Second, Russia benefits from high commodity prices and the increasing dependence on oil and gas by Western countries. In the year 2006, Russia expected a balance of trade surplus of several billion Rubles. This has also positive effects on average salaries. As most of salaries and wages are paid without taxes (on the black market), people get gross for net salary. Instead of generating deficits...

1 Division of Experimental and Clinical Cardiology, Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases under the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Kemerovo, Russia 2 Department of Epidemiology, Kemerovo State Medical Academy, Kemerovo, Russia 3 Central Research Laboratory, Kemerovo State Medical Academy, Kemerovo, Russia 4 Department of Oncology, Cancer R...

A. Aragoneses, 2 L. Carpi, N. Tarasov, 4 D. V. Churkin, 5, 6 M. C. Torrent, C. Masoller, and S. K. Turitsyn Departament de F́ısica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08222 Terrassa, Spain Duke University, Physics Department, Box 90305, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, UK Institute for Computational Technologies...

1 Nonlinear Physics Centre and Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia 2 MQ Photonics Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, Australia 3 ITMO University, 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia 4 Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Scien...

R. M. Yulmetyev, S. A. Demin, P. Hänggi, A. I. Galeev Department of Physics, Kazan State Pedagogical University, Mezhlauk St. 1, Kazan, 420021, RUSSIA E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Department of Physics, University of Augsburg, Universitätsstrasse 1,D-86135 Augsburg, GERMANY 3 Department of Astronomy, Kazan State University, Kremlevskaya Str. 18, 420008 Kazan, RUSSIA E-mai...

BACKGROUND The official statistics of persons with mental disorders who are granted disability pension (DP) in Russia and Norway indicate large differences between the countries. METHODS This qualitative explorative hypothesis-generating study is based on text analysis of the laws, regulations and guidelines, and qualitative interviews of informants representing all the organisational element...

existence of energy reserves as god-given assets was considered as a unique opportunity for the former republics of soviet :union: , their dependence on the former center (russia) for transferring energy to the consuming markets has confronted them with various challenges. as one of these republics, turkmenistan enjoys excellent geo-economic status since a long time ago due to its huge natural ...

The current situation in Russia, the United States, the Middle East and many other countries, clearly highlights the problem of the war against terrorism. Today’s terrorism is neither desperate nor isolated. In Russia it is amply financed, well led and efficiently organized into battalions, companies, platoons and squads. The terrorist organization here in Russia includes all the essential mili...

Olga M. Tsivileva, Alexei N. Pankratov, Valentina E. Nikitina and Lidiya V. Garibova Laboratory of Microbiology and Mycology, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, 13 Entuziastov Avenue, Saratov 410049, Russia Department of Chemistry, N. G. Chernyshevskii Saratov State University, 83 Astrakhanskaya Street, Saratov 410012, Russia Depa...