Security Problems within Post-Soviet Space

Ex ante and ex post institutional convergence: Case of the post-Soviet space

The paper discusses the interaction of ex ante and ex post institutional convergence in the post-Soviet world, i.e. 12 members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. It starts with analysing empirical evidence for institutional convergence in the CIS, and then considers two channels of convergence: institutional competition for mobile capital and ex ante harmonization via interaction in pol...

Addressing Security Requirements within the SPACE System

Sammendrag/Abstract: The SPACE project developed a fully functional demonstrator of a system aimed at supporting European citizens moving between countries within the EU and the EEA. The project also established several security requirements for a production system. These are only partially addressed in the demonstrator. This paper presents these requirements and their implications as well as p...

Learning to Use ‘Public Space’: Urban Space in Post-Soviet St. Petersburg

The article discusses the post-socialist developments of urban public space in St. Petersburg, Russia. The city with a historic center protected by the UNESCO World Heritage status in combination with the Soviet legacy of lack of public participation is facing the problem of public space development. There are two controversial concepts of urban space represented in the public discourse that ar...

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

‘Situating’ Western Planning Ideas Within the Post-Soviet Realities. The Case Study of Perm, Russia

While the past several decades have witnessed major changes in urbanisation patterns across the whole world, in Russia and other post-socialist countries these changes were absolutely drastic. The abrupt transformation from the command into a market-oriented system brought dramatic changes to all spheres of life and introduced an entirely new urban context – new actors and new rules of the game...