Fantasy Islands: New Lands Built for St. Petersburg
…cost the company six billion rubles. The federal government has spent an additional eight billion rubles to deepen the channel in the Gulf of Finland to eleven meters to accommodate…
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The Evolution and Dissolution of the Soviet Kitchen
…of vacuum cleaners and beauty parlors. The Russian rulers would thereupon be forced to turn out consumers’ goods, or face mass discontent on an increasing scale. By bombarding the USSR…
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The Present Is History: A Journey to Newly-Independent Kyrgyzstan
…Russian city, at least at our arrival in June 1992. While the ethnic Kyrgyz remained concentrated in the rural areas, Russians and Ukrainians moved in large numbers into Frunze—to use…
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Climate Fest in Bishkek
On Friday, September 20, 2019, Climate Fest was held. Millions of people around the world gathered together in support of a cleaner environment. Along with a fellow SRAS student, I…
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Osh & The Fergana Valley: Diversity and Division
…A report by AlJazeera English on the refugees that attempted to flee Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan as the riots escalated. As rumors began to spread on June 12 that nearby Uzbekistan…
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Declaration Of The Formation Of The All-Russia People’s Front
…in Russian companies and the rights of minority stockholders, has filed a formal request with Russia’s Prosecutor General to disband the organization as illegal. Navalny charges that Putin and those…
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The Russian State Lenin Library: A Guide
…July 2024 The following are observations by SRAS employees and clients while exploring Russian archives as part of SRAS’ Research Support Services. SRAS specializes in remote research… comments The Alykul…
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Svyatoslav Vakarchuk: The Ukrainian Parliament’s Rock Star
…Ukrainian Presidential Election Rumors began in 2017 that Vakarchuk would run for president in 2019. Officially, he dismissed these rumors. He stated that the presidency was of no interest to…
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Nationalist Thought in Contemporary Russia
…The Russian term narod emphasizes the ethnicity of the Russian people, and differentiates between citizens of the Russian state (regardless of ethnicity) ethnic Russians (narod) [3] Allensworth, Wayne. The Russian…
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Nagorno-Karabakh: The Volatile Core of the South Caucasus
…Russian Empire. By 1823, it was liquidated into the larger Russian Karabakh Province. Russian tax surveys revealed that while Azerbaijanis were a majority in Karabakh—almost two-thirds in 1845—the mountainous districts…
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Book Review of The Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920-1940
…one of the most renowned scholars writing in English on Azerbaijan’s history under the Soviet Union. Altstadt’s first book, The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule (1992), is…
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University of Warsaw Library
…throughout the building. They have a multitude of computers you can use, free wifi, and a decent amount of English-language reading material aside. The library offers reading rooms, work stations…
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A Comparative Look at Coronavirus Responses in Eurasia
…As an English speaker, I understand you’re in contact with some English-speakers in the expat community. Have many expats returned back to their own countries? Lilit: Some have, but not…
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Prospects for Bloc of Petro Poroshenko and People’s Front
Ukraine’s New Ruling Political Parties From left to right: Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Oleksandr Turchynov, and Petro Poroshenko. For more on Ukraine’s political leaders, see our Who’s Who of Ukrainian Politics. Ukraine’s…
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Mayakovskaya Library in St. Petersburg
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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Russian MiniLessons: Summer Camps for Kids and Related Russian Vocabulary
The following bilingual Russian MiniLesson is meant to build your vocabulary by providing Russian phrases within English text. Hover over the bold Russian to reveal its English translation. Nearly all…
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Krakow: Poland’s Cultural Capital
…economic and population growth, but also left lasting environmental problems. The mountains trap the pollution inside the city; the World Health Organization recently ranked Krakow as having the world’s 8th…
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Empire, Nationalities, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
…launched.[2] Exhausted by the First World War, the Russian empire was on the verge of disintegration. Polish and Finnish nationalisms were long known sources of concern to Russian rulers and…
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Examining the Threat of the Azov Movement in Ukraine
…with Russia, as well as the nation’s independence and dignity. The immediate external enemy for these nationalists is Russia, which threatens and undermines their country’s autonomy and has done so…
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Irkutsk: A Fragile Jewel of Siberia
…and a conduit connecting Russia’s great cities in the west with not only its strategically important Far East, but also connecting with the great economic markets of Asia. The current…
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