The paper analyzes the social-demographic process, position in the labor market, quality of life and health of the Selkup, one of the northern Indigenous peoples of Siberia. The conclusion is that the Selkup are not pariah or outcasts in the Russian society of today. A number of their problems...

The article analyses, through a case-study approach, the processes of appearing a great number of village communities in the Russian map which had lost their major employer because of the bankruptcy happened to most reformed collective farms. The paper shows the reasons and consequences of this...

The article provides an analysis of socio-economic consequences and prospects of the modernization of Russia's agrarian sector. Based on the theory social mechanisms, the author considers the modernization as a social process of innovative transformations, and emphasizes the assessment of the...