The Accidental Terrorist: Okhrana Connections to the Extreme-Right and the Attempt to Assassinate Sergei Witte in 1907

This article represents a case study in the relationship between the tsarist secret police (commonly known as the Okhrana in the West and okhranka in Russia) and acts of political terror perpetrated by the extreme-right in late imperial Russia. This specific case concerns the tangled web of conspiracy, propaganda and controversy that surrounded the attempted assassination of former-Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Sergei Witte, in 1907

Analysis of water policies in regions with intense agriculture

In many rural areas, agricultural activities (including factory farming) conflict with the interests of other users of the environment, and also cause a deterioration of the biological quality of the environment itself. The study to which this paper refers is focused on the analysis of regional regulation policies providing for a satisfactory balance between socio-economic development and evaluation of the environment in the long run. Methodologically, it is based on the use of a two-stage decomposition approach, which includes scenario analysis in the first stage and policy analysis in the second. In this paper a brief outline is given of the scenario analysis module and the way it can be used as part of an interactive decision support model system