Comprehensive Study on Integration of Russia into the World Economy

这项研究通过对俄罗斯官方统计数据的透彻分析，包括国民账户体系、投入产出表、国际收支平衡表、财政资源流动和预算统计，揭示了石油和天然气在理解俄罗斯融入世界经济方面的关键重要性。特别是，我们在世界上首次展示了石油和天然气行业产生的利润在俄罗斯的统计中被记录在贸易部门，它们代表了资本外逃的来源。我们在札幌组织的国际研讨会和美国学术会议的小组会议上展示了这些成果。这些结果发表在几个国际期刊上。同时，我们对俄罗斯上述统计数据的可靠性进行了调查。这些调查是与俄罗斯统计局的统计人员共同进行的，调查结果也发表在国际期刊上。我们特别强调了独联体组织在俄罗斯融入世界经济进程中所发挥的作用。我们组织了一批学者从国际关系学、证券学、经济学、政治学、社会学等不同学科的角度对独联体进行研究。我们的贡献是对独联体在苏联解体后的这十年中发挥的作用，特别是在防止大规模国际和国内冲突以及提供各种调整和谈判机会方面的作用给予了相当积极的评价。我们在日本首次出版了一本关于独联体的书，并提出了这些想法。

This study revealed the key importance of the oil and natural gas in understanding the Russia's integration into the world economy through a thorough analysis of Russia's official statistics, including SNA (system of national accounts), input-output tables, balance of payments, flow of financial resources and budgetary statistics. Especially, we demonstrated for the first time in the world that profits generated in oil and gas sector were recorded in trade sector in Russia's statistics and they represented the sources for capital flights. We presented these results at the international symposium that we organized in Sapporo and also at panels in academic meetings in the US. These results were published in several international journals. Simultaneously, we investigated the soundness of the above-mentioned Russian statistics. These investigations were carried out as a joint work with statisticians of the Russia's statistical office, and results were also published in international journals.We put special emphasis on the role played by the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) organization in the process of Russia's integration into the world economy. We organized a group of scholars who studied the CIS from the standpoint of different disciplines such as international relations, securities, economics, politics, sociology and so on. Our contribution is a rather positive evaluation of the role of the CIS in these ten years after the collapse of the USSR, especially in the role of preventing large-scale international and domestic conflicts and of providing various opportunities for adjustment and negotiations. We published for the first time in Japan a book on the CIS and presented these ideas.