The main goal of this paper is to address the issues ofdefining and measuring the concept of ‘financial literacy’in all-Russian surveys as well as to reveal the changes inthe level of financial literacy of Russians during the pe-riod of 2008-2010. The main finding of these surveys is that the level offinancial literacy of Russians is low. During the crisis itstarted grow...

Research on global mortality has exhaustively documented a Russian mortality paradox— the phenomenon of populations of Slavic descent in experiencing higher adult mortality despite higher socioeconomic status. This study exploits Kazakhstan’s relatively heterogeneous population and geographic diversity to study ethnic differences in cause-specific mortality. After controlling for contextual dif...

Russia's economic transition in the past decade from a centrally-planned to a market-oriented economy has occurred within a dramatically changing political, social, and cultural context. The biggest shift occurred in late 1991, when more than seven decades of communist rule came to a swift end, the former U.S.S.R. was dissolved, and Russia started on a new course toward a more democratic politi...

Here, we report first results on the development of computational health information technology for monitoring chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) risks in Russia based on data of the large-scale ongoing population survey in Health Centers (HCs). The technology involve algorithms for automated raw data process and generation of joint database, tools for data standardization and visualizati...

This study investigated the perceptual properties of second language learners in acquiring second language phonemes. The case where the relation between two phonemes of a second language and those of a native language changes according to following vowels was studied. The perceptual properties of Russians with regards to Japanese fricatives were examined. In the perception test, the confusion o...

Russians experience higher adult mortality than Central Asians despite higher socioeconomic status. This study exploits Kazakhstan's relatively heterogeneous population and geographic diversity to study ethnic differences in cause-specific mortality. In multivariate regression, all-cause mortality rates for Russian men is 27% higher than for Kazakh men, and alcohol-related death rates among Rus...

When the Soviet Union collapsed, most Russians had lived their entire lives in a quintessentially authoritarian culture. Having been socialized in this environment, how could citizens acquire the attitudes and behaviors necessary to support a new, more pluralistic regime? Cultural theories of political learning emphasize the primacy of childhood socialization and hold that altering initial atti...