This paper discusses the political economy behind the principal trade policy decisions in Russia since independence. I discuss why export restraints were widely employed in the early transition years and why the export quotas proved more difficult to remove than anticipated. Why it was so difficult to resolve the monetary basis for the collapse in trade among the newly independent states. Why t...

FEATURES OF THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP MODEL IN MODERN RUSSIA Reflection on political leadership is very important in the modern world. This also relevant context of contemporary Russia, especially if we take into account a number conditions affecting it. The aim article will be to trace determinants that directly and indirectly affect perception functioning taking not only issue systemic change ...

How do media affect voting behavior? What difference can an independent media outlet make in a country with state-controlled media? Our paper addresses these questions by comparing electoral outcomes and votes reported by survey respondents during the 1999 parliamentary elections in Russia for those geographical areas that had access and those that had no access to the only national TV channel ...

The aim of this paper is investigating and studying of geopolitical dimensions of Russia in the Caspian Sea. Russian post-Soviet geopolitics invokes euroasianism as its inner rationale and meaning, as a greater good that imbues pragmatic, interest based politics with a sense of mission. Eurasianism as a particular tradition of theorizing Russia’s identity and place in the world has a momentum o...

Research of the Turkic (including Asia Minor), social-political, cultural and ethnolinguistic space Eurasia is a significant long-standing tradition practical academic research centers Russia Europe, including Ukraine. The Ottoman) political legacy played an especially important role in history culture peoples Russia, Ukraine modern states. Famous states societies world (Turkish Khaganates,...

The paper considers Russian reforms within the wider debate on the advisability of shock therapy programs. The vision of political and economic processes implicit in shock therapy is analyzed and critiqued using a comparison with an alternative, evolutionary viewpoint. In Poland and Russia, shock therapy failed in its goal of implementing top-down reforms, by-passing existing political and soci...

It is common knowledge that the Democratic Russia Movement has become the first political organization able to unite the democratic forces in Russia, and thus challenge in an efficient way the political monopoly of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). However, the political and economic crises in the country have affected the success of this large organization. Cracks in its unity ha...

the military domination of russia on transoxiana imported, for the first time, the title of russian turkestan in political geography in 19 century. what belongs to this territory includes the khanate of khoqand and some regions of bukhara, and khiva. the main difference between turkestan and two other khanates  was their relationship with russia. while turkestan was incorporated to russia the t...