What is the impact that globalization has culturally in Russia?

Globalization eliminates the boundaries between the countries and provides new opportunities.
In spite of all the differences between business cultures, we can’t neglect certain common grounds that constitute business in general. For example, each business deals with profit-orientation, professional development of staff, etc. And, thanks to globalization, today various countries can share and learn from each other in order to adopt new elements in their own operation.
Having been off the market system for many years, and under the pressure of “command” authority, Russia had difficulties to enter the world market. While globalization was already involving all other countries, it did not “touch” Russian business and management styles until the 90th, when the country started reforming its own business style. Now, Russia constitutes a part of the business world and is interconnected with the world system. Russia adopted some well-known management models as well as developed its own business strategies. Employees get more and more appreciation for their knowledge, experience, and creativity. They are also given more choices and responsibilities at the workplace. I think, this indicates the development of a new management style, which has more similarities with American and European ones.

To summarize, globalization provides many opportunities as well as challenges in business. In order to better utilize the opportunities for different countries to operate successfully, under the conditions of cultural diversity, we need to go beyond our cultural stereotypes. Curiosity, openness and strive to reach mutual understanding should become good features for intercultural management. We can learn a lot from each other, but we need to learn to be tolerant and respectful to all the differences we face, when we do business together.

Close to half a century later the experience of youth in the former Soviet Union has little in common with what it meant to be young under state socialism. Russia is a case in point. Here integration into the global economic and political system has had ramifications for the self-identifications of young people. Many young Russians’ cultural practices are today so closely aligned to Western models that cultural homogeneity appears to level youth experience on a transnational scale. At the most general level it is a contribution to the debate over the dynamics between global (Western) and local (Russian) cultural production and exchange. More specifically, the volume contributes to an understanding of how young people negotiate these dynamics on the level of culture in Russia.
Russia has undergone huge economic and political transformations in the post-Soviet era. .







Speaking at the government council session in St. Petersburg, Culture Minister Mikhail Shvydkoi listed threats which exist for Russian culture. First of all, he considers the threat of globalization which is occurring in the entire civilized world in economics, social life, law and everyday life. According to Shvydkoi, this is a call to preserve national culture, and now in many countries for example the Czech Republic they are remembering that they are a Slavic people in order not to dissolve into European culture. Shvydkoi said that it was important to preserve the many colors of Russian culture.
Shvydkoi said the second problem is the rupture in the root of primary culture. 'A generation of artists grew up who did not walk barefoot in the grass in childhood,' he said. Shvydkoi said that it was necessary to return to a full-fledged artistic education in school. Moreover, he warned that culture could go along a commercial path because the market pressures on culture are very strong and culture has had to learn to earn money.
Shvydkoi also said that a large break exists in the financing of culture in Russia.

FATOUMATA DIA

The affect of Globalization on Politics in Russia

Globalisation has become popular in Russia. It has become popular when people around the world have stopped talking about the rise of a new global economy, and instead have begun talking about its crisis.

Russia is often discriminated on the world markets. The process of globalization implies growing competition but it is necessary that it proceed on an equal basis. It's an awful fact that Americanization has already influenced our national mind. The globalisation affect Russia politically by the breakup of the Soviet Union , russia was also defined as a nation in transition to democracy. Democracy and the West are now seen in very negative terms by increasing segments of Russia society. This follows from theories of nationalism that relate its ris to the emergence in a modernizing multiethnic state.

Mame Marie Ndiaye

effects of globalization on russian economy

Le processus de transformation économique a apporté des changements dramatiques pour la société russe et l'économie. The process of economic transformation brought dramatic changes to Russia’s economy. Les résultats économiques décevants de la première décennie de transformation, qui a mis l'instabilité macroéconomique et la pauvreté croissante et les inégalités, sont souvent considérées comme des résultats de l'ouverture de la Russie dans le contexte de la mondialisation. The disappointing economic results of the first decade of transformation, which brought macroeconomic instability and increasing poverty and inequality, are often understood as results of Russia's opening in the context of globalization. Dans cet article, l'impact de la mondialisation sur la Russie est discutée, et il est démontré que la responsabilité de la crise économique n'est pas la mondialisation mais une combinaison de l'héritage de l'économie planifiée, avec des choix politiques incorrectes après le début de la transformation. In this article, the impact of globalization on Russia is discussed, and it is shown that responsibility for the economic crisis is not globalization but a combination of the legacy of the centrally planned economy, together with incorrect policy choices after the beginning of transformation. Les premières tentatives pour transformer la Russie en utilisant la thérapie de choc et d'appliquer quelques règles surnommé le «consensus de Washington" a échoué en raison de la complexité du changement institutionnel. Early attempts to transform Russia using shock therapy and applying a few guidelines dubbed the "Washington consensus" failed due to the complexity of institutional, but change does not mean a failure of market economy and not at all an inevitable consequence of globalization, the conventional wisdom implies. But this does not mean a failure of the market economy and is not at all an inevitable consequence of globalization, as popular misconceptions would imply.
In Russia statics import and export activity, foreign investment, and bilateral and multilateral technical assistance programs reveal that very few regions have been incorporated into global economy.


Ndeye Marie Diakhate

Globilization's affect on Russian society

Russian society has been experiencing dramatic changes that affected the country's politics, economy and social life.
Socially, Western music and other types of pop culture have influenced the Russian Youth. Russian language, as many English words and constructions have become wildly fashionable. Some of the terms borrowed from the languages of countries with a longer capitalistic and technological tradition (like the USA, for example) have corresponding equivalents in Russian, the English terms are being extensively used by the population, as further evidence of the social changes that have taken place in the country. Due to globalization, transnational corporations have quickly emerged.
Poetry has declinedgivingplace to crime fiction,historical and romantic novels.
Drug abuse has come into the open with disastrous consequence; more than 3 million drug addicts. TheRussian Orthodox Church has grown since 1991 after the fallof the Soviet Union, as churches and monasteries have reopened and been restored although the holidays of Easter and Christmas have been reinstated (according to the JulianCalendar). In 1996 about 75 percent of believers in Russia considered themselves Russian Orthodox, 19 percent Muslim, and 7 percent other.Virtually nonexistent rituals such as church weddings have become common, most Russians have remained, if not confessed atheists, quite unobservant.
Doctors are poorly paid and poorly trained. Shortages of nurses, specialized personnel, and medical supplies and equipment persist. The AIDS epidemic has severely increased; the number of HIV positive people has grown from less than 100 in 1989 to an estimated 1 million in 2003.
About 98 percent of population over age fifteen are literate. Constitution guarantees right to free preschool, basic general, and secondary vocational education.In 1995 there were about 500 postsecondary schools in operation, including forty-two universities. In 1994 the construction, industry, and agriculture sectors employed 53.5 percent of the work force, and the services sector employed 37 percent, a distribution typical of developing economies. Unemployment rate has decreased from 7.90 % in 2003 to 6.40% in 2009.
On the sports side, ice hockey and tennis are the most practiced in Russia. It was ranked 3rd in number of both gold and total medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
The past 15 years have been a period of intense international change. Many aspects of international life have experienced rapid transformation having imapcted the Russian society in different aspects that both have pros and cons.

Aissatou Nafi Maiga

STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGAM IN RUSSIA

World Bank Approves Largest-Ever Loan to Russia for Structural Reforms

Structural adjustment is a term used to describe the policy changes implemented by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (the Bretton Woods Institutions) in developing countries. These policy changes are conditions (Conditionalities) for getting new loans from the IMF or World Bank, or for obtaining lower interest rates on existing loans. Conditionalities are implemented to ensure that the money lent will be spent in accordance with the overall goals of the loan. The Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) are created with the goal of reducing the borrowing country's fiscal imbalances.The IMF has helped foster a severe depression in Russia. Russia in the 1990s has witnessed a peacetime economic contraction of unprecedented scale--with the number of Russians in poverty rising from 2 million to 60 million since the IMF came to post-Communist Russia. The IMF's "shock therapy"--sudden and intense structural adjustment--helping bring about this disaster. Given the monopoly structure of the economy, as well as the large amount of cash savings accumulated by Russian households, inflation soared 520 percent in the first three months. Millions of people saw their savings and pensions reduced tocrumbs.

Washington, August 6, 1998 The World Bank today approved a new US$1.5 billion structural adjustment loan to the Russian Federation to support accelerated economic reforms needed to stimulate lasting growth, and to cushion the social impact of the transition to a market economy. The loan - which is part of the US$22.6 billion lending package from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Japanese Government announced last month by the Russian Government - is the largest-ever made by the Bank in Europe and Central Asia. It is also the third in a series of Bank structural adjustment loans made to Russia since June, 1997. The two previous loans totaled US$600 million and US$800 million, respectively.

Agenda for Change

As Russia has completed its first phase of reforms in its transition to a market economy which has reduced inflation, lowered trade tariffs, and ended both price controls and centralized planning, the World Bank believes that the country's immediate priority must be to act in four key areas that will contribute directly to the resumption of growth and the maintenance of economic stability.

Reform of Infrastructure Monopolies

Improving efficiency, transparency, and competition in Russia's electricity, gas, oil, and railways monopolies should produce substantial benefits for the rest of the economy by stimulating lower costs, easing production bottlenecks, and promoting investment.

Private Sector Development

Dynamic private sector development will be key to the resumption of sustained growth in Russia. With price and trade liberalization substantially completed, promoting the private sector will mainly depend on a combination of reforms that would create a fertile business climate.

Fiscal Management

Fiscal reform has become an essential condition for restoring market confidence in Russia's ability to complete its transformation into a market economy. The World Bank believes that the Russian Government is keenly aware of its need for fiscal reform, in particular, sharply reducing government borrowing and improving the way it manages its finances.

Banking Sector Reform

Comprehensive reform of Russia's banking sector is a prerequisite for long-term economic stability and a robust financial system.

This third structural adjustment loan also complements the Bank's previous efforts to support Russia in creating a social protection system that meets the needs of a market economy, in particular a US$800 million Social Protection Adjustment Loan and a US$28.6 million Social Protection Implementation loan approved in June and October 1997, respectively.The loan is repayable in seven years, including a three-year grace period, at the standard LIBOR-based interest rate of US single currency loans. So far, the Bank's commitments to the Russian Federation total about US$11.4 billion for 41 projects.

Aissatou Nafi Maiga