The concept of economic security is not used in world economic science. Questions of economic security have been attracting considerable public attention in our country in recent years.>sup>1>/sup> The very concept of economic security and its criteria differ markedly for various authors.

After a long period of low rates of price increases, the 1990s were a time of high open inflation for Russia (Figure 1, Table 1). For four years in a rowâ1991 to 1994âthe annual rate of increase in consumer prices substantially exceeded 100 percent and according to preliminary estimates will...