CONTENTS

Volume 5, 2004

Investment CLIMATE

Yuri YERSHOV. Russia’s power strategy up to 2020: the new power policy advantages and drawbacks

The crucial role of the fuel and power complex in the Russian economy and politics calls for the medium and long term programs of its development. The paper deals with many aspects of the today national economy.

Yorg JASPER, Guzel GUMAROVA, Elmira SHAIMIYEVA. The analysis of the progress and determinants of foreign investment in the Republic of Tatarstan

Tatarstan boasts of its welfare due to abundant mineral resources. The foreign investments are analyzed for the period of 1995 - 2001 with a particular stress of the petrochemical, and oil and gas sectors.

Rudolf ZIMENKOV. USA economical relations with Latin America and Caribbean countries

Traditionally Latin America is a test ground for the USA economic policy relating to the third world countries. This region is open to US direct investment. The US assets reached there $ 540 billion, more than in Asia and Africa together.

Investment MARKET

Victor MOSKVIN. Evolution of quality control

Quality control on one hand follows the production progress, on the other hand establishes conditions for developing principally new efficient technologies of manufacturing competitive products. Obviously the quality control systems of various companies are at different levels of their evolution.

Leonid RATHKEEN. Investment in the electronic industry: Russian defense industry problems and prospects

Analysis of major problems facing the native and foreign investors to the Russian defense and electronic business. Various alternatives are considered.

Sergei PASHUTIN. Import substitute trends in the medicine market

The Russian manufacturers are succeeding in substituting the imported medicines. However so far there is neither a satisfactory analysis of import substitute trends nor a clear description of this phenomenon. The author attempts to mend the situation.

Innovation

Gennadi ZINCHENKO, Boris ZINCHENKO. Double the NDP in ten years: the frame indicators of innovation capital management (a calculation procedure for executive authorities)

The current task of the national economy is to calculate and define particular macro- and micro-parameters of the country development aimed at doubling the GDP by 2010. However the lack of indicating parameters of the current reproduction efficiency gives rise to just doubts in possibility of realizing the President’s direction.