…its foreign counterparts in length, beauty and comfort” also adding that “public transport is now fashionable.” To drive home the point, a representative from New York was later shown saying…
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…to it, and it was fun to observe the various language-classes and community events transpiring in nearly every room. If you are looking to volunteer in the community, the American…
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Hard by a Great Forest, by Leo Vardiashvili, is a wonderful, horrible book. The book is wonderful in that it presents believable, likeable characters who are continually placed in extraordinary…
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…these will be of interest to anyone hoping to build Russian language skills or to better understand policy, policy implementation, and policy spin in Russia. According to a 2016 poll…
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…work if you are in the mood for a change of scenery. Oh, and they have free Wi-Fi. Just ask for the password (пароль) at the desk! Resources: “Mayakovsky” Wikipedia….
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…chosen what I think are the five most important stories of the summer that will continue to develop and be important in US-Russia relations over the coming semester. Those interested…
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…University of Vermont Press, 1993), 49. [3] Ibid. 217 [4] Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000, (New York: Oxford U P, 2001), 96. [5] Sergei Pshenitsyn, February 2011….
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…experienced, in 2010, the second of two popular revolts to unseat a current president, in 2011 the country peacefully elected its fourth president. It’s parliamentary democracy is still in its…
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…Reproduction for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Subscribe to Vestnik Issue 20: Trends in Cultural Education in Kyrgyzstan Bolshevik Anti-Free Press Discourse, 1917-1922 Sufi-Salafi Institutional Competition and Conflict in the…
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…Pain The transition to a free-floating ruble was not without pain. When a currency depreciates, it is able to be converted into less of another currency. In this context, it…
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…Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev is the current President of Kyrgyzstan. He is ineligible for reelection in 2017 due to constitutionally imposed term limits. Born in 1956 in a village in the…
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…liberal parties now in the majority, furthermore, proved unable to unite to pass and institute coherent policies to resolve ongoing crises and reform the country’s institutions and infrastructure to compete…
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…Many of these articles have posited the question in their titles and introductions, but most, it seems have fairly skirted the issue and largely concentrated on ideas outside of the…
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…Russia. In fact, money-washed Dubai does not build into the sea simply because it has extra funds. In fact, it is because the country has only about 60 kilometers of…
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…forces have been involved in some standoffs with Russian forces particularly around bases in Crimea, some of which have long been shared between Kiev and Russian forces attached to the…
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…testing of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) and a training center for the Strategic Missile Troops. Its location is not ideal for the more extensive needs of the space program as…
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…and towns. Click for a larger image. Latvia’s lack of defensible borders and its long history of being occupied have made it sensitive to security issues. It joined NATO in…
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…Russia, particularly now that it is striving to also become one of Russia’s largest tech and lifestyle companies. A Sberbank ATM in Moscow, 2022 SberBank is present in 83 of…
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…mergers in order to strengthen and solidify its position. A political protest held by Yabloko supporters in 2004, a few months after losing their representation in the Duma. However, just…
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…protect Russian industry from foreign competition by banning imports of specific products and moves against the governments of its adversaries specifically. While nothing should be ruled impossible, it is most…
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