But decentralizing economic decision-making carries the risk of prompting demands for political decentralization.

And political decentralization would mean the dissolution of the Communist system.

But some political decentralization is desirable in a Russia that has suffered too long under the Kremlin's iron hand.

Yet economic and political decentralization are logically linked, whatever the variety of national context.

Federalism, like states' rights, is now part of the vocabulary of political decentralization.

The tendency toward political decentralization in Russia does not present a danger to Russia or to the international community.

He sees a sort of answer to the problems here in better treatment of the Timorese and eventual political decentralization.

Linh pursued a policy of economic and political decentralization.

It has been said that political decentralization can help enable political innovation.

With greater political decentralization, he said, some of the national problems that are now plaguing Moscow will recede.