Supplying the population with food has been and continues to be the most pressing socioeconomic problem confronting the nation. In order not to err once more in the choice of ways of solving it, we must objectively evaluate the existing situation, investment priorities, and the effectiveness...

Economic and political reforms in the nation demanded appropriate changes in economic-statistical information and the transition from indicators and methodologies that developed under the conditions of a centralized planned economy to principles corresponding to the demands of the market...

The author argues that the source of the crisis in Russia was not a crisis in the banking system, but rather a disruption of the balance of supply and demand for energy and raw material commodities in international markets, as a result of prices driven up by speculation and their subsequent...

As Comrade L. I. Brezhnev emphasized at the October (1980) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the conversion of the economy to the path of intensive development must be completed in the 1980s, and the productivity and quality of labor must be drastically increased. For all the great...

The further, consistent intensification of social production is an integral part of the long-range economic strategy of the Communist Party.

Since the situation in the region of the Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS] is very dynamic, it is important to keep a constant check on new phenomena and tendencies, the progress of initiatives, and impediments to their implementation. There is also a specific reason for returning to this...