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This technical note discusses the lessons learned from the financial crisis in Russia in 2008. The note summarizes key findings and recommendations, and analyzes the institutional framework and coordination arrangements for systemic risk monitoring and crisis management. It also covers crisis management tools, deals with legal protection, and assesses crisis prevention measures including approaches to intervene with potential problem institutions at an early stage

This unique book explores the problems of the national crisis management system in Russia, a country undergoing political, social and economic transition and one which is also prone to natural and man-made disasters. In detailing policy, institutional and legal issues and illustrating a number of case studies, the authors offer new ways of resolving the effects of disasters as well as increasing resilience by improving our understanding of the risks and vulnerabilities. In the book six chapters offer case studies of various types of disaster written in a unique collaboration between Russian scientists, Russian policy makers and Swedish scholars. Other chapters relate the role of mass media in Russian society and policy development. Taken together the book details changes in a crisis management system, policy and approach in a country that has undergone rapid fundamental political economic and social change

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to reconstruct both the Kursk incident and especially the reaction to it by Russian military and political authorities with the aim of gauging the extent of continuity and change of Soviet-era practices in three key areas of contemporary Russia's public institutional life: (1) the organizational behaviour and institutional culture of the Russian military; (2) the behaviour of Russia's executive political leadership, i.e. President Vladimir Putin; and (3) the media of mass communication. Reaction to such crises, the author argues, can shed much light on the actual behavioural patterns and operating assumptions of relevant institutions and leaders. The method employed is essentially a detailed forensic reconstruction of the incident and its aftermath from three angles: the reactions of the military authorities; the reactions of Putin; and the reactions of the mass media (and of the authorities to the mass media).The individual is nonsense, the individual is zero.Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1921Human life still costs nothing here.Leonid Radzikhovskii, 2000

Stock values and earnings of Ashland Oil and Exxon were analyzed to determine if a correlation existed between a rapid, positive management response and minimization of the financial impact following an oil spill. The results showed a positive correlation for the company that employed, what experts call, 'good'crisis management techniques.

The paper analyzes some aspects of the crisis management plan of the Russian Government and proves its inefficiency and inconsistency of some of its components, particularly the social policy, with a focus on the Russian industrial enterprises that urgently need the support of the owners and the state, given the crisis state of the economy, extraordinary depreciation of fixed assets, the use of outdated technologies and the existing sanctions policy. Particular attention is paid to the problems of single-industry towns, and a package of measures to be implemented at the federal and regional levels is proposed. The paper also substantiates the necessity to promote the domestic demand as an important factor of the Russian economic growth and the impact thereon of the social policy of the state. The problems of housing and communal services are examined and the results of the industry reformation show that the main "achievement" so far is an unreasonable increase of tariffs for services. The paper analyzes the appropriateness of the introduction of the new tariff components: overhaul payment, establishment of municipal service consumption rates as well as the expediency of increasing the responsibility of management companies as new economic entities. The attention is focused on the increased non-payments in the real sector of the economy and among the population notwithstanding the dramatic growth of penalties for late payments for consumed municipal services. ; В статье анализируются некоторые аспекты антикризисного плана Правительства России, обосновывается его неэффективность, несостоятельность некоторых его составляющих, в том числе социальной политики государства, а также российских промышленных предприятий, которым в условиях кризиса экономики государства, чрезвычайной изношенности основных фондов, применения устаревших технологий, действия санкционной политики остро необходима помощь собственников и государства. Особое внимание уделяется проблемам моногородов, предлагается реализация комплекса мер федерального и регионального уровня. Также обосновывается необходимость стимулирования внутреннего спроса как важной составляющей роста российской экономики и влияния на него социальной политики государства. Исследуются проблемы жилищно-коммунального хозяйства, анализируются результаты реформирования отрасли, где основным «достижением» является необоснованный рост тарифов на его услуги, анализируется целесообразность введения новых составляющих тарифа: платы за капитальный ремонт, установления норм потребления коммунальных услуг, а также обосновывается целесообразность повышения уровня ответственности новых субъектов экономических отношений - управляющих компаний. Акцентировано внимание на увеличении неплатежей субъектов реального сектора экономики и населения, в том числе многократном росте величины штрафных санкций в отношении населения при несвоевременной оплате потребленных коммунальных услуг.