Vladimir Kagansky. Post-Soviet Urals
The region around Moscow, headed by Moscow, is usually called Central (or Central Russia), in modern Russia (RF) it is completely incorrect to call it that way, because it is not located at all in the center, not in the middle of the current state, but, on the contrary, at the very western edge of the country; By the way, it is precisely to the north of it that the completely correctly named North-Western region lies. The former “Central Russia” is now Western Russia.