recognition, but the need for financial support.The paper might be of interest for sociologists of science and others interested … science: its evolution, national peculiarities of grant systems, grants' influence on researchers' work and life worldwide …

Within the period of 1993-2014 Russia experienced four major electoral reforms: in 1993, 2002, 2005 and 2014. One more … cases of major electoral reforms in Russia through the veto player theory. It demonstrates that the reforms were …

This paper analyses the impact of reform and different regulation regimes on the effectiveness of procurement at a … provision has the opposite effect. Regarding delays in contract execution, the first reform has no effect and the second …

system. In 1997-2001, bureaucratic reform agenda has become one of the key priorities of the Russian government again. In … formulation and policy implementation, and accordingly, to the idea of measuring and evaluating civil service reform progress …. This paper uses the insights of policy implementation research to evaluate the dynamic of civil service reform (CSR) in …

manufacturing industry in Russia. A settlement is counted as part of an urban agglomeration in two cases: that of a large, central …

The author examines the theoretical difficulties of implementing decisions and awards of foreign courts in Russia … educational background of legal professionals – especially judges – in Russia. It is suggested that the statist conception of law … inherited from Soviet legal science implicitly leads the contemporary Russian legal doctrine of negating the obligatory force of …

Nonprofit accountability in Russia is becoming increasingly important as nonprofit organizations become more open …

assess correctly the riskiness of other banks. However, the “crises of trust” (as one in 2004 in Russia) create some doubts …