A new issue of Social and Labor Studies prepared by the Center of Socio-economic and Socio-political Studies (IMEMO) is devoted to the analysis of the principal aspects of the development of social and labor relations in present-day Russia. The problems of labor market and unemployment, development of the system of social partnership and such institutions of civil society as trade unions and employers’ associations are covered. For the first time a number of legislative acts (abstracts) regulating labor relations in the countries with transitional economies are published in Russian.