Monitoring Commodity Markets in Russia: the First Year of WTO Membership

#10. Russia Concentrates?
Monitoring Commodity Markets in Russia: the First Year of WTO Membership

The article quotes the results of commodity markets monitoring in Russia in order to analyze the first outcomes of WTO membership and to assess its consequences for separate regions. Three types of market were monitored — wheat, meat and cars — on the basis of statistical data of the Federal State Statistics Service and the Federal Customs Service of Russia.

Strategy of the pharmaceutical industry development in terms of external constraints

#9. Execution Excess
Strategy of the pharmaceutical industry development in terms of external constraints

Considering the trends of the Russian pharmaceutical industry development, we should bear in mind the existing external constraints, in the first place it is necessary to highlight the need to comply with the WTO rules and regulations, as well as the growing political and military pressure, intensifying economic sanctions against Russia from the part of the world leading countries. In this context, the article discusses the current state of the Russian pharmaceutical industry, strategic options of its development and the concomitant risks.

Specific features of the Ukrainian economy Integration into the World economy

#8. The Repertoire of Domination
Specific features of the Ukrainian economy Integration into the World economy

The paper analyzes macroeconomic consequences of Ukraine’s entry into the WTO. The basic Ukraine’s сommitments taken while joining the WTO with respect to export and import regulations, access to services market, are listed. Conclusion is made that the impact of Ukraine’s entry into the WTO can be hardly considered as corresponding to the national interests of economic development, contributing to job creation and improving the national welfare.

WTO and Modernization of Russian Education: What Expects Us?

#3. Conceptual viruses

When students begin to understand that with the Russian “documents of state standard” they are not required in the labor market, Russian universities will empty.

Around-Zero Topics

#9. Any problem with?

 In the published block of interviews on strategic issues three global strategic topics converged: what is happening to the human brain and human health, how social turbulence rolls in wave after wave, and that a new model of economic development is being worked through step by step. All these topics are “around-zero” ones. Each of them promises tremendous changes. It is already possible to begin to predict their scale and impact on our everyday life, but it is impossible to imagine them like all the “around-zero”.