This publication offers a system of macroeconomic indicators which allow monitoring of financial stablity in the developing markets. Methodolgy used in this publication permits quarterly mnitoring of financial stability in the Russian Federation. A system of indicators with a certain degree of...

This work is aimed at revealing possibilities and conditions which will help taking into consideration in Russia's scientific and innovation policy of new circumstances related to development and widenning of horizontal relations between state, science and business and with changing role of each...

This publication is dedicated to the study of scientific schools as the mechanism of creating and disseminating knowledge. The authors investigate parameters which haracterize scientific schools and determine patterns of their development. Special attention is paid to scientific schools as...

Present work contains municipal reform implmentation results for 2007. The authors analyzed modifications in the federal legislation regarding local selfgovernance, regional legislation which regulates issues relatyed to newly created settlements in transition period. The authors analyzed...

The study analyzes the main issues of legal regulation of international intellectual property transactions. The authors review existing civil and customs legislation regulating import, export and use of licensed products on Russia’s territory, the law application practices concerning...

Government, business R&D organizations are currently publishing many short-, medium- and long-term forecasts. Herewith, the consumers of such information, as a rule are not aware of the way the estimates were made. As a result, when making a choice, which forecast should the most trustful, the...

The objective of the work is the analysis of the impact of grants, allocated from the central government budget for the expenditures of regional budgets, and the “sticker” effect, which means a traditional disproportion between the federal transfers and the amount of regional expenditure. In...

The paper presents an analysis of international and domestic practices of VAT administration in OECD countries and in Russia, according to the results of which there were identified major constraints and factors affecting the quality of VAT administration. Assessment was made in terms of...

The present study attempted to provide an answer to the question: how well the school system of education is organized in Russia and which forms are critical for changing qualitative characteristics of the system of general education. One of key research findings was the theme that the...

This paper is about the bane of the Russian economy: rich oil and gas reserves, which hamper the implementation of structural economic reforms. Oil industry forms the backbone of the Russian economy playing a major role in ensuring revenues of the government budget and the country’s favorable...