FIRST SURVEY "MARINE INSURANCE MARKET IN RUSSIA 2009"
This research has been conducted by Worldwide Expert between March and June 2009. Twelve out of twenty-two Russian companies, working in the marine insurance market in the region have taken part in this survey. Respondents were asked to fill in the questionnaire; in a number of cases a telephone interview was applied.
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Perceptions of EU Foreign Policy and the Foreign Policies of its Member States by Russian Citizens
Alexander Trocjuks
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interests.
Winston Churchill
Karen E. Smith starts her book - "European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing world" with extremely interesting and important questions: "What sort of international actor is the European Union? What values, interests and objectives does it promote internationally? What is its 'international identity'?" [1] We can find very different answers to these questions articulated by respected scholars or involved politicians, while it could be very interesting to ask citizens of neighbouring country, especially citizens of such a discrepant country as the Russian Federation.
[1] K. E. Smith, "European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World", Polity Press, 2003, p.1
Political Implications of the Financial Crisis in the Baltic States: Latvia
Aleksandrs Murnieks
The worldwide problems of the banking and financial sectors, have deepened the recession of the Economy in the Baltic States. As the result, the Latvian state has practically bankrupted, while Lithuania and Estonia manage to hang on so far. The attempts of the governments to implement necessary measures to tackle the problems have had a major political implication, leading to the fall of the government in Latvia and general revaluation of the state management policies and functioning. As well as it opened a new page in history of the Baltic State's democratic evolution, by introducing a chapter of violent riots against the Parliaments' lack of transparency and coherence...
To what extent was Kyrgyzstan's Independence in 1990-91 inevitable?
Philip Sydenham
"The action taken in Mensk [Minsk] faced the Central Asian republics with a fait accompli. Frankly, it was an insult to their sovereignty and national dignity."[1]
Mikhail Gorbachev
The history of the Kyrgyz Republic[2] and the other Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union is rarely studied beyond each of these countries' own borders. The nature of the centrally planned Soviet system meant that the vast majority of important political decisions were taken in Moscow. Leaders within the republics were simply left to implement the resulting directives and meet the targets their countries were set. They had few dealings with the world outside of the Soviet Union, beyond occasionally making up the numbers of foreign delegations.[3] In terms of political history then, there seemed little that would be of interest for Western study.
[1] M. Gorbachev, "My final hours", Time, 139:19 (1992), p.44.
[2] The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), or commonly called Kirghizia , until October 1990 when the country was renamed the "Republic of Kyrgyzstan", then the Kyrgyz Republic after 1993.
[3] A. Akayev, Pamiatnoe desiatiletie: Trudnaia Doroga k Demokratii, (Moscow, 2002), p.309.
