Russia's science and technology diaspora is too visible and successful to evade attention from home. However, the public debate in Russia so far has been focused almost exclusively on return migration and on science diaspora, rather than on successful techno-entrepreneurs. The primary objective...

Decentralization has put increasing power at the disposal of regions to support conversion processes in Russia since 1992. There is, however, no clear-cut relation between the defense dependency of regions and their conversion success. Other factors, such as exports of any kind, the composition...

type="main" xml:id="ecot12047-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article conducts a plant-level study of the factors affecting foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow to a large opening economy endowed with specific factor advantages. We conclude that the distribution of FDI in Russian regions depends on...</p>

This essay discusses the reasons for some of the major problems in estimating the costs and burden of Soviet and Russian military efforts. It is argued that the traditional approaches to the topic, lacking strong systemic and institutional context, have supplied inadequate indicators. Moreover,...