This article discusses the political trajectory of the Nizhnii Novgorod region from the beginning of the 1990s until the present; from the first democratic experiences to their repudiation. The author traces the main cycles of region's political developments and defines the specificity of its political system and relations with the federal center. The article looks at the evolution of the political landscape in the region from the first post-Soviet years to mature Putinism, and then explains how political controversies are reflected in the regional identity debate. It proposes an alternative to the binary vision of the 1990s as a struggle between liberal reformists and authoritarian retrogrades, rather approaching the 1990s, with Boris El'tsin's presidency and Boris Nemtsov's governorship in Nizhnii Novgorod, as a period that encompassed many of the non-democratic trends that under Vladimir Putin's regime became dominant.

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没有民主的多元主义，没有权力的垂直：从戈尔茨基到下诺夫哥罗德……再回来？

本文讨论下诺夫哥罗德地区从 1990 年代初到现在的政治轨迹；从第一次民主经验到他们的否认。作者追溯了该地区政治发展的主要周期，并确定了其政治制度的特殊性以及与联邦中心的关系。本文着眼于该地区政治格局从后苏联时代到成熟的普京主义的演变，然后解释了政治争议如何反映在地区认同辩论中。它提出了一种替代 1990 年代二元愿景的替代方案，即自由改革派和威权逆行者之间的斗争，而不是接近 1990 年代，鲍里斯·埃尔钦（Boris El'tsin）担任总统，鲍里斯·涅姆佐夫（Boris Nemtsov）在下诺夫哥罗德担任州长，