Scientists are human. As such, they are prone to bias based on political and economic interests. While conflicts of interest are usually associated with private funding, research funded by public sources is also subject to special interests and therefore prone to bias. Such bias may lead to...

The paper presents description of political context of regulatory reforms of early 2000-ties. The reforms described were finished before the oil prices hike made the business climate issue obsolete during 2nd Presidential term of President Putin. The key factors for the regulatory reforms...