This study comprises an introductory section and three essays analysing Russia's economic transition from the early … issues Russia has faced during its somewhat troublesome transformation from state-controlled command economy to market … Russia, the essay examines public infrastructure provision by Russian industrial enterprises. It is found that to a large …

, Russia. Numerous useful indicators are identified and forecast pooling of three model classes (bridge models, MIDAS models …

can claim to be among the pioneer foreign investors in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakstan and Belarus. The international financial … crisis has from September 2008 demonstrated Russia?s structural vulnerability. The comprehensive countermeasures by the … contributed strongly to an improvement of Russia?s general credit-worthiness and to a growth in foreign reserves. During the 1990s …