The status and understanding of marketing in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia are tracked over a 40-year period, making extensive use of Russian-language sources. In the late Soviet period marketing is seen as a Western business system that was not applicable to an economy based on extreme...

Unlike most other transition economies in Europe, in Russia correlation between employment dynamics and GDP dynamics has been weak, contributing to a relatively low rate of unemployment. This article seeks to explain this phenomenon by investigating a combination of inefficient enforcement of...

The Russian Oil Fund as a tool of stabilization and sterilization (by V. Astrov, pp. 1-8) Countries covered Russia Topics Macroeconomic Analysis, Forecasts and Policy Effects of the Unified Social Tax in Russia (by A. Kuznetsov and L. Goncharenko, pp. 9-13) Countries covered Russia Topics...

China's oil policy facing the challenge of rising oil demand (by W. Urban; pp. 1-6) Keywords oil demand, economic policy, China Countries covered China Topics Energy Efficiency improvements in Russian gas-fired heat and power generation (by E. Christie; pp. 7-11) Keywords natural gas, electricity...