News from the Web: Review the regional news headlines at right, or go to our more comprehensive news pages for eastern Europe and Russia/former Soviet Union.
Trade Leads and other business opportunities in the region's environmental sector, from BISNIS and CEEBIC at the US Department of Commerce
See also our list of suggested useful books on politics and economic policy in the region (described below).
Useful books: visit the Bookshop for a selection of suggested readings on economic and political affairs available for purchase from Amazon.com.
Regional Links: The Regional Links pages include links to web sites covering politics, economic policy and business in individual countries or the entire central and east European region. You may also find some useful sites in our environmental and health care links collections.
Okno Web Archive includes our country Facts & Figures pages which contain basic political and economic data, as well as links to policy briefs for each country or region. Please note that these pages are no longer updated.
Okno Publications: Okno Group's main publications are the print East/West Letter: Environment & Health and the electronic monthly E&H Online. We also publish a series of Occasional Papers that includes titles on regional business matters. Titles of interest include:
- No. 11: Joining the Club: Consequences for EU Membership for Eastern Europe. By David L. Bartlett (Forthcoming). This timely assessment of the impact of EU accession on the candidate members from eastern Europe examines the regulatory consequences of membership as well as the effect on corporate strategy in the region, and includes several sector case studies.
- No. 7: Tax Policy in Wonderland: The Law and Reality of Russian Taxation. By Oksana Baidina (November 1996) $30. An unvarnished review of Russian taxes and how they do and do not work; including an overview of the current tax system and a detailed picture of how and why the system fails.
Visit the Okno Bookshop for subscription and ordering information.
Online Publication Archive: Our growing collection of article reprints and issues available online provides a wealth of information about business and economic policy in the region. Article highlights include:
Tables of contents for past issues of the print Environment & Health and the East/West Letter are available, and includes links to articles available online. [no frames versions: E&H, E/W Letter]
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