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This book examines the major economic and political transitions currently taking place in the Eurasian continent. Libman and Vinokurov provide a detailed account of various aspects of Eurasian integration, looking at both its bright side (trade, investments and joint infrastructure) and dark side (trafficking humans and drugs and the spread of diseases) and linking it to waves of 'Eurasian exchanges' in the past. The authors explore how political reality adapts and shapes the changing networks of economic interconnections and delineate a concept of 'pragmatic Eurasianism' necessary for understanding these linkages and sharply contrasting to the heavily ideological views of Eurasia that often dominate the political and social discussions.

An in-depth analysis of one of the most important and complex issues of the post-Soviet era, namely the (re- )integration of this highly interconnected region. The book considers the evolution of 'holding-together' groups since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, looking at intergovernmental interaction and informal economic and social ties.

The study attempts to conduct the content analysis of yasak statements compiled in 1776 by E. Kychkin. The purpose of this study is to determine the features of the semantic system of the connections between people and animals within the framework of historical anthroponymy of the pre-Christian period. The novelty of the research lies in the introduction into scientific circulation of the unique document that recorded in onetime period within the local habitat of the Vilyui group of the Yakuts the number and names of yasak payers. As a result, it is revealed that the usage of zoomorphic names and totems in pre-Christian culture was one of the ways of mental exploration of space.

In Yakutia for 30 thousand years people live, and for centuries they were constantly fighting with the cold for survival [5, 6]. Situation began to change only in the second half of the twentieth century. In 20-ies of the last century a campaign for the reconstruction of traditional Yakut home began. As a result of the transition from balagan (yurts) to houses with stove heating, and then to centralized and gas heating, the temperature inside residential buildings has significantly increased. A fairly extensive literature has now accumulated linking rising residential temperatures with obesity-related morbidity.
In order to determine the role of climate warming, an increase in the average temperature in the houses of the region, and changes in the diet on the incidence of type 2 diabetes, we built a multiple regression equation with 10 factors over 20 years (1994-2013). The following factors were included in the multiple regression model: the average annual temperature in Yakutsk, the average temperature of houses in the region during the heating period, the consumption of vegetables, fruits, sugar, proteins, fats, carbohydrates per year per person, and the daily calorie content of the diet.
The conducted studies made it possible to find out that there are positive linear statistically significant pair correlations between the incidence of DM2 and the consumption of fruits and berries, the average housing temperature, the consumption of vegetables and melons, and the calorie content of the diet, but when analyzing multiple regression, the role of each factor in the development of DM2 turns out to be statistically unreliable, except the level of consumption of fruits and berries (at p > 0.05). It should be noted that a sharp increase in the incidence of DM2 in the population of Yakutia (including indigenous people) is associated with many factors, but the role of increased consumption of fruits and berries in its development should be considered causal, probably due to the lack of adaptation of the body of northerners to intake of large amounts of fructose, with a high level of fat intake.

The article deals with the economic activity of the Russian population both in general and in the gender aspect. The main attention in the work is focused on the relationship between the economic activity of population and wages. The objectives of the work are, firstly, to identify differences in the behavior of men and women in the labor market in terms of economic activity, and, secondly, to test the hypothesis on the relationship between the economic activity of population and wages. The article provides an overview of the factors affecting the size of labor force and the level of participation in it, as well as statistical data reflecting male and female economic activity in modern Russia. Analysis of the labor activity dynamics leads to the conclusion that there are significant differences in male and female behavior in the labor market. The main cause of these differences is the traditional views of the population on the roles of men and women in society. Also the regression equations connecting the level of economic activity with the average real wage are determined both for the population of the Russian Federation as a whole, and for men and women separately. These equations can be considered as modified functions of the labor supply. Calculations have shown that, despite the general linear nature of the dependence of the economic activity level of population on real wages, its growth leads, ceteris paribus, to an accelerating increase in the activity of men and a slowing increase in the activity of women. The revealed low elasticity of labor supply functions indicates that any significant impact on the level of labor activity can only be provided by significant increase in real wages. First of all, the last statement applies to women.

AbstractThe institutions and instruments of the Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN) represent the part of the global financial architecture that is responsible for providing an anti‐crisis and stabilization support to the countries in need. We argue that the standard understanding of the GFSN as a system consisting of four layers – national reserves, bilateral swaps, regional financing arrangements and the IMF – demands rethinking. We suggest the concept of an enlarged GFSN, namely its expansion by two additional elements – multilateral development banks and bilateral financial support. Both elements of the international financial architecture are partly involved in providing an anti‐crisis and macroeconomic stabilization support at concessional terms. We demonstrate how the enlarged GFSN functions, including at the time of the COVID‐19 crisis.

This paper deals with a potential long-term cooperation agenda of the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) on the movement of people. The paper provides a brief technical background on five various issues. It argues for the visa-free regime; advancing large-scale academic exchanges; introducing the mobility of trans-border pensions between two integration blocs; and partial recognition of professional certificates and diplomas. At the same time, authors argue against prematurely raising the issue of the labour migration in the EU-EAEU context.

This paper deals with a potential long-term cooperation agenda of the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) on the movement of people. The paper provides a brief technical background on five various issues. It argues for the visa-free regime; advancing large-scale academic exchanges; introducing the mobility of trans-border pensions between two integration blocs; and partial recognition of professional certificates and diplomas. At the same time, authors argue against prematurely raising the issue of the labour migration in the EU-EAEU context.