The magazine «The Capital of the Country» have inquired 35 Russian regions (for inquire there are 83 regions in Russia) and try to construct the investment portrait of Russia. detail

The national priority project “Affordable and comfortable housing to the Russian citizens” have the main goal to make housing affordable for 30% households by 2010. Russia consists of 85 regions and it means that the national housing market includes 85 different parts which should be monitored regularly. detail

At the present time it is supposed that a housing bubble is the main reason of low-level housing affordability for an overwhelming majority of households in Russia. In spite of a great number of relevant researches the economics is not able to work out straight criteria of housing bubble’s existence. Moreover, the practice fails to offer management methods to prevent housing bubbles and smooth down the followed socially negative effects. Thus, so far housing bubble as market phenomenon is seemed to be difficult for analysis and resolving by administrative measures. In this paper we take a focus on method testing housing markets for bubbles’ infection and its approbation on the Russian regions. detail

In the modern world almost all the countries, federative or unitary, consist of some parts. These territories can have different names as states, cantons, federal earth, prefectures, etc. Meanwhile, all the governments have got a purpose to provide a homogeneous territory development, socially and economically. In practice it is rather difficult to reach an absolute parity among the country territories and some level of regional inequality will always take place. detail

The world crisis indirectly made many Russian strategic field enterprises dependant on foreign loans. They may pass into the hands of foreign financial institutions if appropriate measures are not taken detail

September 18-21 2008 VII International Investment Forum "Sochi-2008" has passed. This meeting is the significant result to a previous period as well as trajectory of investment development of the country and its regions for the future period detail

The share of schoolchildren with deviations of development has jumped 7.4 times since 1932 till 2005. This did not stop the number of undergraduates from going 150% up in the period 1990-2005. These are the basis on which Russia will build its innovational economy. detail

First of all, it is important to understand what does the term globalization means. Globalization (globalisation), in its literal sense, is the process of transformation of local phenomena into global ones. It can be described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together. This is a combination of economic, technological, social, cultural and political forces. The term ‘globalization’ is often used to refer to economic globalization: integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, the spread of technology; but it also affects legal sphere as well, because law is designed to provide peaceful and harmonious development of social relations between all subjects. detail

Governments around the world are struggling to capture the initiative that will allow them to return the global economy to some semblance of normality. The sub-prime meltdown, followed by a similar unraveling of consumer credit obligations in the US translated into instability in banks and insurance companies. The real estate market in the U.S. is worse now than any time since the great depression and its effects are circling the globe. detail

«The Capital of the country» starting a cycle of publications about the global changes, influencing the world. The given material is presented to our edition by John L. Petersen the founder and president of The Arlington Institute (http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org) , a “think tank” located in West Virginia in the U.S. that specializes in studying global futures. This article, the first in a series on the subject of coming change, is taken from his recently published book, A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change. © 2008 John L. Petersen. You may buy the book at Amazon – online store. detail

«The Capital of the country» starting a cycle of publications about the global changes, influencing the world. The given material is presented to our edition by John L. Petersen the founder and president of The Arlington Institute (www.arlingtoninstitute.org) , a “think tank” located in West Virginia in the U.S. that specializes in studying global futures. detail

The auction mechanism of the purchasing the land for construction of housing building assumes a competition of companies for offering the higher price. In such situation all small and average companies are superseded from the market, and the prices for new habitation promptly grow detail

At today’s market we see the advent of a new economic agency: innovator. He will never look for a job by writing and mailing of a CV; he will develop new business-models to realize his own innovation technologies. And the society’s accumulated money resources will gradually flow into the hands of the new social class: community of innovators. detail

The internationally practiced system of research grants which is generally accepted as effective and fair incentive of intellectual achievement has undergone alarming transformations under Russian law. detail