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.

Необходимость оптимизации расходов федерального бюджета в 2015 г., о которой заявило руко- водство страны, ставит, среди прочих вопросов, и вопрос об эффективности...

В регионах Северного Кавказа в первые месяцы 2013 г. оставались нерешенными основные проблемы, создающие напряженность в этом регионе. В частности, по-прежнему не...

В середине мая было создано Министерство по развитию регионов Северного Кавказа. В централизованной системе первой реакцией на то, что какая-то задача не...

In mid-May, Russia’s authorities created a new bureaucratic structure – the North Caucasus Development Ministry. The move came as no surprise: whenever a centralized system of governance is unable to resolve one or other issue, it resorts to creating a new administrative body vested with the...

In the first few months of 2013, the North Caucasus continued to be plagued by the same core unresolved issues that are the main source of tension in that region. Thus, in particular, no systemic solution has yet been provided to the ongoing conflicts in the land sphere, which are further...

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...

The necessity to optimize the federal budget expenditure targets for 2015, as declared by Russia’s authorities, has put to the fore, among other things, also the issue of government target programs for the development of Russian regions, including the regions of the North Caucasus, and the...

This paper deals with the outcome of the first year of Russia’s membership in WTO.

The ratings of economic and political institutions are well-known and widely used in the Social Science literature. These ratings are heavily relied on Experts' evaluations with subjective ordinal ranking (i.g., from -10 to 10 points). Such evaluations can be occasionally driven by ideological...