The year 2001 concluded the first decade of post-Communist transformation, Russia’s development in a regime of market democracy. The period witnessed difficult and complex processes of the transformation of Soviet socialism into a new society. A tortuous and contradictory path gave rise to...

A detailed analysis of all crises (we shall describe them, with some qualification, as ‘systemic crises') exceeds the scope of the present article. Here, we shall highlight only some of their common features. What they have in common has nothing to do with the extent of the decline in...

A turbulent decade ended with the turbulent year of 2020. Starting with the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, the world economy and politics were in a state of unstable uncertainty, which ended with a full-scale explosion - the pandemic of a new coronavirus. The further socioeconomic...