Daria Khaltourina

[4] In collaboration with Andrey Korotayev she has made a significant contribution to the study of the factors of the current Russian demographic crisis.

They have demonstrated that post-Soviet Russia experiences one of the world's highest prevalence of alcohol-related problems, which contributes to high mortality rates in this region.

[6] Khaltourina was also one of the pioneers (together with Andrey Korotayev) of the study of correlation between spatial distributions of folklore-mythological motifs and genetic markers, as well as linguistic and sociostructural characteristics, and produced in this area significant results with respect to the deep history reconstruction.

[7] As is noticed by Julien d'Huy et al., "Korotayev and Khaltourina [8] showed statistical correlation between spatial distributions of mythological motifs and genetic markers, considerably above the 4,000 km...

[9] Khaltourina and her colleagues have demonstrated that Protestantism has indeed influenced positively the capitalist development of respective social systems not so much through the "Protestant ethics" (as was suggested by Max Weber) but rather through the promotion of literacy.

On the other hand, literate people could be characterized by a greater innovative-activity level, which provides opportunities for modernization, development, and economic growth.