Mark Galeotti, Russia’s Wars in Chechnya

Was Stalin Necessary for Russias Economic Development?

This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a two-sector growth model to compute sectoral TFPs as well as distortions and wedges in the capital, lab...

The Impact of Soviet Policy on Female Sufis in Chechnya

The Tactics of Insurgent Groups in the Republic of Chechnya

The current situation in Russia, the United States, the Middle East and many other countries, clearly highlights the problem of the war against terrorism. Today’s terrorism is neither desperate nor isolated. In Russia it is amply financed, well led and efficiently organized into battalions, companies, platoons and squads. The terrorist organization here in Russia includes all the essential mili...

Slice wars vs dose wars in multiple-row detector CT.

he short answer is yes. At this oint in time, it seems that the soalled slice wars with regard to the umber of slices provided per comuted tomographic (CT) gantry roation may be reaching a plateau. At he same time, increasing concerns bout radiation dose due to CT exminations are fueling the efforts to educe radiation dose and leading o the beginning of the so-called ose wars. Since 1998, there...

فرایند دریافت E- Mark

با گسترش روزافزون صنعت حمل‌و‌نقل درجهان و ارتقای استانداردها، تدوین و اجرای استانداردهای بین‌المللی، یک امر ضروری به‌نظر می‌رسد. E- Mark یک مجموعه قانون‌های هماهنگ بین‌المللی برای خودرو و قطعه‌های آن است که تمامی تولیدکنندگان وسیله‌های نقیله و قطعه‌ها ملزم به رعایت آن هستند. تولیدکنندگان تایر نیز از این امر مستثنی نیستند و باید برای تایرهای خود این مجوز را دریافت کنند. در این مقاله روش دریافت E...