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Why is western Russia strongest and the east weakest?

Posted at: 2015-06-30 
Many western scholars commonly present Russia’s ‘strong state’ system as something dysfunctional that must be replaced by a western-style competitive system to be effective. They argue that such a system has a built-in tendency to become a form of personal rule, which silences the voices of important population segments, and deepens divisions within the ruling circles. As a result, the system is prone to being internally unstable and breeding future political crises.

Because Russia best brother China is sitting on the their back yard.

Major cities and hubs of industry and based in the West.

Why you thinnk so?