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W hen Russia became independent in 1992, it inherited from the Soviet Union a spatial distribution of its population that was incompatible with its emerging market economy. Internally the largest migration stream has been out of the overpopulated Russian north and Far East toward central Russia. At other geographic scales, as a result of decades of Soviet labor policy, there were numerous citie...

We study the (parameterized) complexity of SHIFT BRIBERY for multiwinner voting rules. We focus on the SNTV, Bloc, k-Borda, and Chamberlin-Courant, as well as on approximate variants of the Chamberlin-Courant rule, since the original rule is NP-hard to compute. We show that SHIFT BRIBERY tends to be significantly harder in the multiwinner setting than in the single-winner one by showing setting...

T HE formation of layers in a positive column is a widespread phenomenon known already to the pioneers of gas-discharge physics. This first manifestation of the instabilities which are so abundant in plasma has given rise to many contradictory opinions concerning its causes. The reviewsc1-31 summarizing the extensive material accumulated during the century-old history of the study of striations...

This paper analyses the role of S&T policy in the adjustment and restructuring of the Russian S&T system in the post-Soviet period. The principal argument is that the adjustment of the S&T system in Russia has been evolving between the ‘preservation of S&T potential’, its restructuring, and survival strategies developed by researchers and R&D organisations. The interaction of these factors expl...

I study how regional populations respond to local labor demand shifts by quantifying how the collapse of Finnish-Soviet trade in early 1990s affected regional working-age populations in Finland. I identify local labor demand shifts by using regional variation in the production of goods that were exported from Finland to Soviet Union. I find that the more local employment focused on the producti...

This paper compares the institutions and goals of the USSR, the EU, and the CIS to understand the differing origins and competing tendencies of these alternative models of transnational governance. It then projects those models through history to examine the current relationships of the former Soviet Republics to the EU and the United States. Understanding the historical sources and development...

It has been observed in the past that, at the time of Mikhail Gorbachëv‟s ascension to power following the death of his predecessor Konstantin Chernenko in 1985, few people believed that the Soviet Union was heading for collapse; merely reform (Bartlett, R. (2005:278)). Thus the question begs; what changed over the next five years to bring one of the world‟s two superpowers to the point of utte...