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Regional Elections in Russia: the Kremlin Is Tackling Previous Challenges While Facing New Ones
SEPTEMBER 2019 10 Jussi Lassila, Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of Intenational Affairs REGIONAL ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA THE KREMLIN IS TACKLING PREVIOUS CHALLENGES WHILE FACING NEW ONES The Kremlin is trying to learn lessons from old problems regarding its electoral authoritarian system, but new ones are constantly emerging. At the heart of these is the Kremlin’s party system. This year, Russia’s regional elec- regime’s candidates, as well as of which provides a clear indication tions were a follow-up to the ones those candidates who receive protest of the spirit in which the Kremlin held in 2018. In 2018, the principal votes. The reputation of the main foisted its favourites into power. focus was on the re-election of Mos- opposition parties in the Duma, the In St. Petersburg, President Pu- cow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, which Russian Liberal Democratic Party tin’s trusted Alexander Beglov, the played out according to the Krem- and the Communist Party, as genu- highly unpopular governor, proved lin’s script. By contrast, candidates ine political alternatives is also weak. to be a headache for the Kremlin from the Kremlin’s ruling party, However, in the regional elections, it until election day. In polls, Beglov’s United Russia, lost as many as four was the Communist Party’s “too op- strongest contender, the Commu- gubernatorial elections. Primorsky positional” candidates in particular, nist Party’s 73-year-old Vladimir Krai in Russia’s Far East witnessed and candidates who might gather Bortko, stood a good chance of tak- the biggest scandal when Commu- protest votes that appeared to pose ing the race to the second round, nist Party of the Russian Federation a risk to the regime. -
The Russian Vertikal: the Tandem, Power and the Elections
Russia and Eurasia Programme Paper REP 2011/01 The Russian Vertikal: the Tandem, Power and the Elections Andrew Monaghan Nato Defence College June 2011 The views expressed in this document are the sole responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of Chatham House, its staff, associates or Council. Chatham House is independent and owes no allegiance to any government or to any political body. It does not take institutional positions on policy issues. This document is issued on the understanding that if any extract is used, the author(s)/ speaker(s) and Chatham House should be credited, preferably with the date of the publication. REP Programme Paper. The Russian Vertikal: the Tandem, Power and the Elections Introduction From among many important potential questions about developments in Russian politics and in Russia more broadly, one has emerged to dominate public policy and media discussion: who will be Russian president in 2012? This is the central point from which a series of other questions and debates cascade – the extent of differences between President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and how long their ‘Tandem’ can last, whether the presidential election campaign has already begun and whether they will run against each other being only the most prominent. Such questions are typically debated against a wider conceptual canvas – the prospects for change in Russia. Some believe that 2012 offers a potential turning point for Russia and its relations with the international community: leading to either the return of a more ‘reactionary’ Putin to the Kremlin, and the maintenance of ‘stability’, or another term for the more ‘modernizing’ and ‘liberal’ Medvedev. -
He Who Has Not Been to Moscow Has Not Seen Beauty
STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESS IN MOSCOW He who has not been to Moscow has not seen beauty A PROPOS “To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!” Like a mantra, However, the majority of people who live abroad know this phrase is repeated by the sisters in Anton nothing about this. Old habits, as they say, die hard. Chekhov’s famous play “Three Sisters.” The play is Many foreigners still think that the sun never rises about three young women dreaming of escaping their in Moscow, that the city is always cold and that it boring small town and coming to the capital. Although snows year round. Not to mention the rumors of bears the play was written in 1900, people from all over roaming the streets at night. Disappointing as it may Russia, as well as people from CIS countries, still want be, these myths are still around. to move to Moscow. Of course, we are partially responsible for this – we Moscow has always been a magnet. At least this is the tell the world very little about ourselves. We need to way things have played out historically – all the best spend more resources on attracting tourists to Moscow things could be found in the capital: shops, libraries, by letting them know how convenient and comfortable clinics, schools, universities, theatres. At one point, the city has become. According to official statistics, coming to Moscow from Siberia was like taking a trip to over 5 million foreigners visited Moscow last year. This a foreign country. is obviously a small number – about 15 million tourists visit places like London and Paris every year. -
Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S
Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S. Interests Jim Nichol, Coordinator Specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs November 4, 2010 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov RL33407 CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S. Interests Summary Russia made some uneven progress in democratization during the 1990s, but according to most observers, this limited progress was reversed after Vladimir Putin rose to power in 1999-2000. During this period, the State Duma (lower legislative chamber) came to be dominated by government-approved parties and opposition democratic parties were excluded. Putin also abolished gubernatorial elections and established government ownership or control over major media and industries, including the energy sector. The methods used by the Putin government to suppress insurgency in the North Caucasus demonstrated a low regard for the rule of law and scant regard for human rights, according to critics. Dmitriy Medvedev, Vladimir Putin’s chosen successor and long-time protégé, was elected president in March 2008 and immediately chose Putin as prime minister. President Medvedev has continued policies established during the Putin presidency. In August 2008, the Medvedev-Putin “tandem” directed wide-scale military operations against Georgia and unilaterally recognized the independence of Georgia’s separatist South Ossetia and Abkhazia, actions that were censured by most of the international community but which resulted in few, minor, and only temporary international sanctions against Russia. Russia’s economy began to recover from the Soviet collapse in 1999, led mainly by oil and gas exports, but the sharp decline in oil and gas prices in mid-2008 and other aspects of the global economic downturn put a halt to this growth. -
The City of Moscow in Russia's Foreign and Security Policy: Role
Eidgenössische “Regionalization of Russian Foreign and Security Policy” Technische Hochschule Zürich Project organized by The Russian Study Group at the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research Andreas Wenger, Jeronim Perovic,´ Andrei Makarychev, Oleg Alexandrov WORKING PAPER NO.7 APRIL 2001 The City of Moscow in Russia’s Foreign and Security Policy: Role, Aims and Motivations DESIGN : SUSANA PERROTTET RIOS Moscow enjoys an exceptional position among the Russian regions. Due to its huge By Oleg B. Alexandrov economic and financial potential, the city of Moscow largely shapes the country’s economic and political processes. This study provides an overall insight into the complex international network that the city of Moscow is tied into. It also assesses the role, aims and motivations of the main regional actors that are involved. These include the political authorities, the media tycoons and the major financial-industrial groups. Special attention is paid to the problem of institutional and non-institutional interaction between the Moscow city authorities and the federal center in the foreign and security policy sector, with an emphasis on the impact of Putin’s federal reforms. Contact: Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research ETH Zentrum / SEI CH-8092 Zürich Switzerland Andreas Wenger, head of project [email protected] Jeronim Perovic´ , project coordinator [email protected] Oleg Alexandrov [email protected]; [email protected] Andrei Makarychev [email protected]; [email protected] Order of copies: Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research ETH Zentrum / SEI CH-8092 Zürich Switzerland [email protected] Papers available in full-text format at: http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/ Layout by Marco Zanoli The City of Moscow in Russia’s Foreign and Security Policy: Role, Aims and Motivations By Oleg B. -
Finances for Development: a New Platform for Stable and Balanced Relationships
FINANCES FOR DEVELOPMENT: A NEW PLATFORM FOR STABLE AND BALANCED RELATIONSHIPS PROGRAMME* Russia,1 Manege Square, Moscow www.ff.msk.ru * The programme is subject to change Dear friends, dear colleagues, This year we will meet for the third time at the Moscow Financial Forum to discuss matters related to Russia's financial and economic policy. We have set ourselves an ambitious goal of achieving a breakthrough in the country's social and economic development. We will work together with representatives of the expert, academic and business community, as well as with public representatives to devise mechanisms for the achievement of strategic goals set in the executive order signed by the President in May to promote the development of Russia. The Moscow Financial Forum will provide a platform for the search of such solutions. The Third Moscow Financial Forum will be held in the Manege Central Exhibition Hall on September 6 and 7, ahead of the Financial Expert's Day. This year's Forum is titled "Finances for Development: A New Platform for Stable and Balanced Relationships". Participants of the Forum will discuss the government's fiscal policy, ways to improve the standard of living in the country, priorities of inter-budgetary relations, transformation of public administration in the digital economy, as well as matters related to the development of the government control system and public procurement. We believe that the 3rd Moscow Financial Forum will represent a major breakthrough in terms of its scale and outcomes and that the ideas and proposals tabled for discussion will be put in practice in the course of social and economic reforms in the country. -
Romanov News Новости Романовых
Romanov News Новости Романовых By Paul Kulikovsky №89 August 2015 A procession in memory of Tsarevich Alexei was made for the twelfth time A two-day procession in honor of the birth of the last heir to the Russian throne - St. Tsarevich Alexei, was made for the twelfth time on August 11-12 from Tsarskoye Selo to Peterhof. The tradition of the procession was born in 2004 - says the coordinator of the procession Vladimir Znahur - The icon painter Igor Kalugin gave the church an icon of St. Tsarevich. We decided that this icon should visit the Lower dacha, where the Tsarevich was born. We learned that in "Peterhof" in 1994 was a festival dedicated to the last heir to the imperial throne. We decided to go in procession from the place where they lived in the winter - from Tsarskoye Selo. Procession begins with Divine Liturgy at the Tsar's Feodorovsky Cathedral and then prayer at the beginning of the procession. The cross procession makes stops at churches and other significant sites. We called the route of our procession "From Sadness to Joy." They lived in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo, loved it, there was born the Grand Duchess Olga. But this palace became a prison for the last of the Romanovs, where they then went on their way of the cross. It was in this palace the Tsarevich celebrated his last birthday", - says Vladimir. The next morning, after the Liturgy, we go to the birthplace of the Tsarevich - "Peterhof". Part of the procession was led by the clergy of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Peterhof, Archpriest Mikhail Teryushov and Vladimir Chornobay. -
CPSW 2-2017.Indd
Contemporary Problems of Social Work ACADEMIC JOURNAL Vol. 3. No. 2 (10) 2017 MOSCOW CCONTEMPORARYONTEMPORARY PPROBLEMSROBLEMS CONTENTS OOFF SSOCIALOCI AL WWORKORK Starostenkov N.V. VVolumeolume 33,, NNo.o. 2 ((10),10), 22017017 “On Some Problems of a Young Scientist Formation” . 4 ISSN 2412-5466 ECONOMY The journal is included into the system Efremova M.Yu. of Russian science citation index and is Methodical Approaches to the Development available on the website: of Economic-Organizing Provision of Professional www.elibrary.ru and Public Estimation of the Quality of Educational Programmes for Service and Hospitality Industry . 7 DOI 10.17922/2412-5466-2017-3-2 Ivanova O.A. Standard and Legal Regulation CHIEF EDITOR of the Consulting Services Market Maloletko A.N. (The History of the Development doctor of economic sciences, professor, vice-rector for research, Russian State of Consulting Services Market) . .15 Social University, Russia Keneshbaeva Z.M. Kyrgyzstan’s Economy in Terms of the EEMA DEPUTY EDITOR and the Role of the Russian-Kyrgyz Development Kaurova O.V. doctor of economic sciences, Fund As a Support Institution . .24 professor, dean of the Melnik M.S., Mityushina E.A. faculty of training of scientific and Regulation of a Labor Migration for Increase scientific-pedagogical personnel, Russian State Social University, Russia in Efficiency of Forming of the Regional Market of a Labor Power and Decrease in Integration Risks . 32 EDITORIAL BOARD Plakhotnaya I.V. Feber J. (PhD, University The System of Motivation As a Way of Trnava, Slovakia) of Solving Institutional Conflicts. .40 Mirsky J. (PhD, Ben-Gurion University Ryasina P.V. -
Russia and the Coronavirus Crisis
AT A GLANCE Russia and the coronavirus crisis Official data suggest that Russia has been less affected by the Covid-19 pandemic than most other countries so far. However, the authorities’ slow response and the poor state of the healthcare system risk aggravating the situation. For Vladimir Putin, the crisis has at least made it easier for him to push through constitutional changes potentially giving him 12 more years in power. Moscow is also accused of taking advantage of the crisis for geopolitical ends, for example by spreading destabilising disinformation targeted at Western countries. After a slow start, the virus is now spreading fast Coronavirus was slow to spread to Russia. The first cases on 31 January 2020 concerned two Chinese nationals in Siberia. After a gap of over three weeks with no new reported cases, Covid-19 was recorded in several Russian nationals returning from abroad, in particular from Italy. The first infection inside Russia itself was not confirmed until 15 March. Since then, the numbers have grown exponentially, reaching 52 763 infections and 456 deaths as of 21 April. Most of these are concentrated in Moscow, but all of Russia’s 84 other regions are affected. Russia still has a relatively low infection rate (365 confirmed cases per million of population, around one-quarter of those recorded in most western European countries); however, this could change, as the epidemic has not yet reached its peak, with a record 5 642 new cases on 21 April 2020. Covid-19 may have spread further than official statistics suggest. In January 2020, pneumonia cases in Moscow surged 37 % year-on-year; doctors suspect that coronavirus could have caused part of the increase. -
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 374 International Conference on Man-Power-Law-Governance: Interdisciplinary Approaches (MPLG-IA 2019) Moscow's experience in building a system of management of the metropolis (organizational and legal aspects) Vladimir Zotov Elena Zabelina Alexander Yakovlev Doctor of Economic Sciences, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Deputy head of the Department, Professor Head of the Department, Associate Professor of the Doctor of Political Sciences State and Municipal Management Department of State and Municipal State University of Management State University of Management Management1, Associate Professor of Moscow, Russia Moscow, Russia Department of Constitutional and [email protected] Municipal law2, expert of the all- Russian Council of local self- government 1 Institute of public administration and law, State University of Management, 2 Moscow state juridical University. O. E. kutafina Moscow, Russia Vagif Aliyev Alexander Rudnev Olga Gracheva Professor of the Department, Doctor Professor of the Department, Doctor Candidate of Economic Sciences, of Law, Professor of Economic Sciences, Professor First Deputy Head of the Department State University of Management State University of Management of Labor and Social Protection of the Moscow, Russia Moscow, Russia Population of Moscow, State Secretary Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of Moscow Moscow, Russia Abstract–This work is devoted to the study of the Taking into account the requirements for the management system of the largest city of the Russian organization of local government in cities of federal Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States importance, in accordance with the Moscow City Charter, - Moscow. This settlement has a special legal status and the Moscow City Act of November 6, 2002 was passed No. -
Infant Mortality in Moscow: the Perils of Progress in Russia's World City
J Urban Health https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-019-00375-z Infant Mortality in Moscow: the Perils of Progress in Russia’sWorldCity Irina B. Grafova & Michael K. Gusmano & Karen Martirosyan & Daniel Weisz & Victor G. Rodwin # The New York Academy of Medicine 2019 Abstract This paper examines changes in infant mor- Keywords Infant mortality. Moscow. Intra-city health tality (IM) in Moscow, Russia’s largest and most afflu- inequalities ent city. Along with some remarkable improvements in Moscow’s health system over the period between 2000 and 2014, the overall IM rate for Moscow’sresidents Introduction decreased substantially between 2000 and 2014. There remains, however, substantial intra-city variation across The most striking aspect of the Russian health care system Moscow’s 125 neighborhoods. Our regression models today is the extent to which it has returned to many of its suggest that in higher-income neighborhoods measured inherited legacies, namely the principle of universal health by percent of population with rental income as a primary coverage (UHC)—at least for a so-called “guaranteed source, the IM rate is significantly lower than in lower- minimum” while at the same time allowing for parallel income neighborhoods measured by percent of popula- systems for the most privileged, and massive inequalities tion with transfer income as primary source (housing across regions, urban/rural areas, and by income. In prin- and utility subsidies and payments to working and low- ciple, Russians have a constitutional right to free health income mothers, single mothers and foster parents). We care provided by state and municipal organizations [1]and also find that the density of physicians in a neighbor- citizens are assigned to a polyclinic based on their place of hood is negatively correlated with the IM rate, but the residence. -
4/2019 Results of 2019 PDF 19.6 Mbyte
Results: CONTENTS 6 7 10 4 From the first person 17 PHOTO EVENT 26 Pilot project Alexander Slavinsky: Fruitful cooperation Superconductor Strategy of development with Indian technologies are opening in action partners new horizons for the ‘We have set a goal to manufacture products Russian energy sector that are not only competitive on the Russian market but in the entire world’. 18 Export Tests in India 30 Power Industry of Russia 6 Industry Events Successfully Completed 32 Point on the map 8 Photo Event Izolyator HV and UHV bushings have passed Geography of testing at the Central Power Research Institute Cooperation in 2019 PGIF 2019 in India 10 RNC CIGRE Events 20 Export 36 Electrical Engineering 2019: milestones, facts Ambitions goals 40 Marketing in the international 14 Feature story Yaroslav SEDOV: arena ‘As we further expand our presence, we Ivan PANFILOV: Deliveries of bushings to the power grids of assessed markets in such countries as Russian — India: the countries of the world Malaysia, South Korea and Saudi Arabia’. wide step integration and cooperation 22 Export 42 Word experience The Russian-Indian joint venture Massa Developing Japan: introduction Izolyator Mehru Pvt. Ltd for production of high voltage bushings in India has been Cooperation With of RES and development registered CIS Countries of market mechanisms 2 18 14 26 56 58 44 Technologies 52 Pulse of the company and innovation Julia TURINA: “Our staff development program received a high Konstantin SIPILKIN: praise from the company management and the A start into the big future entire team” “RIN bushings hit the mass production.