The article analyzes the results of development of railroad transportation in Russia, with an alternative assessment of the sector's material-technical base and a forecast of its development.

How do we change the Academy of Sciences and fit it into the context of the future life of Russia? The author blames the lack of success of attempts to create an efficient new system of academic science on the preservation of all the principles and defects of the Stalinist model. In his opinion,...

Since the year has not yet ended, I shall base my summary of its results on the first seven monthsthe last period for which published data were available at the time this article was written. More detailed calculations are based on the results for the first half-year. It is specifically for this...

The Russian economy has been going through an extremely grave crisis in the last few years on a scale that is unequaled in modem peacetime world economic history and that in terms of the decline of production and living standard is comparable to the rigors of wartime and the occupation of part...

The theses of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, published on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, point out that, thanks to the planned development of the national economy, conditions are being created within the socialist society for the...

The colossal failure of the attempt at the radical reform of the Russian economy in 1992 compels us to look for more carefully thought-out avenues of transition to the market. To be sure, it is unclear whether we still have time to find and realize such avenues. But this will nevertheless remain...

Today's Russian entrepreneurs are appreciably inferior in their managerial competence not only to Western ones but even to Soviet managers. Only in 1994 did the better entrepreneurs of Russia, having suffered serious financial and sales problems, begin to instill rudimentary order in their firms...

For about sixty years all Soviet economists and historians have celebrated the demise of NEP as socialism's greatest victory. You could count advocates of the opposite point of view on your fingers. The situation has changed in the last two or three years. The press today is for the most part...

The interview addresses the issue of the reliability of official statistical data and the consequences of incorrect statistical estimates. The reasons for the current situation in Russian statistics are discussed.