The article gives an overview of Russia's official plans for the development of an international financial center (based primarily in Moscow) and attempts to promote discussions of the current status of Russia's financial institutions and what will be needed to fulfill this ambitious goal.

The interview addresses the issue of the reliability of official statistical data and the consequences of incorrect statistical estimates. The reasons for the current situation in Russian statistics are discussed.

The author criticizes existing textbooks on economics and offers her view on contemporary economic theory curricula and textbooks.

The authors present the results of their study devoted to the technological literacy of the population of Russia and society's attitudes toward it.

The article discusses the problems of restoring and developing scientific personnel potential in Russia.

The mass media frequently accuse official statistics of underestimating the inflation rate by half to two-thirds. And, as opposed to the "official" inflation, they report data on "real" inflation, which, it is claimed, reflect the true situation. The article describes the methodology by which...

Problems of the development of Russian statistics since the end of the transition period are discussed. It will be difficult to solve these problems without the active participation of the expert community, but they have become disconnected from the statistical agencies.

The article describes a series of economic reforms in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia and shows that all of them were destructive. The author suggests ending such experiments and following current integration trends.

Certain solutions in politics and economics seem self-evident, at first glance. It seems one should simply correct an obvious mistake and the world will change for the better. However, when the good deed has been done, the result may be quite far from what was expected. Reforms can only be...

The article analyzes the existing model of regulation of prices on medicines in the Russian Federation. The problems of this model are described (especially the fact that it stimulates elimination of cheaper medicines from the product range of pharmacies and pharmaceutical distributors and...