Federal Subjects of Russia (Alexander the Liberator)

According to the Russian Constitution, Russia comprises ninety-nine federal subjects. However, they differ in the degree of autonomy they enjoy:
 * 68 oblasts (provinces): most common type of federal subjects, with locally elected governor and legislature.
 * 17 Imperial Autonomous Regions: nominally autonomous; each is tasked with drafting its own constitution, direct-elected head of government, and parliament. IARs are allowed to establish their own official language alongside Russian but are represented by the federal government in international affairs. IARs are meant to be home to specific ethnic minorities.
 * 9 krais (territories): essentially the same as oblasts. The "territory" designation is historic, originally given to frontier regions and later also to the administrative divisions that comprised autonomous okrugs or autonomous oblasts.
 * 4 autonomous okrugs (autonomous districts): originally autonomous entities within oblasts and krais created for ethnic minorities, their status was elevated to that of federal subjects in the 1990s. With the exception of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, all autonomous okrugs are still administratively subordinated to a krai or an oblast of which they are a part.
 * 1 autonomous oblast (the Jewish Autonomous Oblast): historically, autonomous oblasts were administrative units subordinated to krais. In 1990, all of them except for the Jewish AO were elevated in status to that of a Imperial Autonomous Region.
 * 4 federal cities: major cities that function as separate regions.