The development of regional political and administrative elites is especially important for the states of the federal structure, which pay the closest attention to this process, since the integrity and security of this state as a whole depends on its quality. In the Russian Federation, the subjects are unequal and there is a significant asymmetry of their polities and economic potential, determined by the national and historical features of these territories. Under these conditions, local elites have different socio-economic opportunities and are forced by this circumstance to use a variety of management strategies, sometimes leading to confrontation or even conflict with each other. The task of the federal center is to prevent the growth of these conflicts and to stop them in the very initial phase of their development. How effective this policy is can be seen in the example of the qualitative state of local political and administrative elites.
