appointments of regional officials in Russia and China before and after 2012. We hypothesize that, as a consequence of the … centralization and personalization of state power in both regimes over the past decade, Russia’s system for appointing regional … from 2000 through 2019 in Russia. We discern clear differences between the pre- and post-2012 period for China and less …

interest rates in Russia and the USA) on the MOEX Russia Index over long time interval from 2003 to 2018. The analysis of the … fundamental factors which are probably caused by the structural instability revealed earlier in Russia and other stock markets …

high-stake accountability reforms in Russia. We examine school capacity in the top-down implementation of performance …-related pay (PRP) in Russia. We consider two cases of collaboration between schools and local employers that are either highly or …