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Spatial Integration of Siberian Regional Markets
Munich Personal RePEc Archive Spatial Integration of Siberian Regional Markets Gluschenko, Konstantin Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk State University 2 April 2018 Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/85667/ MPRA Paper No. 85667, posted 02 Apr 2018 23:10 UTC Spatial Integration of Siberian Regional Markets Konstantin Gluschenko Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEIE SB RAS), and Novosibirsk State University Novosibirsk, Russia E-mail address: [email protected] This paper studies market integration of 13 regions constituting Siberia with one another and all other Russian regions. The law of one price serves as a criterion of market integration. The data analyzed are time series of the regional costs of a basket of basic foods (staples basket) over 2001–2015. Pairs of regional markets are divided into four groups: perfectly integrated, conditionally integrated, not integrated but tending towards integration (converging), and neither integrated nor converging. Nonlinear time series models with asymptotically decaying trends describe price convergence. Integration of Siberian regional markets is found to be fairly strong; they are integrated and converging with about 70% of country’s regions (including Siberian regions themselves). Keywords: market integration, law of one price; price convergence; nonlinear trend; Russian regions. JEL classification: C32, L81, P22, R15 Prepared for the Conference “Economy of Siberia under Global Challenges of the XXI Century” dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the IEIE SB RAS; Novosibirsk, Russia, June 18–20, 2018. 1. Introduction The national product market is considered as a system with elements being its spatial segments, regional markets. -
Survey of Land and Real Estate Transactions in the Russian Federation
36117 V. 1 Public Disclosure Authorized Foreign Investment Advisory Service, Project is co-financed by the a joint service of the European Union International Finance Corporation in the framework of the and the World Bank Policy Advice Programme Public Disclosure Authorized SURVEY OF LAND AND REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION CROSS-REGIONAL REPORT Public Disclosure Authorized March 2006 Public Disclosure Authorized Survey of Land and Real Estate Transactions in the Russian Federation. Cross-Regional Report The project has also received financial support from the Government of Switzerland, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco). Report is prepared by the Media Navigator marketing agency, www.navigator,nnov.ru Disclaimer (EU) This publication has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of its authors and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. Disclaimer (FIAS) The Organizations (i.e. IBRD and IFC), through FIAS, have used their best efforts in the time available to provide high quality services hereunder and have relied on information provided to them by a wide range of other sources. However they do not make any representations or warranties regarding the completeness or accuracy of the information included this report, or the results which would be achieved by following its recommendations. 2 Survey of Land and Real Estate Transactions in the Russian Federation. Cross-Regional Report TABLE OF -
Confirmed Soc Reports List 2015-2016
Confirmed State of Conservation Reports for natural and mixed World Heritage sites 2015 - 2016 Nr Region Country Site Natural or Additional information mixed site 1 LAC Argentina Iguazu National Park Natural 2 APA Australia Tasmanian Wilderness Mixed 3 EURNA Belarus / Poland Bialowieza Forest Natural 4 LAC Belize Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System Natural World Heritage in Danger 5 AFR Botswana Okavango Delta Natural 6 LAC Brazil Iguaçu National Park Natural 7 LAC Brazil Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Natural Emas National Parks 8 EURNA Bulgaria Pirin National Park Natural 9 AFR Cameroon Dja Faunal Reserve Natural 10 EURNA Canada Gros Morne National Park Natural 11 AFR Central African Republic Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park Natural World Heritage in Danger 12 LAC Costa Rica / Panama Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad Natural National Park 13 AFR Côte d'Ivoire Comoé National Park Natural World Heritage in Danger 14 AFR Côte d'Ivoire / Guinea Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve Natural World Heritage in Danger 15 AFR Democratic Republic of the Congo Garamba National Park Natural World Heritage in Danger 16 AFR Democratic Republic of the Congo Kahuzi-Biega National Park Natural World Heritage in Danger 17 AFR Democratic Republic of the Congo Okapi Wildlife Reserve Natural World Heritage in Danger 18 AFR Democratic Republic of the Congo Salonga National Park Natural World Heritage in Danger 19 AFR Democratic Republic of the Congo Virunga National Park Natural World Heritage in Danger 20 AFR Democratic -
Coal Industry of East Siberia - Prospects for Development
E3S Web of Conferences 77, 03001 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf /2019770300 1 Regional Energy Policy of Asian Russia 2018 Coal industry of East Siberia - prospects for development Liudmila Takaishvili*, and Aleksander Sokolov, Melentiev Energy Systems Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia Abstract. The paper presents the analysis of the current state of coal industry in East Siberia: coal production, processing and delivery. The coal reserves are characterized. The deposits promising for coal production development are presented. The possibilities of increasing coal production and export are studied. The projects on the development of deposits are evaluated. The promising areas for using East Siberian coals, which determine the prospects for coal production development, are described. 1 Introduction The coal industry occupies an important place in the resource provision of East Siberia and has a high social significance as a mainstay industry of coal production entities of the federation. Coal plays a leading role in the energy balance of East Siberia. In the European regions of the Russian Federation (RF) the main type of fuel for thermal power plants is gas, in Siberia and the Far East – coal. In the structure of fuel consumption by the federation entities of East Siberia its share amounts to more than 70%, whereas in the country as a whole the coal share is 16%. In addition, coal consumption decreases both in the country and East Siberia. East Siberian coals are consumed in the regions of coal production, supplied to other regions of Russia and for export. An export component in coal supplies increases. -
Lake Baikal (Russian Federation) (N 754)/ Lac Baïkal (Fédération De Russie) (N754)
World Heritage 30 COM Patrimoine mondial Paris, 5 May / mai 2006 Original: English / anglais Distribution limited / limitée UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES POUR L'EDUCATION, LA SCIENCE ET LA CULTURE CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE CONVENTION CONCERNANT LA PROTECTION DU PATRIMOINE MONDIAL, CULTUREL ET NATUREL WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE / COMITE DU PATRIMOINE MONDIAL Thirtieth session / Trentième session Vilnius, Lithuania / Vilnius, Lituanie 08-16 July 2006 / 08-16 juillet 2006 Item 7 of the Provisional Agenda: State of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List and/or on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Point 7 de l’Ordre du jour provisoire: Etat de conservation de biens inscrits sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial et/ou sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial en péril REPORT OF THE JOINT UNESCO-IUCN REACTIVE MONITORING MISSION RAPPORT DE MISSION DE SUIVI REACTIF CONJOINTE DE L’UNESCO ET DE L’IUCN Lake Baikal (Russian Federation) (N 754)/ Lac Baïkal (Fédération de Russie) (N754) 21-31 October 2005 / 21-31 octobre 2005 This mission report should be read in conjunction with Document: Ce rapport de mission doit être lu conjointement avec le document suivant: WHC-06/30.COM/7A WHC-06/30.COM/7A.Add WHC-06/30.COM/7B WHC-06/30.COM/7B.Add 1 World Heritage Centre – IUCN Joint Mission to Lake Baikal World Heritage Property MISSION REPORT Reactive Monitoring Mission to Lake Baikal Russian Federation 21 – 31 October 2005 Pedro Rosabal (IUCN) Guy Debonnet (UNESCO) 2 Executive summary Following previous World Heritage Committee’s discussions on the State of Conservation of this property and, prompted by reports that works on a new oil pipeline started in May 2004 within the boundaries of the property, the World Heritage Committee at its 29th session (Durban, South Africa) requested a new monitoring mission to the property. -
COMMISSION DECISION of 21 December 2005 Amending for The
L 340/70EN Official Journal of the European Union 23.12.2005 COMMISSION DECISION of 21 December 2005 amending for the second time Decision 2005/693/EC concerning certain protection measures in relation to avian influenza in Russia (notified under document number C(2005) 5563) (Text with EEA relevance) (2005/933/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, cessed parts of feathers from those regions of Russia listed in Annex I to that Decision. Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, (3) Outbreaks of avian influenza continue to occur in certain parts of Russia and it is therefore necessary to prolong the measures provided for in Decision 2005/693/EC. The Decision can however be reviewed before this date depending on information supplied by the competent Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991 veterinary authorities of Russia. laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from third countries and amending Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC (1), and in particular Article 18(7) thereof, (4) The outbreaks in the European part of Russia have all occurred in the central area and no outbreaks have occurred in the northern regions. It is therefore no longer necessary to continue the suspension of imports of unprocessed feathers and parts of feathers from the Having regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December latter. 1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries (2), and in particular Article 22 (6) thereof, (5) Decision 2005/693/EC should therefore be amended accordingly. -
A Captive Island Kaliningrad Between MOSCOW and the EU
41 A CAPTIVE ISLAND KAlInIngRAD bETWEEn MOSCOW AnD ThE EU Jadwiga Rogoża, Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga, Iwona Wiśniewska NUMBER 41 WARSAW JULY 2012 A CAPTIVE ISLAND KALININGRAD BETWEEN MOSCOW AND THE EU Jadwiga Rogoża, Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga, Iwona Wiśniewska © Copyright by Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia / Centre for Eastern Studies CONTENT EDITORS Adam Eberhardt, Marek Menkiszak EDITORS Katarzyna Kazimierska, Anna Łabuszewska TRANSLATION Ilona Duchnowicz CO-OPERATION Jim Todd GRAPHIC DESIGN PARA-BUCH CHARTS, MAP, PHOTOGRAPH ON COVER Wojciech Mańkowski DTP GroupMedia PuBLISHER Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia Centre for Eastern Studies ul. Koszykowa 6a, Warsaw, Poland Phone + 48 /22/ 525 80 00 Fax: + 48 /22/ 525 80 40 osw.waw.pl ISBN 978–83–62936–13–7 Contents KEY POINTS /5 INTRODUCTION /8 I. KALININGRAD OBLAST: A SUBJECT OR AN OBJECT OF THE F EDERATION? /9 1. THE AMBER ISLAND: Kaliningrad today /9 1.1. Kaliningrad in the legal, political and economic space of the Russian Federation /9 1.2. Current political situation /13 1.3. The current economic situation /17 1.4. The social situation /24 1.5. Characteristics of the Kaliningrad residents /27 1.6. The ecological situation /32 2. AN AREA UNDER SPECIAL SURVEILLANCE: Moscow’s policy towards the region /34 2.1. The policy of compensating for Kaliningrad’s location as an exclave /34 2.2. The policy of reinforcing social ties with the rest of Russia /43 2.3. The policy of restricted access for foreign partners to the region /45 2.4. The policy of controlling the region’s co-operation with other countries /47 3. -
The Russian Constitution and Foriegn Policy
The Russian Constitution and Foreign Policy: Regional Aspects Mikhail Rykhtik November 2000 PONARS Policy Memo 160 Nizhny Novgorod State University Internationalization is in progress on a global scale as national governments respond to an expanding range of international linkages, economic interdependence, and the demands of policy issues that can no longer be managed within the framework of individual political systems. At the same time, there is increasing attention to those pressures on the part of subnational interests, both governmental and non-governmental. Russia, too, is impacted by these trends. ! When subnational units establish cross-national links with their foreign counterparts, it represents a true departure from the traditional idea that the conduct of international relations is the exclusive domain of the central government. Foreign trade provides regions with arguments for more independence; the most important driving forces for economic regionalization come from markets, from private trade and investment flows, and from the policies of multinational companies. For Russian regions throughout the 1990s, the main post-Cold War priority for subnational foreign policy was trade and investment promotion. In pursuit of these, regions began to outbid each other in offering incentives to attract foreign investment. Underpinning these trends are two developments that both reflect and help to explain them: the expanding agenda of foreign policy and the diminishing distinctions between domestic and foreign policy. Legal and constitutional aspects play an important, but not determining role in this question. The most controversial legal issues arise when we talk about trade and economic foreign policy. In these cases, the federal center faces real constitutional difficulties in resisting local initiatives. -
Living in Two Places : Permanent Transiency In
living in two places: permanent transiency in the magadan region Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK; [email protected] abstract Some individuals in the Kolyma region of Northeast Russia describe their way of life as “permanently temporary.” This mode of living involves constant movements and the work of imagination while liv- ing between two places, the “island” of Kolyma and the materik, or mainland. In the Soviet era people maintained connections to the materik through visits, correspondence and telephone conversations. Today, living in the Kolyma means living in some distant future, constantly keeping the materik in mind, without fully inhabiting the Kolyma. People’s lives embody various mythologies that have been at work throughout Soviet Kolyma history. Some of these models are being transformed, while oth- ers persist. Underlying the opportunities afforded by high mobility, both government practices and individual plans reveal an ideal of permanency and rootedness. KEYWORDS: Siberia, gulag, Soviet Union, industrialism, migration, mobility, post-Soviet The Magadan oblast’1 has enjoyed only modest attention the mid-seventeenth century, the history of its prishloye in arctic anthropology. Located in northeast Russia, it be- naseleniye3 started in the 1920s when the Kolyma region longs to the Far Eastern Federal Okrug along with eight became known for gold mining and Stalinist forced-labor other regions, okrugs and krais. Among these, Magadan camps. oblast' is somewhat peculiar. First, although this territory These regional peculiarities—a small indigenous pop- has been inhabited by various Native groups for centu- ulation and a distinct industrial Soviet history—partly ries, compared to neighboring Chukotka and the Sakha account for the dearth of anthropological research con- Republic (Yakutia), the Magadan oblast' does not have a ducted in Magadan. -
Siberia: Tuva and Khakassia 25
SIBERIA: TUVA AND KHAKASSIA 25 - 31 May 2018 Far away, mysterious and inaccessible Siberia remains an unknown land; this adventure for only 10 participants will give you the unique chance to discover it. A voyage around the Sayan mountain range, through the unique wilderness of three different Siberian regions: Krasnoyarsk, Tuva and Khakassia. Our route crosses Asia's geographic center. Each of the three regions has its own peculiarity, culture and history. In our journey, we will experience all of these aspects by attending a concert of guttural songs, sleeping in a traditional Yurt, eating traditional food, visiting important archaeological sites and Buddhist temples. These are the lands of Shamanism par excellence, and we will not miss the chance to discover its secrets. Your guide on this trip will be Piero Bosco. PROGRAM 25 May Arrival at Abakan early morning followed by a guided tour of the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Khakassia. Transfer to the ancient Siberian town of Minusinsk, on the banks of the Enisey River. After lunch hike to the local museum of the Russian Decabrist. We will drive to the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant, the largest in Russia and we will continue visiting a trout farm, located very close to the plant. We will continue to the village of Shushenskoye, Lenin's exile place. Overnight at typical Siberian wooden houses with double rooms, private facilities. 26 May Excursion at the ethnographic museum of Shushenskoye. The history of the museum is related to the name of Vladimir Lenin, who lived in Shushenskoye during his exile between 1897 and 1900. -
Introduction. Komi Folklore Studies: Connecting Points1
https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2019.76.introduction INTRODUCTION. KOMI FOLKLORE STUDIES: CONNECTING POINTS1 Liudmila Lobanova Researcher Department of Folklore, Institute of Language, Literature, and History Komi Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Email: [email protected] Nikolay Kuznetsov Lecturer in Finno-Ugric Languages Department of Finno-Ugric Studies University of Tartu Email: [email protected] The special edition of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore is dedicated to Komi2 folklore and folklore studies. The issue was prepared within the frame- work of cooperation between the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum and the Folklore Department of the Komi Science Centre by Komi and Estonian folklore researchers. Prior to this, the authors published one of the issues (vol. 17, 2016) of the Sator periodical, which was also dedi- cated to Komi folklore studies. The goal of this issue is to present some of the results of recent Komi folklore studies to wider academic circles, overcoming the natural linguistic obstacles. The majority of articles are written within the research project “Local Folklore Traditions of the European Northeast of Russia: Mechanisms of Development and Adaptation, System of Genres, Ethnocultural Folklore Interaction” (№ AAAA-A17-117021310066-4). The history of Komi folklore studies reveals processes typical for the Rus- sian, Soviet, and post-Soviet research dealing with folklore (the research field extended and became more limited over time), as well as studying the Komi language and culture as part of the general development of Finno-Ugric stud- ies. Traditionally, academician Andreas Sjögren (1794–1855) is considered to have discovered Komi folklore – in 1827, he transcribed folklore texts and published them as examples of the Komi language. -
Second Report Submitted by the Russian Federation Pursuant to The
ACFC/SR/II(2005)003 SECOND REPORT SUBMITTED BY THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 25, PARAGRAPH 2 OF THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES (Received on 26 April 2005) MINISTRY OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION REPORT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROVISIONS OF THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES Report of the Russian Federation on the progress of the second cycle of monitoring in accordance with Article 25 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities MOSCOW, 2005 2 Table of contents PREAMBLE ..............................................................................................................................4 1. Introduction........................................................................................................................4 2. The legislation of the Russian Federation for the protection of national minorities rights5 3. Major lines of implementation of the law of the Russian Federation and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities .............................................................15 3.1. National territorial subdivisions...................................................................................15 3.2 Public associations – national cultural autonomies and national public organizations17 3.3 National minorities in the system of federal government............................................18 3.4 Development of Ethnic Communities’ National