INTRODUCTION The coverage of pediatric pertussis vaccination in the Russian Federation is high, generally using a diphtheria, tetanus, and whole-cell pertussis vaccine in a 3-, 4.5-, and 6-month primary series and with a booster at 18 months of age. However, with no registered pertussis vaccines for adults, unvaccinated adolescents and adults can be a major source of infection of infants under ...

Considering the current upward drift in farm use all over the world, the Russian agro-food market has immense possibilities to create such economic conditions under which the farming sector could develop dynamically. The increase in the grain production is of crucial importance for all agricultural branches. In this respect, the grain sector is Russia’s strategically significant economic segmen...

As a small Russian exclave some 300 kilometers away from the bulk of the Russian Federation, Kaliningrad Oblast is rarely mentioned in discussions of NATO expansion. (Kaliningrad is the Russian name of the city and oblast , or province. In German, the city now called Kaliningrad was long known as Königsberg; in Polish it was Królewiec; and in Lithuanian Karaliaucius. The Russian name will be us...

Practical application of new methods of а plant genome transformation resulted in the need for strict regulation of the safety assessment process of genetically modified organisms of plant origin, intended for use in food. The devise of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) of plant origin safety assessment system, which is currently valid in the Russian Federation, was initiated in 19951996. No...

In a Perspective, Chris Beyrer and coauthors discuss the threat of HIV to health in the Russian Federation.

Drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide after road traffic injury deaths, claiming approximately 450,000 lives every year. Overall male drowning rates in the Newly Independent States and Russian Federation are dramatically higher than the rates in Western European countries; the highest male drowning rate in WHO Euro region, drowning rate in Belarus, is 50 ...

A. O. Korotkevich, ∗ A. C. Newell, † and V. E. Zakharov 1, 5, ‡ Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, 2, Kosygin Str., Moscow, 119334, Russian Federation Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona, 617 N. Santa Rita Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, 617 N. Santa Rita Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, 53, Len...

The Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry (New York, NY, United States); Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pathology (Boston, MA, United States); Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, (Dolgoprudny, Russian Federation); Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pha...

In formerly socialist societies the state has dominated sites like museums viewed as critical for producing a national past, but in the case of the Russian Federation these same institutions often are being utilized now to critically examine the past. For many in the emerging market economy of the Russian Federation, formerly state-dominated sites like museums have become important economic res...