…into Russia’s major urban areas, creating new competition for limited employment. Xenophobia grew as Russians became disenchanted with the “free movement” principles of globalization, which seemed to exacerbate the already…
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…who was in charge of helping to organize and run the event, an Instagram account called movegreen.kg published several posts advertising the event in the weeks leading up to it….
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…As an example: an electricity company owes the federal government 1 ruble. An independent commercial bank lends the electricity company 1 ruble, which is then paid to the federal government….
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…researcher ordered documents after coming to the library and filled out paper request forms. One can come to the library any day without problem, after ordering the documents beforehand. Problems:…
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…cooperation with the Communists, thus representing an early crack in that once-powerful party. When the constitutional crisis began in 2009, Filat helped form the Alliance for European Integration (AEI), comprised…
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…competition, most of which occurs in the realm of institution formation and ideology. Factors in Competition The competition between Sufis and Salafis in the Chechen Republic tells us a great…
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Literature and culture have a very strong bond in Russia, and as any student of Russian can attest to, reading Russian literature is a key component to understanding the language….
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…a foreign force was considered, understandably, ridiculous and a little offensive. Anti-Kremlin Protest on Russia Day. The signs read ‘Yes To A Free Media’ and ‘No To Kremlin Propoganda.’ In…
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…competitions and which still helps launch the careers of many entertainers in post-Soviet countries (including that Volodymyr Zelensky, now Ukraine’s president). Vakarchuk also helped found the school theater and played…
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…in US elections. Russia, meanwhile, holds that most cyberattacks on its institutions and businesses come from the US and accuses the US of interfering in the Russian 2021 parliamentary elections….
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…“world,” “community,” or “peace”), which was launched by the USSR in 1986 and completed in space in 1996. The Americans also had their own plans to build a space station…
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…increased scope of data monitoring and filtering. Most Internet communication happens via packet delivery. Packets have two main components – a header (includes technical information like the internet protocol, size…
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Azerbaijan’s name comes from the Persian words, azer, which means “fire” and baygan, which means “protector.” The name was first applied in ancient times to the area around Baku, Azerbaijan’s…
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…a possibly second party from which to form a strong, competition-based, democratic political system in Russia. However, Yabloko’s political niche was never very large. They won just 8% of the…
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…development, is comparatively small at $1 billion. Yet because of its high level of human capital, Russian IT companies are building a successful track record in the global outsourcing industry….
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…a united Mongol front or again pay tribute to the Mongols. After the breakup of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ivan pushed West, into former commonwealth lands, as far as possible. Ivan…
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…are highly fertile, positioned on lucrative trade routes, and generally flat and navigable, now saw how this combination can be a recipe for success, but also an combination too tempting…
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…organization, argumentation, clarity, and conciseness. This is handled mostly by making comments to the paper using the comments function, general commentary delivered via email, and by tracked edits made directly…
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…in 1991, with Igor Smirnov, the leader of the former communist government, handily winning with 64% of the vote against Grigorii Marakutsa, another former Communist bureaucrat. Following his first electoral…
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…its domestic energy sector, and committing violations of international law. Untapped Wealth Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Salievich Bakiev meets US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Despite some expectations that Kyrgyzstan…
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