December 25 — January 1
About Magazine
Expert magazine is among Russia’s most influential and respectable business weeklies. In almost a dozen years of its existence Expert survived political and financial crises in Russia and managed to establish its position as a definite leader among its peers.
Expert Group aims to provide a comprehensive range of information and research products and services assisting Russian companies to grow and helping them understand current economic and business trends.
USSR: After-Life
Fifteen years ago, The Soviet Union, the last empire in the recent history, descended into oblivion one week before the 69th anniversary of the Revolution
The reintegration
Strong institutions make stable economic growth possible. It is not relevant in terms of the dynamics of economics which methods – whether authoritarian or democratic – are used to maintain these institutions
The establishment of the Ukrainian state system is going on with difficulties but the country has all chances to get out of the deadlock of nationalism and clan confrontations
The props that provide stability for the current regime in Belarus are slowly eroding. But the Belarus authorities and society are not yet ready for change
In the fifteen years after gaining independence, Moldavia has failed to reunite. Two separated parts of the country, its citizens, business and political groups view their future in vastly different ways.
Armenia has survived, won a war and come through
Today Azerbaijan is living experiencing a national optimism, unique
Georgian revolutionists are trying hard to shake the dust of the old world of the Georgian SSR and Georgia of Eduard Shevardnadze from their feet. But the dust turned out to be sticking
Kazakhstan is successfully following the strategy of being equidistant from world centers of force — both in politics and economy. At the present moment, the clannish nature of the ruling elite still contributes to the economic success. But everything will change when the country’s development becomes dependant not on the elite but on ambitions and professionalism of the medium size business and middle class
Uzbekistan is not hurrying to liberalise its life and economy. A quick dash for growth is not to the country’s benefit. The notion of the State is valued more highly than any ideas about personal freedoms.
The Tulip Revolution has been shaking up Kyrgyzstan a year and a half. At the same time current economy of the country
Despite great oil and gas profits, Turkmenistan has not become a Central Asian Kuwait
With entering EU Latvia finally lost its economical independence. However it is not an obstacle for luxuriant bloom of small business. Besides, mass labour migration to Europe pulls life standard up. International and language friction lost sharpness against this background
Two and a half year of NATO and European Union membership have not brought Lithuania expected prosperity. Now, a new idea is gaining more and more popularity here, the idea to become a political and economic bridge between Russia and the West
Unique
In ten years the number of people in the former Soviet republics who do not speak Russian will double and reach approximately 80 million people. Their number will be higher than the number of people with a command of Russian
A significant
