to date cyclical turning points and to measure the depth and length of the main industrial recessions in Russian Empire/USSR/Russia …

article consequences of decay of the USSR and aspects of relations of the republics of the former Union are described.  …

and leading to an increase in crime. Tensions have broken out between Georgia and Russia stemming from fears of Chechen …

This paper investigates the extent of distortions in Russia's spatial economy that are inherited from the Soviet system … allocation of population that would result in Russia, given its initial conditions and existing regional endowments, in the …

-traditional cultural values — from a comparative perspective. This paper reviews the history of natalism in the USSR and contemporary … Russia within the greater framework of modernity, by focusing on sweeping questions of ideology and geopolitics as well as …

former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that … Soviet Russia displayed job flow behaviour quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

weapons. By 2010 Russia will be an important, but not dominant, military power in Eurasia. …

This work is dedicated to questions of transformation of social needs in USSR and Russian Federation and their …