Over the last decade foreign banks increased their presence in Russia.Foreign banks operating in the Russian banking market pursue diverse strategies. In the 1990s they occupied a narrow niche in the corporate lending market and were involved in transactions in the securities market. Their operations in the retail market were limited. In the 2000s, the subsidiaries of global banks expanded the range of services to become universal banks (Citibank Raiffeisenbank, Unicredit). Some foreign banks are engaged in providing services only to legal persons Banks with foreign capital have their own specifics in conducting credit operations in Russia. Their main customers are transnational corporation branches and the largest Russian enterprises and thus they occupy the most attractive niche in the corporate lending market. The article also reviews the performance of the foreign banks during the financial crisis.
Abalkina A. Foreign banks in Russia: Increased Presence and New Structure of Business // Bankar, 2010, Septembar.

The objective of the present study was to examine the effects of aggression and conflict-managing skills on popularity and attitude to school in Russian adolescents. Three types of aggression (physical, verbal, and indirect), constructive conflict resolution, thirdparty intervention, withdrawal, and victimization were examined using the Peer-Estimated Conflict Behavior (PECOBE) inventory [Bjorkquist and Osterman, 1998]. Also, all respondents rated peer and self-popularity with same-sex classmates and personal attitude to school. The sample consisted of 212 Russian adolescents (101 boys, 111 girls) aged between 11 and 15 years. The findings attest to significant sex differences in aggression and conflict resolution patterns. Boys scored higher on physical and verbal aggression, and girls on indirect aggression. Girls were socially more skillful than boys in the use of peaceful means of conflict resolution (they scored higher on constructive conflict resolution and third-party intervention). The attributional discrepancy index (ADI) scores were negative for all three types of aggression in both sexes. Verbal aggression is apparently more condemned in boys than in girls. ADI scores were positive for constructive conflict resolution and third-party intervention in both genders, being higher in boys. In girls, verbal aggression was positively correlated with popularity. In both sexes, popularity showed a positive correlation with constructive conflict resolution and third-party intervention, and a negative correlation with withdrawal and victimization. Boys who liked school were popular with same-sex peers and scored higher on constructive conflict resolution. Girls who liked school were less aggressive according to peer rating. They also rated higher on conflict resolution and third-party intervention. Physical aggression was related to age. The results are discussed in a cross-cultural perspective.

The research goal is the comparative analysis of morbidity of sexually transmitted diseases in the Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus in dynamics in the period from 1997 till 2007. Research data have been taken from statistic documents based on observations of STD registered in the countries under study. Statistical data manipulation has been done on PC (Pentium IV) in the programme Microsoft Excel. According to the research results the morbidity indices of most STD have been decreased. The higher morbidity indices of trichomoniasis have been noticed in Russia -186,2 and in Republic of Belarus-220,4 for the population of 100 000 people. The results of research have shown that it is necessary to work out normative documents, to identify the contingent of patients and repetition factor of medical examinations to prevent the spread of STD
V.V. Lyutsko, G.Yu. Yutkina, N.V. Vartapetova, M.A. Ivanova, I.V. Furmanova Morbidity Of Sexually Transmitted Diseases In The Russian Federation And Republic Of Belarus (From 1997 Till 2007) // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 5, Issue 4, 2009, pp. 521-523

Russia is the legal successor to the USSR and tends to claim a comparable role and place in the world-order. Yet it has neither the power of its predecessor nor the political will to try and change the rules. The paper describes Russia’s developing nuclear cooperation with India even at the expense of stretching the rules set within the framework of world-order that was created by the Big Five, for the Big Five.

Russia, the empire, history, politics, social processes, modernization, politicheskaya theory, sotsiologiya social change, filosofiya history, of national identity, Russian idea, democracy, human rights
Neva number 3, 2009.

The process of Russian modernization as alternation of imperial and liberal models of modernization is considered in a monograph, in which an imperial model is a dominant, and liberal only additional, compensative. Nasha a historical misfortune consists in that Russian modernization is instrumental in not so much included of Russia in modernity, how many to strengthening of feodal'no-imperskikh grounds of the kul'turno-civilizacionnoy system. Modernization in the name strengthening of empire results in the redistribution of vital energy of man from the sphere of daily occurence in a sphere society or religious megaproektov, creates the world, where a man is the improvised mean only, and strengthening of empire is a great purpose. Whether it is possible to tear this vicious circle, show a country out of imperial track, to tear an umbilical cord, relating it with an impersko-feodal'nym legacy, and to release a man from service Empire, to Due and Power – here that circle of questions, on which we try to answer in this book. A book is intended for kul'turologov, historians, sociologists, all those, who is interested in the processes of Russian modernization.
Book; Russian Moskva: URSS, 2004. ISBN: 5354009154 9785354009152

A new book and political culturologist SN Gavrova devoted to the problems of Russia's modernization and postimperskogo transit. The author tries to find answers to key questions: what prevents us on the road to cultural and institutional integration in Europe - for freedom and democracy? And why do we so often seek to turn into a, for centuries nakatannuyu historic track, leading to regular neoimpersky historic impasse? The book is intended for political scientists, culture, historians, sociologists and all those interested in the processes of modernization in conditions of Russia's transformation postimperskih state and society.
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