Opening of the Conference.

Falk Bomsdorf, Director of the Moscow office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

Elvira Orlova, Grants coordinator of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Rafael Khakimov, Director of Scientific Programs of the Kazan Institute of Federalism.

• Session 1. Status of the subjects of the federation
  • General Differentiation of Competence between Federation and Subjects, State System of the Subjects in the Germany
    Prof. Alexander Blankenagel, Gumboldt University, Berlin, Germany
  • Comparative Characteristic of the Constitutional and Law Status of the Subjects of the Russian Federation and the Germany
    Sergey Chernov, Dr. of Law, Dean of the Faculty of Law of the State University of Petrozavodsk, the Republic of Karelia
  • A State as a Subject of Federation: Problems of Theory and Practice
    Shakir Yagudin, PhD in Law, Head of the Legal Board of the State Council of the RT
  • Legal Status of Subject of the Federation
    Prof. Venir Samigullin, Head of the Chair of Constitutional Law of the the Bashkort State University, Bashkortostan
• Session 2. Structures of the executive authority
  • Structure of Administration in German Federative State
    Dr.Andreas Vosskuhle, director of the Institute of Social and Poitical Sciences and Philosophy of Law of the University of the name of Albert Ludwigs, Freiburg, Germany. (Presentation in German)
  • Interaction of the Government of the RF with the Government Bodies of the Subjects of the RF in Lawmaking Activity
    Aleksey Pavlushkin, PhD in Law, Institute of Law and Comparative Jurisprudence of the Government of the RF, Moscow
  • Structure of Executive Power of Public Authority of Subjects of the Russian Federation: Problems and Tendencies (Sverdlovsk region)
    Igor Kuleshov, PhD in Law, Assistant Professor of the Chair of Constitutional and Municipal Law of the Ural Academia of the State Service
  • State Administration in the Federative State
    Rustem Tarnopolsky, PhD in Law, Assistant Professor of the Chair of Constitutional and International Law of the Kazan State University

• Session 3. Financial and Tax Structure
  • Fiscal Federalism in the Germany
    Prof. Dr. Heinrich Johannes Meyer, Gumboldt University, Berlin, Germany. (Presentation in German)
  • Fundamentals of Organization of Budgetary Relations between the Center and Subjects
    Vadim Khomenko, Dr. of Economics, head of the department of economics of the Institute of Social Economical and Law Sciences of the Academy of Science of the RT
  • Perfection of Budgetary and Tax Legislation in Relation with the Reforms of Federative Relations and Local Government
    Lyudmila Pronina, Dr. of Economics, Council of the Personnel of the Committee of the State Duma of the RF on the problems of local self-government
  • Federative Economical Relations and Development of the Regions
    Guzel Singatullina, PhD in Economy, Department of Economy, Kazan State University
• Session 4. Conceptual Basis of Federalism
  • Bundestreue: the Main Principal of German Federalism
    Prof. Hartmut Bauer, Faculty of Law, Dresden University, Free State – Saxonia, Germany. (Presentation in German)
  • Correlation of Constitutional Principles of Democratic and Federative State
    Evgeniy Sultanov, PhD in Law, Asst.Prof. of the Сhair of Constitutional and International Law of Kazan State University
  • Erosion of the Federalism in Russia
    Marat Galeev, PhD in Economy, member of the Presidium of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan
  • Political and Legal Resources of Federalism in Russia
    Rafael Khakimov, Director of Scientific Programs of the Kazan Institute of Federalism

• Problems of Inter-budget Relations: Centre and Subject of Federation
  Prof. Venaly Amelin, Dr. of History, Administration Institute, Orenburg