…Reader.) Articles also available individually in HTML below 2006-05-31 – Deconstructing the Millennium Manifesto 2006-05-24 – Seven Days in April 2006-05-22 – Tolstoy and Dostoevsky 2006-05-22 – The Question of…
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…University, examines how competition between two forms of Islam affects society in Chechnya. Lastly, in “Visual Propaganda of Personal Care during the Stalinist Cultural Revolution“, Denis Petrina, who is seeking…
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…The Pictorial Tradition in Sokurov’s Confession,” which examines an early post-Soviet military documentary and the painting techniques that helped inspire it. As a twist, this issue also features several personal…
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…no bloodshed.” Even dedicated Navalny supporter Kevin Rothrock tweeted, “by sending protesters to a family-friendly festival in downtown Moscow…Navalny surely invites more criticisms that he endangers children.” Police detained Navalny…
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…that are ready for market. Yet Russia is utilizing only about twenty-five percent of this potential. The timber industry in Russia is also currently inefficient. An estimated twenty-five percent of…
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…translation. In our history/political focus, we have articles on various post-Soviet cultures and their political and cultural contexts. Alana Holland, an MA student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,…
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…Barriers in 19th Century Russian Literature, which analyzes the portrayal of Caucasian cultures in works by Pushkin, Lermontov, and Tolstoy. Anastasia Shmytova, a student at Smolny College, presents new research…
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…Russia and especially Moscow. It was authored in the original Russian by Olga Churakova. We highly recommend that students view the original story, available online. Below the introductory text has…
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The following text was written by Aleksei Rudevich and originally appeared in Russian on the website “Russian 7.” To read the original Russian, click here. This has been translated for…
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…its fourth nuclear weapon on January 6, resulting in a flurry of political activity around the best way to respond to this potentially aggressive display. Russia, which has a long…
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…Posted: 30 January 2015 Turkmenistan consists mostly of sparsely-inhabited desert, but has still found itself contested between civilizations throughout history. Over the past century, it has been particularly associated… comments…
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…video (you may need to click “CC” to make them appear) and side-by-side translation. Note that the text is as given on the Kremlin’s official site. It has been reformatted…
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…Russian national team since 2005, which is also the same year he entered the NHL. During that first year, Ovechkin won the Calder Memorial Trophy (the Rookie of the Year…
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…domestic or foreign policy, history, or culture, Ukraine provides a fascinating case study. Crimea – Prosperity in Unity, or Separatism? By Alex Wilson Crimea is an enigmatic and conflicted mixture…
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…partner and ally, and one that may overshadow the EU in importance someday. Although Russo-Japanese trade relations are lucrative, political relations are greatly hindered by a dispute over the Kuril…
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…apartment buildings painted in bright colors. Most national villages have also considerably improved as the local government has built new housing with modern facilities there. In wide open expanses of…
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Summary of a speech given by Daniel Satinsky, B.E.A Associates Daniel M. Satinsky, Esq. The information technology (IT) outsourcing industry in Russia is one of the few non-natural resource sectors…
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…Many residents offer their own tourist services, including hotels, cafes, and eco-tours. Photo taken by Rylin McGee Because many tourists arrive driven by cost incentives and ignorant of the environmental…
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…Yeltsin. Many members of Fatherland-All Russia also defected to Unity. In April 2001, Fatherland-All Russia and Unity issued a joint declaration stating that the two parties intended to merge. By…
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…the Democratic Party of Russia (which continues to maintain its own site). It details many of the complaints that have also been publicly aired by party members in the media….
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