A new assessment of best practices in HIV/AIDS harm reduction programs in the Russian Federation was done for the World Bank by the Open Health Institute in 2006. “Harm Reduction Programs in the Civilian and Prison Sectors of the Russian Federation: Assessment of Best Practices”, provides insights into factors contributing to successful harm reduction programs. These programs are vital in helpi...

The importance of addressing problems within the housing sector for the future development of the country has become increasingly recognized by policy makers within the Russian Federation. The President of the Russian Federation, during a speech to the State Duma in December 2003, stressed the importance of tackling the challenges within the housing sector as part of the Government’s overall st...

this paper considers the spatial planning system in russian federation. study of spatial planning system of russia specifies three different stages from each other. the first phase consists of the sixteenth century until the early twentieth century. in this period, base of the spatial planning was formed and gradually developed during approximately 400 years. the next phase is devoted to soviet...

This research integrates systemic and participatory techniques to model the Russian Federation construction innovation system. Understanding this complex construction innovation system and determining the best levers for enhancing it require the dynamic modelling of a number of factors, such as flows of resources and activities, policies, uncertainty and time. To build the foundations for such ...

From the 'Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, UK; 1RCCS Maggiore Hospital, Milan, Italy; Beth Israel Hospital, Boston USA; Universitv Hospital Leiden, The Netherlands; Research Centre of Medical Genetics, Moscow, The Russian Federation; WHO, Switzerland; Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India; University of Lund, Malmö, Sweden; 'Institute of Clinical Genetics, Mosc...

We calculate electromagnetic and QCD isospin–breaking corrections to the energy level displacement of the ground state of kaonic hydrogen. Our results, calculated within a quantum field theoretic and relativistic covariant approach, agree well with those obtained by Meißner, Raha and Rusetsky within the non–relativistic effective Lagrangian approach based on Chiral Perturbation Theory by Gasser...

A dynamic process of social security reform took place during the economic transition in the Soviet Union from 1985 through 1991, and in the Russian Federation in 1992. Despite administrative and financial difficulties, the Gorbachev reform objectives have been incorporated (with modest revisions) into the Russian Federation pension legislation and family allowance programs. Following the adopt...

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,...

We calculate the rates of the radiative transitions np → 1s+γ in kaonic hydrogen and kaonic deuterium, induced by strong low–energy interactions and enhanced by Coulomb interactions. The obtained results should be taken into account for the theoretical analysis of the experimental data on the X–ray spectra and yields in kaonic atoms. PACS: 36.10.Gv, 33.20.Rm, 13.75.Jz, 11.10.Ef E–mail: ivanov@k...

Sergey Astakhov1 Oleg Astakhov2 Vladimir Astakhov3 Jürgen Kurths4 1Information Security of Automated Systems Dept., Yuri Gagarin Technical University of Saratov, Politekhnicheskaya st. 77, Saratov 410054, Russian Federation 2Department of Dynamic Modeling and Biomedical Engineering, Saratov State University, Astrakhanskaya st. 83, Saratov 410012, Russian Federation 3Radioelectronics and Telecom...