Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appears paradoxically to have revitalized the European project. The EU, marked by a recent history of disunity, now seems to have found unity against an external threat. This study seeks to examine whether the war has helped mend the geographical and political...

The impact of organized crime on inter-regional price disparities in Russia is estimated for each year from 1992 to 2000, and over the panel of 1993-2000, using a sample of 70 Russian regions, and that of 50 regions from the European part of the country. The relationship between prices and crime...