This issue of iProblems of Economic Transition/i focuses on three broad themes. The first deals with the dynamics between economics (policy and performance) and politics in Russia. In some ways, we have dealt with this topic before. The articles that come to mind focus on the content of the...

As this issue of iProblems of Economic Transition/i goes to press, the Russian government has once again suffered a major setback. This time, several senior officials and prominent reformers were sacked or demoted for their involvement in a scandal involving large ($90,000) advance payments for...

This issue of iProblems of Economic Transition/i continues our detailed examination of Russian economic policy for the 1995-97 period, begun in the January 1996 issue. In particular, this issue concludes the publication of the Russian government's Program: "Reforms and Development of the Russian...

This issue of iProblems of Economic Transition/i continues an examination of two major sets of interrelated questions: the reform debate in Russia and industrial restructuring. Serious questions of reform and direction of policy are taken up in articles that focus on conversion, foreign arms...

This issue of iProblems of Economic Transition/i focuses on two major themes: the status and reform of the labor markets in Russia and the outlook for non-Russian states in the former Soviet space, in particular the Central Asian states and Estonia. Labor market issues are critical to...

This issue of iProblems of Economic Transition/i examines two sets of extremely important questions, one of which is well-researched and the other of which has received relatively little attention. The first set of questions involves Russia's macroeconomic performance and policy issues. Russia...

This issue of Problems of Economic Transition examines the longterm trends of the Russian economy from a number of interrelated perspectives. Together the articles comprise a rather comprehensive study that should be useful to anyone interested in Russia's experience with transition to date and...

As this issue of iProblems of Economic Transition/i goes to press, an important but underappreciated political development has taken place in Moscow. In mid-October, the Russian Duma was threatening a no-confidence vote for President Boris Yeltsin's government. Among other things, the opposition...

As this issue of uProblems of Economic Transition/u is prepared, miners' strikes threaten to cripple Russia's already embattled energy sector. Conservative estimates put the number of strikers at something over 100,000, though all numbers reported are disputed by one group or another. The miners...

As this issue ioí Problems of Economic Transition/i goes to press, Russian President Boris Yeltsin has just made yet another political comeback by appointing a new, "reformist" government team to oversee the economy Observers both in Russia and in the West have devoted considerable-I would...