show that the direction of trade matters and export to the developed countries is more likely to stimulate innovations than … export to CIS. -- …

The paper documents changes in the structure of earnings and earnings inequality in Russia during the period of …

quality might make it impossible to create in Russia an effective knowledge-based economy. …

The paper examines a problem of legitimization of the privatization's outcomes in Russia and provides a critical … evolved in Russia is not an absolute obstacle for sustainable economic growth but rather an institutional "birth trauma" which …

Russia's mortality rate has risen sharply since 1990. Most experts agree that a major cause of this has been increasing … affordability of vodka, the price of which fell by 77 percent in real terms between December 1990 and December 1994. Variation in … the affordability of vodka - both over time and across Russia's regions - closely matches variation in the death rate …