This article calls upon policy makers in Russia to take a more robust, comprehensive approach to the design and implementation of a macroregional development policy.

This article explores the links between corruption and the choice of different strategies to guide Russia's socioeconomic development, observing that once corruption becomes an integral part of economic and social institutions it acts to distort transactions and retard development.

The article discusses the main factors and development of the global financial crisis of 2008. The downturn in one of the local sectors of the U.S. economy has caused major threats to the functioning of global financial markets. Structural problems of the Russian financial sector ("an illusion...

This article argues that the implementation of a well-chosen long-term strategy for Russia's modernization will require both political leadership and the constructive efforts of interested social groups.