{"title":"New ‘USE’ Passion","authors":"T. Klyachko","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2304390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2304390","url":null,"abstract":"Late May and June is the period when high school graduates take their Unified State Exam (USE). Naturally, the USE draws more attention in this period: numerous stories about corruption relating to the USE are published in mass media, and this type of exam receives an increasing criticism","PeriodicalId":187667,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Developments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129499627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russia’s Economy in June 2013: Preliminary Data and Principal Trends","authors":"K. Rogov","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2304377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2304377","url":null,"abstract":"Escalation of socio-political tensions in July 2013 was caused by upcoming elections in various regions on September 8, 2013. The tension, in its turn, reflects general uptrend in political activity, which has been of cellular nature so far, of both common citizens and elite groups. Main collisions in July have been developing around the upcoming mayoral elections in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as municipal elections in Yaroslavl.","PeriodicalId":187667,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Developments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129960825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian Banking Sector in Q1 2013","authors":"M. Khromov","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2271075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2271075","url":null,"abstract":"In Q1 2013 the trend of slowing growth in the credit portfolio of banks was sustained. In the retail segment of credit market there was started deterioration of the Bank’s loan portfolio quality. Profitability of the banking business is getting reduced for the second consecutive quarter, which is driven by the growing deductions to reserves and higher cost of the resource base","PeriodicalId":187667,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Developments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128954702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Political and Economic Results of April 2013","authors":"S. Zhavoronkov","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2271049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2271049","url":null,"abstract":"In April 2013, rumors of the RF Government’s impending sacking suddenly became much more than simply rumors after Vladimir Putin had announced that this option was now on the table. He made that statement at a government meeting at Elista, and the corresponding footage of the event was then ‘unofficially’ displayed on the LifeNews information portal. It should be said that for some time the government had clearly been confused and dismayed by the ongoing decline in Russia’s economic growth. Moreover, the government had repeatedly caused the ire of Igor Sechin, Putin’s personal favorite and head of Rosneft, whose attempts to influence the solution of all personnel issues and to create for Rosneft some unprecedented benefits and uniquely favorable conditions had been rebuffed by a number of ministers. All those factors had apparently increased the government’s vulnerability. In April, the Russian authorities received considerable diplomatic assistance from US President Barack Obama, who refrained from including in the Magnitsky List any more or less important Russian officials. Obama’s ‘moderation’ was interpreted in Moscow as a green light to further onslaught on non-profit organizations and their across-the-board labeling as ‘foreign agents","PeriodicalId":187667,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Developments","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124871056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real Economy: Trends and Factors in Q1 2013","authors":"O. Izryadnova","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2271069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2271069","url":null,"abstract":"In Q1 2013 the slowdown of the economic growth was determined both by the decrease in the external demand by 4.6% versus the corresponding period of the previous year and the sudden weakening of the internal demand dynamics. In Q1 2013 the indices of the industrial growth and the volumes of investments in fi xed assets remained at the level of the previous year. The rates of retail trade turnover in Q1 2013 nearly halved as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year and made 3.9% while the growth rates of the real disposable incomes went up to 5.3% versus 1.6% a year ago. The level of the unemployment in Q1 2013 remained below the indices of the corresponding period of the previous year but exceeded the indices of Q4 2012","PeriodicalId":187667,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Developments","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134184838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The State Budget in Q1 2013","authors":"T. Tischenko","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2271072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2271072","url":null,"abstract":"According to the Federal Treasury, within January–March 2013, the federal budget revenues decreased by 2.1 p.p. of GDP as compared with the same period of the last year due to a reduction of oil and gas revenues by 1.8 p.p. of GDP and non-oil revenues by 0.3 p.p. of GDP. Despite the reduction in federal spending for Q1 of this year by 2.0 p.p. of GDP against the corresponding period of 2012, the federal budget defi cit has reached the limit preset by the budgetary rules in the amount of 1.0% of GDP. Signifi cant impact on the stability of the budget system of the Russian Federation continues to provide the external market factors, while at the same time the importance of domestic macroeconomic factors is increasing.","PeriodicalId":187667,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Developments","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116706779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dynamics of the Privatization and the State of Property Relations in 2012","authors":"A. Radygin, Georgiy Malginov","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2271051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2271051","url":null,"abstract":"The results of 2012 clearly pointed to the fact that the classical set of problems specifi c to the Russian privatization – justifi cation of the fair price for assets to be privatized, real motivation of the participants, determination of the criteria of selection of the buyer, ensuring of transparency and claims of regulating authorities – remain topical. Also, there has been no analysis of the potential effects of the privatization with its expediency, alternative costs, possible risks and effects on individual markets, industries, regions and the country’s economy as a whole taken into account.","PeriodicalId":187667,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Developments","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125802653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian Industry in March 2013","authors":"S. Tsukhlo","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2271109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2271109","url":null,"abstract":"The business opinion surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute in March 20131 pointed to a worsening situation for Russian industrial enterprises. As a result, industrial enterprises began to lose confidence in the correctness of their production and marketing policies, and so were trying to push their output to match demand more closely. Their sales forecasts and output plans gave no reasons to expect that Russian industry might experience a rebound in growth – even if enterprises refrained from rising prices for their products.","PeriodicalId":187667,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Developments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128932648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Russia’s Economy Should Expect from the Adoption of the Federal Law on the Advanced Research Foundation?","authors":"V. Tsymbal","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2271110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2271110","url":null,"abstract":"The recently created Advanced Research Foundation (ARF), advertized by some Russian officials as a long-awaited instrument for innovation and development of the Russian economy, is hoped to transform Russia’s defense-industrial complex into the locomotive of innovation that will be capable of pulling forward all the other branches of the economy. However, some skeptics insist that such hopes are groundless.","PeriodicalId":187667,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Developments","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115914253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Concept of Rural Cooperation Development for the Period Till 2020","authors":"R. Yanbykh","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2271111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2271111","url":null,"abstract":"The All-Russian Congress of rural cooperatives that took place on March 21, 2013 has brought to light the key problems faced by small business in agriculture – the limited access to input and credit markets and the lack of a consistent approach to the development of agricultural cooperation. Suggestions put forward by the Congress’ delegates serve as a basis for the departmental target program being worked out by the RF Ministry of Agriculture.","PeriodicalId":187667,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Developments","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115347389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}