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Economic Development in Russia : Special Section
- 2015
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This 70-page special section “Economic development in Russia” of the Swedish scholarly academic journal "Baltic Worlds" contains six peer-reviewed articles on recent developments in Russian economy, an interview with professor Andrei Yakovlev of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and introduction written by the section's academic guest editor, PhD Ilja Viktorov.Contents:Andrei Yakovlev. Russian economy at the crossroads, before and beyond the Ukrainian crisis, interview with Ilja ViktorovAnton Oleinik. Price of opulence. On a constellation of interests in the European market for natural gasLeo Granberg & Ann-Mari Sätre. Agency and development in second Russia: using opportunities in a local contextOlga Golubeva. Business climate in Russia: Swedish investors’ perspectiveSusanne Oxenstierna. Prospects for institutional reform in the Russian economyMi Lennhag. The rise of anti-corruption demands: The Ukrainian Maidan movement as different from everyday discussions in RussiaAlexander Abramov, Maria Chernova, Alexander Radygin. Financial markets regulation in Russia: models, evolution, efficiency
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- Khaspekov, Leonid, et al.
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Cyclosporin A and its nonimmunosuppressive analogue N-Me-Val-4-cyclosporin A mitigate glucose/oxygen deprivation-induced damage to rat cultured hippocampal neurons
- 1999
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Ingår i: European Journal of Neuroscience. - : Wiley. - 0953-816X. ; 11:9, s. 3194-3198
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When mouse hippocampal neuronal cultures, 2-3 weeks in vitro, were transiently exposed to combined glucose and oxygen deprivation (100% argon, 5% CO2, in glucose-free medium) for 90 min, extensive neuronal degeneration had occurred after 24 h of reoxygenation. When these cultures were preincubated with cyclosporin A, a calcineurin inhibitor and a blocker of the mitochondrial permeability transition, neuronal death diminished by 30-50%. Similarly, the cyclosporin A analogue, N-Me-Val-4-cyclosporin A, a potent blocker of the mitochondrial permeability transition with no significant calcineurin blocking activity, decreased cell death by 70-80%. Both cyclosporin A and N-Me-Val-4-cyclosporin A markedly attenuated calcium-induced swelling of isolated mouse brain mitochondria by blocking the mitochondrial permeability transition. The potassium thiocyanate-stabilized binding of cyclophilin D to mouse brain mitochondrial membranes was completely prevented by cyclosporin A and N-Me-Val-4-cyclosporin A. Our results strongly suggest that the mitochondrial permeability transition is involved in oxygen/glucose deprivation-induced cell death in vitro. Cyclophilin D and other components of the mitochondrial permeability transition may be important targets for neuroprotective and anti-ischaemic drugs.
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- Viktorov, Ilja, 1979-
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Corporate Raiding in post-Soviet Russia
- 2013
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Ingår i: Baltic Worlds. - 2000-2955 .- 2001-7308. ; VI:2, s. 4-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hostile takeovers and company captures have been an everyday reality in the post-Soviet Russian economy. This phenomenon is called “reiderstvo” in Russian, a term which is derived from the English word "raiding”. The article introduces the reader into the subject, identifies the main historical phases of "reiderstvo" during the 1990s and 2000s, provides description of a typical raiding attack and connects the "reiderstvo" phenomenon to activities of informal networks in the Russian business and state apparatus.
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- Viktorov, Ilja, 1979-
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Fordismens kris och löntagarfonder i Sverige
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- One of the most controversial debates in contemporary Swedish history centred on a proposal to create “wage-earner” funds. The main institutional actors of Swedish society were involved in this debate during the 1970s and 1980s. The aim of this thesis is to analyze how the most important institutional actors in Sweden, namely LO, the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) and the Swedish Employer Confederation (SAF), participated in and defined themselves in the wage-earner funds debate, against the background of the crisis of the Swedish Fordism, i.e. the mass production society.Chapter 2 consists of an analysis of those inherent features of Swedish Fordism that potentially could imply dissolution of the Fordist society in Sweden after the 1960s. Chapter 3 investigates debates about wage solidarity policy and the concentration of power and ownership in the Swedish economy that resulted in the LO wage-earner funds proposal from 1975. Chapter 4 discusses the opinions of active members in LO regarding the wage-earner funds proposals from 1975 and 1978.Chapter 5 investigates the Social Democratic Party's relationship to wage-earner funds. The chapter surmises that SAP leaders took a pragmatic attitude towards funds. This pragmatism differed from the opinion expressed by the radical activists in the party.Chapter 6 deals with the reaction of the Swedish Employer Confederation to the wage-earner funds proposal. The SAF anti-fund campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s are investigated in detail in the context of a neoliberal ideological offensive in Sweden. The chapter argues that the decision to abandon the centralized wage bargaining model influenced SAF's strategy in the debate over wage-earner funds.The dissertation’s main conclusion is that the radical wings of LO and SAP as well as the SAP leaders and the Swedish employers all used the mobilization around wage-earner funds for their own political purposes to solve problems resulting from the crisis of Swedish Fordism.
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- Viktorov, Ilja, 1979-
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Insider trading (USA/general)
- 2018
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Ingår i: The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 2. - London : UCL Press. - 9781787351912 - 9781787351929 ; , s. 233-236
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The entry provides a brief introduction into insider trading as an informal practice in stock markets, with emphasis on the US historical experience. Examples from Russia and Nigeria as emerging markets are also provided.
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- Viktorov, Ilja, 1979-
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Kompromiss vo imja rosta : Povyšenije doverija obščestva k elitam v Švecii (1930-1960-e gody)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Obščestvennyje nauki i sovremennost. - 0869-0499. ; :3, s. 54-71
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A compromise in the name of growth: increasing public confidence in the elites in Sweden (1930s – 1960s)The paper deals with historical prerequisites and basic elements of the Swedish elite compromise as it emerged in Sweden in time of the advancement and culmination of mass production in this country between the 1930s and 1960s. A special vision of the future, namely the society of “the people’s home” formulated by the Swedish social democrats in the 1930s, is under focus. The paper takes up briefly reforms introduced in subsequent decades, which transformed Sweden into one of the most affluent and economically developed nations in the world in the second half of the 20th century. It analyses the role played for the compromise by the main elite groups, including the business elites, leaders of political parties, employer organisations and trade unions, as well as by intellectual elite. The paper discusses which lessons of the Swedish experience can be of relevance for contemporary Russia. It suggests that a transition to a more justice and affluent open-access society does not necessarily entail increase in social mobility in this society, as this has been the case in Sweden.
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- Viktorov, Ilja, 1979-, et al.
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Presidential Succession in Russia : Political Cycles and Intra-Elite Conflicts
- 2023
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Ingår i: Russian Politics. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 2451-8913 .- 2451-8921. ; 8:1, s. 97-121
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the issue of Putin's presidential successor from a historical perspective of long-term political cycles. Contemporary Russia still shows considerable similarities to the polities, characteristic of old agrarian empires in Asia. Based on the thesis on the origins of the monocentric political system in Russia, our article analyses how the transition of presidential power takes place in Russia, who might be the next president of Russia and whether we will see a new 'time of troubles', or smuta, after Putin's departure. A generational change in Putin's elite cohort will require a specific candidate to ensure a successful transition as a long-term solution. This will involve balancing clashing interests between key informal power networks. In all likelihood, a repeat of a political cycle of empires will happen in Russia again, resulting in a continued consolidation of its monocentric political system.
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- Viktorov, Ilja, 1979-
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Russia’s Network State and Reiderstvo Practices : The Roots to Weak Property Rights Protection after the post-Communist Transition
- 2019
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Ingår i: Stubborn Structures. - Budapest : Central European University Press. - 9789633862148 ; , s. 437-459
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter introduces the reader into developments of illegal corporate raiding ("reiderstvo" in Russian) in post-Communist Russia and explains its interdependency with privatization in the 1990s and persistence of weak property rights protection that followed. It connects the issue to the concept of Russia's network state enabling understanding of how existence and interaction of informal power networks facilitate redistribution of property and economic assets. Typology of reiderstvo is presented in historical perspective and a number of empirical cases of reiderstvo from the 1990s until 2010s are discussed. In particular, the role played by representatives of security services in the state apparatus and business (“siloviki” in Russian) for increase of reiderstvo after 2000 is stressed.
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- Viktorov, Ilja, 1979-, et al.
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The 2014–15 Financial Crisis in Russia and the Foundations of Weak Monetary Power Autonomy in the International Political Economy
- 2020
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Ingår i: New Political Economy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1356-3467 .- 1469-9923. ; 24:5, s. 487-510
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article contributes to international political economy debates about the monetary power autonomy (MPA) of emerging market and developing countries (EMDs). The 2014-15 Russian financial crisis is used as a case study to explore why an accumulation of large international reserves does not provide protection against currency crises and macroeconomic adjustments in EMDs. The analysis centres on the interplay between two dimensions of MPA: the Power to Delay and the Power to Deflect adjustment costs. Two structural factors condition Russia's low MPA. First, the country's subordinated integration in global financial markets increases its financial vulnerability. The composition of external assets and liabilities, combined with cross-border capital flows, restrict the use of international reserves to delay currency crises. Second, the choice of a particular macroeconomic policy regime embraced the financialisation of the - mainly state-owned - Russian banking sector, thus making it difficult to transform liquidity inflows into credits for enterprises. Russia's main comparative advantage, hydrocarbon export revenues, is not exploited. The type of economy created due to the post-Communist transition means that provided excessive' liquidity remains in the financial system and is channelled into currency arbitrage. This factor increases exchange rate vulnerability and undermines Russia's MPA.
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