Near complete rabies virus N gene sequences (1,110 nt) were determined for 82 isolates obtained from different regions of Russia between 2008 and 2016. These sequences were analyzed together with 108 representative GenBank sequences from 1977-2016 using the Bayesian coalescent approach. The timing of the major evolutionary events was estimated. Most of the isolates represented the steppe rabies...

The article examines an opportunity of corruption restriction exercised by international business community in Russia. Integration of Russian economy into the international business does not reduce corruption inside the country. Foreign actors investing in Russia under the condition of obtaining their required rates of returns will be reluctant to harm their investments by involving into antico...

Considering Russia’s rich and vast oil resources, this country is one of the world’s greatest producers and exporters of this nonrenewable energy resource, and like other petrostates, receives a major part of its national income in this way. The dependence of Russia’s budget on oil has raised the significance of world oil price fluctuations for this country. Since 1970s, the global oil market h...

M. V. Terekhov, V. Sen', V. Golubev, S. Weber, A. W. Scholz, T. Muenzel, A. L. Kleschyov, and L. M. Schreiber Department of Radiology, Section of Medical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation, Department of Anesthesiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center...

This paper summarizes prevalence and consequences, recent policies, prevention and cessation efforts, recent developmental work (focus groups), and speculation about the current status of cigarette smoking in the Russian Federation. Unique aspects of modern Russian society are suggested as leading to relatively high prevalence internationally of smoking among Russian males. Similar factors may ...

Sergey I. Bozhko,1,2 Sergey A. Krasnikov,1 Olaf Lübben,1 Barry E. Murphy,1 Kevin Radican,1 Valery N. Semenov,2 Han Chun Wu,1 Brendan Bulfin,1 and Igor V. Shvets1,* 1Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland 2Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka 142432, Russian Federation (R...

William T. Coffey,1 Yuri P. Kalmykov,2 Serguey V. Titov,3 and Liam Cleary1 1Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland 2Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Physique et Systèmes, Université de Perpignan, 52, Avenue de Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France 3Kotel’nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vvedenskii...

A resurgence of diphtheria spread throughout the Russian Federation in the early 1990s; diphtheria had been well controlled, but circulation of toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae had persisted since the implementation of universal childhood vaccination in the late 1950s. More than 115,000 cases and 3,000 deaths were reported from 1990 to 1997, and, in contrast to the situation in ...