... low-income tiers of the labour market. One of the most significant factors affecting the global labour market was the reduction in migration flows, which resulted in the exacerbation of labour shortages across the major migrant recipient countries, such as Russia. There was also a notable blow delivered by the pandemic to the spheres of human capital development such as education and healthcare, which in turn exacerbated the imbalances and shortages in these areas. In particular, according to the estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO) shortages can ...
... open again (this is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future), the emergence of such infrastructure and the habit of taking holidays without going abroad will further contribute to the localisation of the interests of Russian citizens.
Thus, for Russia, the pandemic has become an important factor in national cohesion and the localisation of interests within its own borders, the real consequences of which we will be aware of in the coming years. First of all, we can talk about the understanding that internal ...
... sanctions). However, the divergence began to grow markedly in 2017, and was later on significantly magnified by the Covid crisis.
Indeed, the Covid crisis generated notable differentiation across sectors as some were disproportionately affected by the pandemic and quarantine measures (tourism, travel), while others were given a major boost (telecommunications, IT and computer services). Russia’s macroeconomic policy, including sectoral taxation patterns, may have contributed to the differentiation patterns observed throughout the economy. Apart from Russia-specific factors, global sectoral factors may have also contributed to the patterns ...
... effect of economic crises on innovation is far from straightforward. On the one hand, severe crises such as the current Covid pandemic create tremendous uncertainty, which constrains investment and renders corporate development strategies less forward-looking ... ... economic model, in particular the degree to which it favours the development of “human capital”. The ultimate challenge for Russia will be to forge ahead with innovations and improvements in economic policies without the need to wait for the coming of ...
... allied commitments in NATO and the European Union? I believe it is important to focus now on helping the experts and professionals to develop a vaccine instead of trying to derive some geopolitical, electoral or other advantages.
Question:
When the pandemic is over and the vaccine is created, will Russia support the idea of investigating how everything began and why this happened? Or are there no grounds for this based on what you have said?
Sergey Lavrov:
I have already talked about this. I would not call this an investigation but the need to ...
... in Russia, and the Russians complained that the Chinese did not readily share with them all the information available about the virus.
In their direct communication, presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping managed to iron out these early tensions. Russian state-owned media praised the Chinese handling of the pandemic, and even continuously broadcast Chinese TV’s own accounts of the battle with the virus. Responding to an early token shipment of masks from Russia to China, Beijing later sent a large amount of medical supplies and a team of doctors to Russia....
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On March 24 Sergey Lavrov delivered a message to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo (
https://www.mid.ru/…/asset…/D2wHaWMCU6Od/content/id/4094236…
). The Minister urged to consider the possibility of return to the home country for all the Russian citizens incarcerated in the U.S. In addition, I personally addressed to Attorney-General W.Barr and head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons M.Carvajal on the destiny of my compatriots (
https://www.facebook.com/…/a.493759737501…/1286416334902087/
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It is difficult to talk about any specific guilt of the Chinese leadership for a pandemic in this light. Exactly the same blunder fluctuations with the introduction of draconian anti-epidemic measures due to a delay in the arrival of reinforced concrete scientific justifications, was repeated by all other large countries in the world ...
... just reads those texts immediately understands a great deal. It causes nothing but a smile because the people who write these things expose themselves in full view.
The political striptease we are observing against the background of the coronavirus pandemic is not very attractive and makes you want to look away. This time will pass, and other times will come. People will encounter different problems but we will still hear the same tunes about Russian disinformation, about our driving in wedges, and sow insecurity, and about one or another authoritarian regime trying to thrive on somebody else’s misfortune and to gain geopolitical advantages.
I can make a parody of such instructions, and ...
... entrusted to me: last Saturday the leaders of the viewing turned out to be a special report on the history of the fight against pandemics in 14
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centuries (the only thing that actually worked back then was the quarantine, too) and a ... ..., energy gurus, of course, actively participated in the survey after the events in Vienna (by the way, nobody pushed the non-Russian experts to talk his way, but they’ve made a couple of revealing comments regarding the true role played by the Saudis)....
