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A rise of state activism in a competitive industry: The case of Russian retail trade law of 2009
Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 2018. Vol. 51. No. 1. P. 27–37.
The paper is aimed at exploring the Russian state return to the highly competitive industry of retail trade by adopting restrictive industry-specific legislation in 2009. We reveal a new precedent model of governance using the liberal rhetoric of the competition protection to justify intervention in interfirm contractual relations. We use survey data collected from 843 retailers and suppliers in 2013 to demonstrate that the new legislation had not achieved the proclaimed goals. The paper concludes that instead of market facilitation, the new state activism leads to the further suppression of business and the subversion of antimonopoly policy.
Research target:
Political Science, International Relations, and Public Administration
Sociology (including Demography and Anthropology
Priority areas:
sociology
Language:
English
Kanaev E., Southeast Asia: Actual Problems of Development 2026 Vol. 1 No. 1(70) P. 153–163
The article aims to specify the degree of success Cambodia has been able to achieve in developing its Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem seen through the prism of the state of the country’s non-digital assets as an outcome of its economic modernization, as well as of its digital projects and initiatives. Outlining the specifics of Cambodia’s ...
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Kanaev E., Юго-Восточная Азия: актуальные проблемы развития 2026 Т. 1 № 1(70) С. 22–36
The article aims to specify possibilities and system constraints of cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Russian Federation (RF) in the digital field, as well as assess its most promising directions. The nature and specifics of ASEAN’s policy in the digital field from the perspective of implementation of its initiatives ...
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Evgeny A. Kanaev, Berezhnaya A., Southeast Asia: Actual Problems of Development 2026 Vol. 2 No. 2(71) P. 175–187
The article examines the significance and the place of the digital tools developed by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in the priorities of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV). On tracing the RCEP’s origins, evolution, and interim outcomes obtained to date, the article proceeds with assessing the efficiency of the RCEP’s digital tools to ...
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Kanaev E., Southeast Asia: Actual Problems of Development 2026 Vol. 2 No. 2(71) P. 11–22
The author focuses on a strengthening digital component in the evolution of the South China Sea issue in the context of ASEAN’s evolving approach to the deepening contradictions and its policy in the digital field. On outlining ASEAN’s policy on the South China Sea issue, the author proceeds to exploring the digital agenda of ASEAN’s ...
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Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Институт Европы Российской академии наук, 2026.
This edited volume examines the place of the European Union in the global economy during the first quarter of the twenty-first century against the backdrop of an emerging global economic order in which BRICS countries are playing an increasingly important role. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of the EU’s integration strategy – its ...
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Fain E., Korotayev A., Полис. Политические исследования 2026 № 4 С. 170–183
In the 21st century, the theory of revolutions has encountered a number of theoretical and practical difficulties, the main one being the conceptualization of revolutions. At the moment, the theory needs new focuses and approaches. One potential innovation that could enrich the theory is the concept of “coupvolution”, which emerged after the Egyptian Revolution of ...
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Biryuk D., Инженерные кадры - будущее инновационной экономики России 2025 № 1 С. 1677–1679
The article is devoted to the study of the impact of budget indicators on the level of development of public-private partnership (PPP) in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The relationship between such indicators as budget security, the level of subsidization, gross regional product (GRP), the volume of public debt and the volume of ...
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Biryuk D., Инженерные кадры - будущее инновационной экономики России 2025 № 1 С. 1680–1682
The article examines the issues of accounting for budget obligations under public-private partnership (PPP) projects in budget reporting. International standards for budget accounting, such as the accrual method and the cash method, are highlighted. The analysis of the Russian experience is carried out, where the cash method is used, which limits the transparency of PPP ...
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Мкртчян Р. В., Международный дискуссионный клуб «Валдай» 2026
Проект «Четвертой республики» в Армении представляет собой попытку переосмысления постсоветской модели государственности, в рамках которой карабахский вопрос выступал центральным элементом национальной идентичности и ключевым ресурсом легитимации власти.
Победа партии «Гражданский договор» и инициируемая ею конституционная реформа, предполагающая отказ от прежних правовых оснований, фиксируют переход к модели, где приоритетом становится не идеологический проект, а императив выживания государства.
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Nefedova A., Marinina E. I., Antonova E. et al., М.: ИСИЭЗ ВШЭ, 2026.
В работе отражены результаты масштабного социологического исследования возможностей по реализации индустриальной аспирантуры, выполненного Институтом статистических исследований и экономики знаний Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая школа экономики» (ИСИЭЗ НИУ ВШЭ)
при поддержке Минобрнауки России. Рассмотрена международная практика применения подобного формата подготовки научных кадров высшей квалификации. Приведены мнения представителей университетов и компаний о востребованности и перспективах индустриальной аспирантуры в нашей стране, а также суждения ...
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Chernov D., Nesmashnyi A., Safranchuk I. et al., International Interactions 2026 Vol. 52 No. 4 P. 661–686
The determinants of foreign interventions, be they military interventions or other forms of foreign involvement, are important for modern international relations and conflict studies. Nevertheless, major methodological problems with the analysis are often overlooked. This paper proposes modeling interventions as a two-stage decision-making process. The first stage determines whether a specific target state is intervenable ...
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Pashkov S., Социологический журнал 2026 Т. 32 № 2 С. 32–44
This article discusses the methodological possibilities and specific features of constructing chain indices based on longitudinal sociological data. The relevance of the study stems from the shortage of diverse socio-economic indicators for promptly tracking fluctuations in the expectations and intentions of small business owners under heightened uncertainty. The authors show that the chain index methodology ...
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Scientific publishing house Infinity, 2026.
These Conference Proceedings combine materials of the conference –
research papers and thesis reports of scientifi c workers. They examine technical,
juridical and sociological aspects of research issues. Some articles deal
with theoretical and methodological approaches and principles of research
questions of personality professionalization. ...
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Bondarenko D. M., Диалог со временем 2026 № 95 С. 36–49
The article explores contemporary African Americans’ perspectives on the Revolution and its legacy, and in particular their understanding of the social, political, and cultural foundations of their country laid during that era and the results achieved on those foundations, both for American society as a whole and for its Black community. Assessments of the past, ...
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Ойеволе А., Savinskaya O., Journal of Social Policy Studies 2026 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 353–368
This study uses structuration theory to examine gendered dynamics within student-led STEM research groups at a Nigerian university. While gender disparities in STEM are well-documented, comparatively little attention has been given to the micro-level interactional processes through which gender inequalities are reproduced, negotiated, and occasionally challenged, particularly in non-Western educational settings. Drawing on semi-structured interviews ...
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Pislyakov V., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология 2026 № 101 С. 175–192
This article examines the use of proverbs in academic texts—specifically, articles published in Russian research journals. For the experiment, ten proverbs were selected as the intersection of two fundamentally different paremiological surveys aimed at compiling lists of popular or common Russian proverbs. One of these surveys was conducted by the classic of paremiology, G.L. Permyakov, ...
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Грудников Н. С., Пастухова Е. Г., Психология и право 2026 Т. 16 № 2 С. 198–214
Context and relevance. Mediation is a widespread form of conflict resolution with its own unique principles. Restorative justice, as a new paradigm in criminal justice, utilizes mediation as a form of implementation while adapting it to its own core concepts. Objective. The study aims to identify the differences between the value foundations of classical and ...
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Galimullin E. Z., Алексеев Д. В., Вестник МГИМО Университета 2026 Т. 19 № 3 С. 142–163
The return of Donald Trump to the White House has exposed a growing mismatch between the United States’ “America First” policy and its established role as the principal coordinator of transatlantic sanctions. This article examines how US–EU sanctions coordination changed in 2025 and assesses whether these changes represent temporary policy divergence or a more systemic ...
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Gajiyev A., Социология: методология, методы, математическое моделирование 2026 Т. 35 № 2 С. 131–163
This article presents an overview of experimental studies comparing ordinary moral judgments about wars with normative models (international humanitarian law and just war theory). Based on an analysis of works in this area, a typology of research designs is proposed based on four key parameters: the object of assessment, the degree of scenario realism, the ...
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Курылев К. П., Degterev D. A., Грачиков Е. Н. et al., Постсоветские исследования 2022 Т. 5 № 7 С. 754–763
This article is based on the understanding of the results of a one-name methodological
seminar organized and conducted by the Department of Theory and History of International Relations
of the Russian Academy of Sciences on September 8, 2022, in which the issues of the nature and
features of the USSR foreign policy for the period from 1971 to ...
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Амара Д., Degterev D. A., Эгамов Б., Проблемы национальной стратегии 2022 № 2(71) С. 76–101
The article presents an analysis of the UN personnel, engaged in African peacekeeping operations, from the perspective of emerging blocks of the «collective West» and the «collective non-West». The rationale for choosing the UN African peacekeeping missions as the subject for the study is that they are the most numerous, multi-format, expensive, and lethal ones ...
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Абрамова И. О., Аду Я. Н., Анише Т. Э. et al., Институт Африки РАН, 2025.
Данная монография посвящена анализу концепции суверенитета африканских государств как в теоретическом, так и практическом ключе. Рассматриваются экономический, ментальный, языковой и культурный, информационный и образовательный аспекты африканского суверенитета. Исследуется роль региональных интеграционных группировок, а также внешних акторов в контексте суверенизации Африки. Особое внимание уделяется роли РФ в укре- плении суверенитета стран континента.
Монография формирует целостное представление по ...
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Кочегаров К. А., Новое прошлое 2022 № 1 С. 219–228
The paper, basing on discussion questions of the editorial board of the “Novoe
Proshloe / The New Past” journal, touches upon main tendencies of academic studies
in relations between Muscovite Rus’ and post-Golden Horde states in the Early Modern
period. Taking into account various achievements of modern Russian historiography
(works of Anna Choroshkewich, Vadim Trepavlov, Ilya Zaytsev, Andrey Belyakov ...
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Астана: Центр развития и защиты конкурентной политики, Евразийская антимонопольная ассоциация, 2026.
"Антимонопольная система Казахстана: история, люди, институты" - первое комплексное издание, объединяющее исторические материалы, аналитические исследования, документальные свидетельства и очерки руководителей антимонопольного органа. Книга охватывает путь от первых шагов независимого Казахстана и становления антимонопольного законодательства в 1990-е годы до современных реформ, международных обзоров ОЭСР и интеграционных процессов в рамках ЕАЭС. ...
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