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The book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services. For two decades, Russian authorities spent much effort and money to improve health administration, but most success stories are borderline fake. The failure is by design; because personalistic regimes rely on personalized exchanges and bargains instead of impersonal rules and permanent organizations, all actors put self-interest ahead of patients' needs. It is a severe problem because authoritarian principals proclaim social betterment as their central goal -- and many Russians take such claims at face value -- but incentivize their agents to imitate progress and tolerate slipshod performance. The benefits of this investigation are three-fold. First, the book provides an analytical framework of bad governance rooted in the rational institutionalist tradition and connected to competence-control theory. Second, it gives a general readership interested in how Russia works a sense of the key political players' mindset and the regime-induced constraints under which elites operate. Third, although the book investigates health governance exclusively, its analytical framework is portable to other issue areas and could be applied to explain how and why Russia evolved into an ineffective, coercive, and predatory state under Putin's leadership. Vlad Kravtsov is Associate Professor of Political Science & Law at Spring Hill College, the US. .

Politics --- History of Eastern Europe --- geschiedenis --- Europese politiek --- Russia --- Europe --- Authoritarianism. --- Health services administration. --- Russia (Federation)

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"Germany's Role in European Russia Policy-A New German Power? provides an innovative framework for analysing how EU-Russia relations might develop well into the twenty-first century." --- Professor Angela Stent, Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University "With her sophisticated, well-researched and astute assessment of Germany's influence on European policies towards Russia, Liana Fix effectively debunks many of the myths about Germany's alleged "hegemony" in Europe. Essential reading for anyone interested in Germany in Europe." --- Professor Hanns W. Maull, Senior Distinguished Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) "This book is highly recommended to anyone who wishes to understand how EU foreign policy emerges from the complex interaction between member states and EU institutions. I particularly hope it will find many readers in Russia, where experts and policy makers alike tend to frame Germany's changing role and policy in terms of traditional great power politics." --- Dr. Sabine Fischer, Team Leader, Public Diplomacy. EU and Russia project, Moscow This book contributes to the debate about a new German power in Europe with an analysis of Germany's role in European Russia policy. It provides an up-to-date account of Germany's "Ostpolitik" and how Germany has influenced EU-Russia relations since the Eastern enlargement in 2004 - partly along, partly against the interests and preferences of new member states. The volume combines a rich empirical analysis of Russia policy with a theory-based perspective on Germany's power and influence in the EU. The findings demonstrate that despite Germany's central role, exercising power within the EU is dependent on legitimacy and acceptance by other member states. Liana Fix is a historian and political scientist. In her work, she focuses on German foreign policy, Russia and Eastern Europe as well as European security and has published widely in academia, think tanks and national and international media. She completed a doctorate degree at the Justus Liebig University Giessen and a Master's degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- History --- buitenlandse politiek --- geschiedenis --- politiek --- wereldpolitiek --- Europese politiek --- internationale betrekkingen --- Europe --- European Union countries --- Russia (Federation) --- Germany --- Foreign relations

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This book presents unique results of complex studies from the all-Russian longitudinal study "Grow with Russia". In the framework of the cultural-historical concept, it focuses on the social situation of development, which is organized by adults, and its influence on cognitive and emotional development of children. It examines the role of the traditional play in children's development in modern conditions. The book explores the changes in social situation of development due to the digitalization of the world and its impact on child development, child groups and play development. The book searches for cognitive cultural tools as means of concept acquisition by preschool children in different domains as well as key factors that influence effectiveness of different cultural tools usage. This book provides international perspectives, making results from the study applicable to different cultural contexts.

Educational psychology --- Educational systems. Teaching systems --- Kindergarten --- pedagogische psychologie --- kleuterdidactiek --- peuters --- Child development. --- Psicologia de l'aprenentatge --- Psicologia pedagògica --- Rússia --- Russia (Federation) --- Social conditions.

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Fiction --- inhoudsanalyse --- jeugdliteratuur --- Fairy tales --- Tales --- Classification. --- Classification --- Structural analysis. --- Structural analysis --- Fairy tales. --- Afanasʹev, A. N. --- Narodnye russkie skazki (Afanasʹev, A. N.). --- Russia (Federation). --- Folklore --- morphology [linguistics] --- folklore --- folk tales --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- folklore [discipline]

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Kabakov, Ilya --- Installation-art --- Installations (Art) --- Artists' preparatory studies --- Sculpteur --- Peintre --- Exhibitions --- Kabakov, Ilʹi͡a Iosifovich, --- Jespers, Oscar --- Russie --- Belgique --- Exhibitions. --- kunst --- twintigste eeuw --- installaties --- Kabakov Ilya --- Rusland --- Sovjet-Unie --- 7.071 KABAKOV --- installatiekunst --- Kabakov, Ilija Iosefovich --- Installation art --- Art, Modern --- Environment (Art) --- Preliminary sketches (Art) --- Preparatory studies (Art) --- Presentation drawings (Art) --- Sketches, Preparatory (Art) --- Working drawings (Art) --- Art --- Kabakov, Ilʹi︠a︡ Iosifovich, --- Кабаков, Илья Иосифович, --- Kabakov, Ilya Iossifovich, --- Kabakov, Ilja, --- Kabakow, Ilja Jossifowitsch, --- Кошелев, Степан Яковлевич, --- Koshelev, Stepan I︠A︡kovlevich, --- CDL --- Installations (Art) - Russia (Federation) - Exhibitions --- Artists' preparatory studies - Russia (Federation) - Exhibitions --- Kabakov, Ilʹi͡a Iosifovich, - 1933- - Exhibitions --- Kabakov, Ilʹi͡a Iosifovich, - 1933 --- -Kabakov, Ilya