Fibers of characters in Harish-Chandra categories

We solve the problem of extension of characters of commutative subalgebras in associative (noncommutative) algebras for a class of subrings (Galois orders) in skew group rings. These results can be viewed as a noncommutative analogue of liftings of prime ideals in the case of integral extensions of commutative rings. The proposed approach can be applied to the representation theory of many infinite dimensional algebras including universal enveloping algebras of reductive Lie algebras, Yangians and finite $W$-algebras. In particular, we develop a theory of Gelfand-Tsetlin modules for $\gl_n$. Besides classification results we characterize their categories in the generic case extending the classical results on $\gl_2$.