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fellows receive a stipend. Students from other cities are provided with a room in
one of the Moscow hostels.
There is a dissertation council for defending doctorate and candidate degrees on the
specialty " Economics, Planning, and Management of the National Economy"
(08.00.05) . A branch of the macroeconomic regulation and planning department
of the Economics faculty of the Moscow State University is established in the
Institute. The Institute provides special courses to students based on the research
subjects of the Institute. Leading researchers of the Institute are teaching there.
Publishing
Since 1990 a scientific journal "Problemy Prognozirovaniya" has been published in the
Institute. It is published also in English translation as "Studies on Russian
Economic Development" by "MAIK Nauka/ Interperiodica". The publications of the
journal give information on the key economic and social problems in Russia,
present the most significant results of the research at the Institute, and publish a
good amount of statistics and methodological materials.
International Ties
The Institute of Economic Forecasting takes part in international conferences and
symposiums, carries out joint research work, and publishes results in the foreign
press. Among the foreign partners of the Institutes are colleagues from China,
France, Iapan, USA, Republic of Korea, Finland and other countries.
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6. Problems of the Workers’ Movement and Comparative Politology
Institute in Moscow.
Timofeev, Timur T., D. Hist S. Born in 1928 in Ivanovo. Russian historian and
economist. Corresponding member of the Economics department since 1966;
corresponding member of the Problems of World Economics and International
Relations Department of the Academy since August 1988. From 1961 to 1966, he
was Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economics and International
Relations. Since 1966, he has been Director of the International Workers' Movement
Institute in Moscow which is subordinate to the academy's Philosophy and Law
department and which examines problems of the international workers' movement
and of the social composition of the working class both in the USSR and abroad.
His works deal with labor issues, the democratic movement and the theory of
scientific communism. The institute’s name was changed in 1991 to the Problems of
the Workers’ Movement and Comparative Politology Institute. He continues to be its
director. (LDA 89-11378.) (GSE 25, p. 658.)
Retrospect: Established in 1966 as the Institute of the International Workers’ Movement;
in April 1991, the institute was reorganized under its present name. Its Director is
Timur T. Timofeev, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The staff of the institute numbers 294 researchers of whom 36 hold the doctorate
and 137 hold the candidate degree. There is one academician and one corresponding
member of the Russian Academy on the staff of the institute. The structure of the
institute is complex and the best picture of its work may best be shown by the kinds
of research being undertaken by its scientists: under T. T. Timofeev, E. V. Klopov,
B. I. Koval’, A. M. Salmin, and S. V. Patrushev, work is progressing on
“comprehensive study of problems facing various social movements in the changing
world”--that includes topics such as the following: socioeconomic policy and the
dynamics of manpower under S. V. Pronin, R. I. Tsvylev, and G. G. Pirogov;
social and labor conflicts, forms and methods of production democracy in various
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