The author deals with the a wide scope of issues related to the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation. He provides an in depth analysis of the national movement as well as investment projects and local communities interest.

Conflicts and disputes related to land occur in the North Caucasus with great regularity. This is especially true of those republics in which there live many people. These conflicts are dangerous because they relate to international relations, refers to the historical memory of the people and...

This paper deals with assessment of the experience in industrial policy implementation in Russia, and a determination of the key lessons including an analysis of two examples of industrial policy – the nano-industry and the automotive industry. ?

This publication deals with the issue of innovative development. The author defines conditions which are able to promote or impede innovative development of firms in Russia, offers classification of institutional factors of innovative development of firms and corresponding set of measures which...

The privatisation wave that spread all over the world in the 1980s at last reached the shores of Russia in the 1990s and near the bastions of the administrative system it came to rest in a rather indecisive way. If in the 1980s the issue of privatisation was of real interest only for a narrow...

We use to consider Russia as a commodity state whose welfare was mainly based on extraction and export of hydrocarbons. Well, Russia has one of the biggest oil and natural gas endowments, virtually dominates at the European crude oil and natural gas markets and actively builds up export of oil...

The core events which took place last year and which are related to the issues under consideration are the approval of a new three year privatisation programme for 2014–2016, including corporate control of market transactions associated with Rosneft and Gazprom, as well as the restructuring of...

This paper deals with Russia's budgetary system

Oil and gas comprise the main sector of the Russian economy that continues to play a key role in shaping the state budget revenues and the balance of trade. In 2013, against the background of continuing high global prices for oil and gas, petroleum production in Russia reached its highest level...

This paper deals with Russia’s market for municipal and sub-federal borrowings.