This paper deals with retrospective analysis of the situation that has developed in Ukraine 28 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Forecast of expected consequences and directions to overcome in the future have been given

The breakup of the Soviet Union provides evidence for the detrimental effects of secessionist conflict on domestic integration and economic growth. This paper shows that the increased likelihood of secessions by the Union's member republics in the late 1980s strongly reduced internal Union...

The breakup of the Soviet Union provides evidence for the detrimental effects of secessionist conflict on domestic integration and economic growth. This paper shows that the increased likelihood of secessions by the UnionÕs member republics in the late 1980s strongly reduced internal Union...

This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as simple and parsimonious a manner as possible. For...

Since the onset of the transformation process, there has been divergence in place as far as the speed and progress of institutional changes of the economies of the Former Soviet Union are concerned. Based on the thorough analysis of the EBRD data on attainments in institutional adjustment in...