…Web. 16 Jan. 2012. <http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110603/164423613.html>. Hans, Oversloot, Joop Van Holteyn, and Ger P. Van Den Berg. “Against All: Exploring the Vote ‘Against All’ in the Russian Federation’s Electoral System.” Journal…
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…that bridges two worlds. (The capital was moved to Kiev, and a new cathedral Greek Catholic cathedral was sponsored there by the first lady Kateryna Yushchenko-Chumachenko. The move has been…
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…total industrial output, chemical and mechanical engineering takes another 30%, and the manufacture of paper and paper products takes 11%. Today, services and particularly IT outsourcing are also beginning to…
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…end to the current political cycle, which usually entails heightened political uncertainty, may also contribute to the economic dip with a decrease in investment. Downturns are natural in economic cycles…
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…at Manas International Airport, a logistical hub for the coalition effort in Afghanistan. It is also Kyrgyzstan’s financial center, home to 21 commercial banks and a large number of industrial…
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…still in the black. Given all this, despite the prospect of additional sanctions, most international ratings groups are now putting Russia’s credit ratings on positive trajectories. Central Bank Governor Elvira…
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…Slavophiles, this term has additional important connotations of authentic and organic relations between individuals, in contrast to the artificial and alien nature of the rational-legal, contractual relations promoted by the…
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…and no alcoholic beverages are allowed. The lower garden connects to the upper (roof) garden through a myriad of paths and bridges. Through the glass roof and other windows on…
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…fire. In our local Maidan square, about two hundred people gather regularly to listen to announcements from the governor Kiev has newly appointed about what’s to come and about how…
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The organization British Pathé, a creator of newsreels of historical events, digitized their archive of 82,000 documentary videos and released it on YouTube. The 3,500 hours of newsreel span the…
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…and spoke the Lezgic Udi language. Under the Albanians, an historical account of the region was written by the Armenian Movses Kaghankatvatsi, and the Armenian and Albanian alphabets were both…
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…social sphere – education and healthcare, addressing environmental and housing problems, and we will continue to renovate and revamp small cities and villages. All of this should be based on…
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…May Day celebrations, even in areas they knew had a radiation level 1,000 times higher than normal. To this day, no study has been done to estimate the number of…
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…firing kiln measuring ten by ten by ten feet, the NKVD stacked all of those killed, shoveling in dirt between the layers of corpses. For years after the mass burial,…
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…and geographic connections to many Central European states, and which once partly lived under communist rule, and is sometimes therefore included as part of Central Europe. Central Europe also remains,…
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…those energy-hungry countries. The Russian government has also proposed building an “International Uranium Enrichment Centre” in nearby Angarsk. The project is supported both by the US government and the International…
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…from central Russia were brought in for regional administration and projects to solve the region’s economic problems. However, the situation is still far from ideal and traditional local industries such…
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