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1	17 February 2021	Presentations, course introduction, basic terms.
2	24 February 2021	Command economy, its functioning. Planning and its deficiencies, Innovations, Pricing system. Reforming of the economies. What were the systemic and what were the changeable features of the regime? Why did all the efforts to change the system fail?
3	3 March 2021	perestroika - reform plans. Was the fall of the Soviet Union inevitable? Was it caused only by economic affairs? What were the true consequences, results?
4	10 March 2021	post-Soviet transformation - approaches, typologies.
5	17 March 2021	Gradualism
6	24 March 2021	state capture, business capture in the post-Soviet Area
7	31 March 2021	politics and economy in the transformation
8	7 April 2021	Authoritarianism in the CIS, non-liberal model of development
9	14 April 2021	1998 - problems and consequences
10	21 April 2021	World financial crisis in the CIS. Did the fall in GDP reflect reality? Crisis in Russia, Economic integration in the CIS - reaction to globalization?
11	28 April 2021	Russia's transformation
12	5 May 2021	Ukraine's transformation
13	12 May 2021	Current challenges