Category: Russia

The secondary sector, still fundamental both for employment capacity (albeit reduced compared to the last Soviet period due to privatization and productive reconversion) and for participation in the formation of national income, presents diversified activities, based on the enhancement of the abundant raw materials available in the Country, however increasing, like the USSR, the volume…

Mass media in Russia has throughout history been hampered by censorship. However, during the tsar and Soviet times, censorship was practiced with varying degrees of rigor. The last years the Soviet Union existed and the years after the disintegration in the 1990’s, freedom of the press was great. Throughout the 2000’s, the authorities have control…