Kazakhstan’s Capitals: Two Cities of History and Modern Business
…long history. It was founded in 1824 on the River Ishim near the geographic center of modern Kazakhstan. It was then a military fort known as Agmola (or Akmola), which…
Read More…long history. It was founded in 1824 on the River Ishim near the geographic center of modern Kazakhstan. It was then a military fort known as Agmola (or Akmola), which…
Read More…who wish to know, in a nutshell, what makes Russia Russia will find this book highly rewarding and even worth reading more than once. The Struggle to Save the…
Read More…are Russians living abroad. The remaining 114 million are people who speak Russian as their second language or know it as a foreign language. This is a priceless heritage that…
Read More…allow anyone to rattle sabers in the Baltic states, and in our zones of interest, in our former republics. We will not let anyone. You should know this. If rocket…
Read More…Accessed May 31, 2006. Blagov, Sergei. 2006 (March 28). “Russia Tries to Scuttle Proposed Trans-Caspian Pipeline.” Eurasianet.org <http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav032806_pr.shtml> Accessed May 14, 2006. Blandy, CW. 2001 (March). The Black Sea: Energy…
Read More…for its disbanding was a seven-million-ruble debt incurred to finance its failed 2007 parliamentary campaign. Another SPS founding member is Anatoly Chubais, best known as the architect of Russia’s controversial…
Read More…up into the air at 1:26 am on Saturday, April 26, 1986. The extent of the damage to the environment and population are still not fully known. The amount of…
Read More…not appreciate my Russian skills… Here’s a lesson in how history impacts daily life: the troubled and complicated history of Russian-Polish relations is well known. I don’t speak Polish, and…
Read More…first inhabitants. Some even still call it “Manchuria,” but officially the region is known as “Primorskiy Krai.” These early Chinese lived in the area seasonally, fishing and farming in the…
Read More…an on-line database listing its many fonds. To order materials from RGASPI in advance, a scholar should send an email a week prior to his/her arrival, and attach an official…
Read More…comfort hearing Armenian-Russian conversations float around the room from various tables. Obviously, with a sizable Armenian-speaking clientele, this place must be authentic enough to draw those who know what authentic…
Read MoreThe Modern Republic of Armenia lies in the turbulent south Caucuses. Although the Armenians as a people have existed for thousands of years, they have known the safety of living…
Read More…4: Two Communists who have been members for no less than a year, and who, as of the moment of your application, know you as an activist, must write letters…
Read More…the present. We wanted to cast our nets widely across history, literature, political life, art, the countryside, and the everyday (shopping, cooking, housing, Soviet anecdotes). We spent weeks, indeed months,…
Read More…Latvia’s main natural resource is its dense woodlands, which cover about 44% of its land. The country has been known for high quality wood since the Middle Ages, as well…
Read More…after scores of their individual members announced that they quit the unions if the unions joined the front. Lastly, Alexei Navalny, a Russian lawyer best known for campaigning for transparency…
Read More…was observed by the protesters) shortly after the first large protests began and slowing or stopping Internet access in the capital city to try to hinder organization (younger protestors apparently…
Read More…legislation that has come to be known as the Dima Yakovlev Law[2] is a direct response to America’s Magnitsky Act. The Dima Yakovlev Law is named for a young Russian…
Read More…ситуации непростых внутренних и внешних вызовов, с которыми мы сталкиваемся. I know only too well about your problems. You, Russian citizens, are right to speak about low incomes, faults with…
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