One of the most important reasons for crisis state modern Russia is low level managerial training government officials. The obvious way to overcome this situation improve quality education graduates relevant universities. author, considering theory manage as a generalizing discipline whole complex subjects focused on qualified managers, focuses educational literature in area. Based detailed ana...

The phenomenon of crony capitalism has been explored primarily with reference to its impact on economic growth. This study investigates the political implications of crony capitalism and, specifically, the interaction between political competition and crony capitalism. Based on a case study of political trajectories in two regions of the Russian Federation, I argue that under crony capitalism p...

The study of Russian émigré writing has been a vibrant academic fi eld for almost three decades, yet the dominant critical reception of these texts remains today suff used with the glasnost-era rhetoric of a “grand return”: the diaspora is described in terms of a “branch” or “tributary” destined to merge with twentieth-century Russian literature of the homeland.1 Émigré writers are routinely co...

The overall rich body of literature dealing with first language acquisition has been concerned, to a very large extent, with the unpacking of the notion “acquisition” into a set of simpler, smaller notions. This unpacking should eventually lead us to understanding smaller problems and hopefully, eventually build into the larger picture of language acquisition altogether. In this brief survey, I...