The article deals with the prospects for Development of the market of electronic payment systems in the context of accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO. The authors investigate the benefits of electronic payment systems for the national economy in the context of accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO, evaluate the competitiveness of the russian market of electronic payment sys...

We report on morphological tagging of Russian using very limited Russian resources. We train the TnT tagger (Brants, 2000) on a modified Czech corpus to get the transition probabilities. We believe that the two languages are similar enough for the transitional information to be useful. The Russian emission symbols are obtained using a morphological analyzer that does not rely on a manually crea...

Department of Hematology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; Nizhniy Novgorod Region Clinical Hospital, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russian Federation; N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Center, Russian Academy of National Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation; National Cancer Center, Goyang Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea; Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germ...

S.I. Fadeev Institute of mathematic, Siberian department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 S.V. Nikolaev Institute of cytology and genetics, Siberian department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 V.V. Kogay Institute of mathematic, Siberian department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 E. Mjolsness School of Information and Compute...

Visual archetypes from Russian Orthodox iconography shaped a widely understood visual vocabulary with politically important cultural meaning. Icons derived their symbolic authority from their status in Orthodox doctrine as divinely revealed sacred truth. Although the Bolsheviks who seized power in 1917 officially denounced organized religion, revolutionary artists nonetheless recycled iconic ar...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation ("Russia") and former soviet satellite countries and republics of Central and Eastern Europe ("Soviet Bloc") have struggled with privatizing housing and establishing market-based residential mortgage systems. This thesis addresses the recent efforts of three former Soviet Bloc countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary and Polan...

We survey different strategies in the transition process, and investigate their role in growth prospects. Openness, exchange rate regimes and approaches to trade and capital market liberalisation are examined. Their role in facilitating the diffusion of new products and processes to transition economies is discussed. Policies toward openness and integration have an effect on the ability of econ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the health performance of Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa--the countries known as BRICS--has kept in step with their economic development. METHODS Reductions in age- and sex-specific mortality seen in each BRICS country between 1990 and 2011 were measured. These results were compared with those of the best-performing countries in th...

Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; Department of Internal Medicine, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russian Federation, Russia; Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust, London, UK; Cardiologie–CHU Rennes et LTSI INSERM 1099–Université Rennes-1, France; Departments of Cardiology, University of Liège Hospital, GIGA Cardiovas...

As in CLEF 2003, Berkeley experimented with the CLEF Russian Izvestia document collection with monolingual and bilingual runs for the Russian collection. For CLEF 2004 we also experimented with Chinese and Japanese as topic languages, using English as the ‘pivot’ language. For bilingual retrieval our approaches were query translation (for English as a topic language) and ‘fast’ document transla...