2. Review of each country's statistical sources in relation to home and work, exclusion, violence, health. 3. Review of governmental and quasi-governmental legal and policy statements that explicitly address men. 4. Review of two (noncontiguous) weeks' national press output to examine explicit and implicit analyses on men and masculinities, and their problematization.In each case, national reports, as well as a summary report, are being written. Information OutreachThe research network also acts as an information resource for other researchers, policy makers, and practitioners for the future. Currently, it is either actively seeking, or planning, to achieve this in a number of ways including the following:1. The Web-based European Database/European Documentation Centre on men. This Database and Documentation Centre became operational toward the end of 2000. They are located at the Web site of the allied and "umbrella" organization, Critical Research on Men in Europe (CROME) (www. cromenet.org). The national reports and the cross-Europe summaries are available at that site. 2. Published articles, conference papers, and edited volumes. 3. Several interface workshops and an international conference, involving network members and key personnel in terms of research/policy-making/ practice, and specifically geared to making key outcomes more widely known. 4. Linking with other researchers in other countries in Europe and beyond.

In the nineteenth century, Dahomey amazon shows, traveling circuses with menageries and 'African villages,' emerged as part of the transnational entertainment industry. This article extends the geography of this global model and generic system and its role in the visual politics of whiteness and blackness in a context outside the imperial colonization of Africa. The first sections examine a rise of visuality in the Russian imperial imagination of race, Africa and blackness through a 'symptomatic' reading of Aleksandr Griboedov's play Woe from Wit and Arkadii Averchenko's Death of an African Hunter. These are followed by a discussion of the Dahomey amazon shows in Moscow and their significance in the Russian cultural imagination of Africa and blackness, Europe and whiteness. The discussion of the Dahomey amazon shows in Riga unravels the complexities of interaction between the global visual model and its reception in the Baltic colonies of the Russian empire. 1

This article is one the work of The European Research Network on Men in Europe project “The Social Problem and Societal Problematization of Men and Masculinities” (2000-2003), funded by the European Commission. The Network comprises women and men researchers with range of disciplinary backgrounds from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom. The Network's initial focus is on men's relations to home and work, social exclusion, violences, and health. Some of findings on the Network's second phase of work, namely the review of statistical sources on men's practices in the ten countries, are presented. This is the second of four articles reviewing critical studies on men in the ten countries through different methods and approaches.

Since the early 1990s, the Baltic states have gone through processes of economic transition and liberalization. Although various reports give an overview of gendered impacts of these economic reforms, they fail to elaborate on the more complex relations between gender, citizenship, and social exclusion. This article explores these relations in more detail. The first decade of reforms in the Baltic states resulted in a lack of economic prospects, in particular for women from minority groups and women working in lowpay sectors. This made them increasingly vulnerable to trafficking for sexual purposes: migration to Western Europe was an attractive alternative for those without work, whether through legal or illegal migration channels. The failure to address this issue and other issues effectively cannot be attributed to the European level only. This argues that effective mainstreaming is also hampered by rapid changes in national governments, by political ideologies regarding the role of women, and by a lack of information and expertise within newly established gender-equality units.Résumé Depuis le début des années 90 les Etats Baltes ont entrepris des processus de transition et de libéralisation économiques. Bien que de nombreux rapports présentent une vue d'ensemble des impacts en terme de genre de ces réformes économiques, ils n'ont pas développé les relations complexes entre genre, citoyenneté et exclusion sociale. Cet article explore cette relation en détail. La première décennie de réformes dans les Etats baltes a eu pour conséquence une absence de perspectives économique en particulier pour les femmes appartenant à des minorités ethniques et travaillant dans des secteurs à bas salaires. Ceci les a rendu extrêmement vulnérable au trafic d'êtres humains: la migration vers l'Ouest constituait une alternative attirante pour celles qui n'avaient pas d'emploi, qui se soit légalement ou non. Cet échec à prendre en compte ce risque et d'autres aspects qui lui sont liés ne peut être attribué seulement à l'Union européenne. Cet article argue également que un «mainstreaming» efficace a également été gêné par les changements rapides des gouvernements nationaux, par les idéologies politiques sur le rôle des femmes et par le manque d'information et d'expertise des nouvellement établies unités d'égalité des genres.

УДК 331.5 JEL: J5 В. Н. Бобков а, б) , В. Г. Квачев б) , И. В. Новикова а) а) Институт социально-экономических проблем народонаселения РАН

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Topicality. The growing instability of economic systems, the transition of the global market space from a stationary state to a large extent during an extraordinary period are accompanied by an intensification of interregional and international competition for resources and factors of expanded reproduction. This is associated with such significant structural changes and transformations that they actualize the search and justification of new strategic vectors of socio-economic development of national economies for the period of “post-normality” and a longer extraordinary period. It is the application of an effective strategizing methodology that allows the developers of any strategy to focus on the search for new strategic opportunities and breakthrough transformations, focuses on determining and choosing the right and long-term vector of development of the strategizing object. The authors emphasize that “new horizons” strategies or innovative development strategies based on technological competitive advantages are the most effective, which, in the context of limited access to imports of high-tech developments and the impossibility of their cross-border transfer, in particular to Russia, forms a predominant focus on the avant-garde domestic technological developments in the justification of strategic priorities. This causes the activation of processes to form the national economy technological sovereignty and emphasizes its strategic importance.   Aim. Determine the basic directions of strategizing the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty.   Tasks. Designate the strategic role of scientific and industrial sectors in the process of national economy transition to technological independence, formulate the financial and the human resources development aspects of strategizing the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty.   Methods. The scientific research is based on the general theory of Strategy and strategizing methodology developed by the Center for Strategic Research at the Institute of Mathematical Research of Complex Systems and the Economic and Financial Strategy Department at Moscow School of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University with the leadership of Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor Vladimir L. Kvint.   Results. The authors have shown the relationship between strategizing and the processes of formation the national economy technological sovereignty, clarified the role of industrial strategizing in the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty, formulated key aspects of the financial strategy and the labor potential development strategy of the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty.   Conclusions. The process of forming the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty must comply with the strategizing methodology, follow the long-term regulated stages and methodological principles for the development and implementation of an appropriate national strategy for the transition to technological independence. Particular attention should be paid to industrial and financial strategizing of the transition to technological independence and strategizing the labor potential development of the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty.