The article covers the basic directions of development of railroad transportation in Siberia and the Far East: railroad service for export and import freight traffic, construction of new railroads, and so on. It is shown that an increase in the region's transit possibilities is occurring under...

Based on extensive statistical data, the authors analyze economic development and processes of environmental change in regions of the Siberian Federal Okrug. They find considerable inequality in the distribution of economic results and the concomitant environmental load, and they assess some...

This article examines the influence of economic freedom on the wider area of institutional performance. In particular, it examines a relatively neglected dimension of correlation between economic freedom and corruption. While economic freedom has been studied from the perspective of its...

The article discusses the evolution of informal employment in the Russian labor market over the past decade. It uses all of the consecutive waves of the Labor Force Survey conducted by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service in 1999-2009.

The author argues that the essence of an up-to-date investment policy consists in a long-term economic development strategy in which all spheres participate on an equal footing.

The author examines trends in the distribution of wages, business incomes, and social benefits in 2009 and estimates the distribution of per capita household incomes across various social groups. Distinctive characteristics of the Russian economy are revealed. These predetermine that, in the...

The authors use mainly data from the European Social Survey carried out in 2008 to compare Russian basic values and the values of the thirty-one other European countries as measured by the Schwartz Portrait Values Questionnaire.

The reserves of peat (a cheap and substantial source for renewal of energy resources) in Siberia are enormous and are directly underfoot, at the surface. However, the development of the region's peat resources is almost nonexistent today. Only in Central Russia have plans been made to exploit...

Based on socioeconomic monitoring, the influence of construction of hydroelectric power plants on the development of the regions in which they are located is shown. The public has mixed feelings about the effect of construction of large energy facilities on the economy, the standard of living,...

The article analyzes the results of surveys of the employees at a Russian firm before and after reorganization.