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Since 2012, with a view to strengthen the development of strategically important regions, Russia has established several federal agencies responsible for these territories. The essay investigates one of these agencies: the Ministry for the Development of the Far East (Ministerstvo Rossiiskoi Federatsii po razvitiyu Dal’nego Vostoka). We identify two main trade-offs associated with the governance approach used in Russia—between federal power and local knowledge, and between bureaucratic expertise and novel ideas—and examine how the ministry has dealt with these trade-offs and their consequences for the ministry’s performance.

Regional authorities consider the expediency of developing a new cargo transportation hub in the region in which it would provide transshipment services. It is considered that each transportation operator working in the region will use these services only if they are competitive with the currently existing ones. This competitiveness for a particular cargo means that the total transportation tariff for moving this cargo does not exceed (substantially or in principle) the (minimal) currently existing one as a result of including a transshipment via the hub in the transportation scheme for the cargo. A verifiable sufficient condition for the transshipment service competitiveness is proposed. Its verification consists of establishing the solvability of a system of linear inequalities being part of the system of constraints in the problem of finding optimal competitive transshipment tariffs for a set of cargoes expected to be moved via the hub. The latter problem is formulated as a quadratic programming one.

The article explores the place of the concept of rights and freedoms in the discourse of the European populist radical right. By applying instruments of critical discourse analysis to electoral speeches of Marine Le Pen and Jarosław Kaczyński, the leaders of two very dissimilar EU PRR parties, the Rassemblement National and the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, it demonstrates how the PRR instrumentalises references to rights and freedoms to discursively create and qualify the identities of social actors. The analysis shows that references to rights and freedoms are used as a coherent discursive strategy to construct social actors in accordance with the populist radical right ideological core of nativism, authoritarianism, and populism. As the PRR identifies itself with the people, defined along nativist and populist lines, rights are primarily attributed to it. The PRR itself is represented as the defender of the people and its rights, while the elites and the aliens are predicated to threaten the people and the realisation of its rights. The concept of rights and freedoms in populist radical right discourse intrinsically links the individual with the collective, which, in its turn, allows to construct and promote a populist model of ethnic democracy.

Оценки валового городского продукта (ВГП), ВГП на душу населения и темпов роста ВГП сравниваются с уровнем и эволюцией валового внутреннего продукта (ВВП) и валового регионального продукта (ВРП) для изучения взаимосвязей между структурой городской экономики и экономическим развитием. Агломерационные эффекты проявляются в крупнейших столичных городах российских регионов, но выгоды существенно различаются между столичными городами, поскольку зависят от структуры экономики и ее эффективности. Проверка гипотезы о том, что жилищное строительство является движущей силой экономического роста столичных экономик, была отвергнута, поскольку в большинстве городов не было обнаружено причинно-следственной связи между жилищным строительством и ВГП.