Technology and Vocational Educational Reform in the Russian Federation

Fiscal Federalism in the Russian Federation: Problems and Reform Options*

Poverty in the Russian Federation

This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the opinion of the individual, rich or poor,...

Mental health reform in the Russian Federation: an integrated approach to achieve social inclusion and recovery.

OBJECTIVE To facilitate mental health reform in one Russian oblast (region) using systematic approaches to policy design and implementation. METHODS The authors undertook a three-year action-research programme across three pilot sites, comprising a multifaceted set of interventions combining situation appraisal to inform planning, sustained policy dialogue at federal and regional levels to ca...

Pan morphology, Distribution and formation in Kazakhstan and Neighbouring areas of the Russian federation

  In northern Kazakhstan and neighbouring parts of the West Siberian Plain of Russia is one of the world’s biggest concentrations of pans. The area has thousands of them. Landsat imagery and Google Earth images indicate their distribution within this semi-arid area and their forms and associated lunette dunes. Many of the pans, most of which are small, wet and shallow, show a characteristic sha...

conflict of law in the russian federation

tant en :union: soviétique qu’en russie nouvelle, le conflit de lois constitue la partie essentielle et en même temps la plus complexe du droit international privé. a la fin du xxe siècle, des changements substantiels et fondamentaux se sont produits dans ce domaine. cette évolution est soumise à l’influence, d’une part, des facteurs universels qui concernent la communauté internationale et, d’...