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This article highlights the factors of differentiated socio-economic development by region and methodological approaches to measuring regional inequality. The analysis of the level of inequality has been implemented for three CIS countries: Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, which made it possible to identify similarities in trends of economic divergence and differences in social inequality, determined by state policy of the countries in question.
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Original Russian Text © N.V. Zubarevich, S.G. Safronov, 2011, published in Izvestiya RAN. Seriya Geograficheskaya, 2011, No. 1, pp. 17–30.
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Zubarevich, N.V., Safronov, S.G. Regional inequality in large post-soviet countries. Reg. Res. Russ. 1, 15–26 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970511010138
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