Despite the increased number of anthrax outbreaks in Georgia and the other Caucasian republics of the former Soviet Union, no data are available on the diversity of the Bacillus anthracis strains involved. There is also little data available on strains from the former Soviet Union, including the strains previously used for vaccine preparation. In this study we used eight-locus variable-number t...

This paper derives from a wider research programme on comparative performance management techniques in a range of open economic systems, which explores new and unconventional approaches to understanding complexity in modern public service organisations. The paper focuses upon performance management within the Soviet Union in its final years, a period during which the long-established command-an...

Many challenges emerged during completion of a study to examine radiation dose and acute leukemia among children in areas of the former Soviet Union. In an era of globalization, our experiences might benefit others involved in multinational investigations.

(Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia) CASE Visiting Fellow, UC Berkeley November 2008 Civil-Military Relations in Russia. Field Report Civil-military relations Civil-military relations are a very important issue for the modern Russian politics. Russia’s location and geopolitical situation required it to participate in multiple wars and conflicts over some 323 years to maintain ...

The countries emerging from the Soviet sphere of influence in the early 1990s inherited Soviet style hospital-dominated health care systems. The countries that were part of the Soviet Union, in particular, had much higher levels of provision, as assessed by numbers of hospital beds, than the countries of western Europe. This capacity has been reduced, forced in large part by shrinking health bu...

In this study we analyze transitions to first marriage in Kyrgyzstan – one of the post-Soviet states of Central Asia. We use retrospective survey data collected in 2011/12 that contain full partnership histories of a representative sample of men and women in that country. We estimate hazard regression models to examine competing risks of arranged and non-arranged marriage among Kyrgyz and Uzbek...