civic opposition to such projects and the ability of such urban protests to translate into a more unified and politically oriented opposition than has been possible in other contexts in Russia.