The most obvious feature of the situation in the North Caucasus during last year was the disturbance of the fragile balance which had apparently begun to form in the preceding period, the escalation of existing conflicts and the emergence of new ones, including those related to resources. What...

This paper deals with the issues related to Russia’s military-industrial complex, military construction, defense procurements, recruitment policy, new weapons procurements

Over 2013, the population’s real disposable income rose by 3.3%. The salary level in the budget-funded sphere was being raised at a high rate – which, however, proved to be insufficient to meet the targets set in the President of the Russian Federation's Executive Order of 7 May 2012, No....

This paper deals with a wide range of issues related to housing mortgage lending in Russia.

The situation in Russia’s residential housing market over the past year was largely determined by the near-stagnation macroeconomic situation and the current phase of market development, which resulted in a multi-vectored movement of prices in the housing markets of different cities, because...

In 2013, both sudden growth in public interest in migration issues and explosive increase in the number of statutory acts initiated in that field were observed. A new surge of interest in migration was triggered by the Biryulovo developments in October and the election campaign of the Mayor of...

In 2013 the Russian economy entered a new phase of socio-economic development. The period of tempestuous development, during which the primary trends and objectives had been those of recovery and which had lasted almost twelve years (1999–2012), had come to an end. The crisis of 2009 did not...

This publication contains papers written by leading experts of the Gaidar Institute during 2003-2009. Several papers were previously published in compilations of articles written in the framework of various projects; other came out as separate articles and several papers were specially written...

Fiscal gap is an indicator of long run sustainability of government finance. It is used for assessment of the extent to which current fiscal policy is able to keep government budget solvent in the longer period. Fiscal gap is derived from intertemporal budget constraint which connects flows of...

В обзоре содержится подробный анализ основных тенденций в российской экономике в 2010 г. В работе 6 крупных разделов, посвященных отдельным аспектам развития...