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Civil Society, Demographics
14 August 2013
Learning to See Invisible Children: Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Central Asia (Excerpt) Full book available in print and Kindle versions Firuza always knew that her son had the…
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Civil Society, International Relations
9 September 2012
The SRAS Newsletter has been on vacation for much of the summer. However, we’ve continued to follow the major issues surrounding Russia. To bring our publication up to date, I’ve…
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Security
9 January 2014
I have seen several articles now comment on the reasoning that terrorists might have employed in choosing to target the Russian city of Volgograd three times in as many months….
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Demographics, International Relations, Security
21 January 2014
As the Soviet Union crumbled, it left behind ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse successor states. As these states tried to form domestic policies and governing institutions, the interests of their…
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Civil Society, International Relations, Political Organizations, Politicians, Security
24 February 2014
An agreement was brokered by EU leaders between Ukraine’s ruling party and the opposition. That agreement, however, was broken the day after it was signed as the opposition impeached Viktor…
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GeoHistories
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 with oppressive rule. This has…
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GeoHistories
24 January 2015
Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked, economically poor, and highly mountainous country in Central Asia, keeps an unassuming profile. It lacks the oil and gas wealth of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan. It has…
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Business, Demographics, Infrastructure, Vestnik
17 June 2005
The following was originally presented at the International Summer School “Comparative Research in the Social Sciences: Operationalizations” in Sofia, Bulgaria, September 2004, organized by UNESCO and the International Social Sciences…
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Civil Society, Political Organizations, Vestnik
26 June 2012
In the months leading up to Russia’s most recent state Duma elections, ‘Just Russia’ party leader Sergei Mironov demanded that the country have the option to vote “against all,” describing…
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Demographics, Vestnik
18 October 2010
Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy is best known as the author of some of the world’s most famous literature, specifically the epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Tolstoy naturally…
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Civil Society, Environment, Ideology, Vestnik
10 November 2010
Lake Baikal in Siberia has a rich biological and cultural history. It is highly valued for its aesthetic qualities and rich biological diversity. In addition, the surrounding region is rich…
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International Relations, Security, Vestnik
11 May 2011
Africa’s drive for independence came to a head by the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War. It was seen by the Soviet Union as an opportunity to spread…
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Civil Society, Theory, Vestnik
14 May 2011
The following was written as mid-term essay for SRAS’s cultural program in St. Petersburg, “The Russians.” Students were encouraged to draw upon not only the program texts, but also on…
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Civil Society, Politics, Vestnik
20 October 2011
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan became an independent nation. Its independence, however, was not the result of a struggle for self-governance by the Kyrgyz people. It was…
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Civil Society, Demographics, Vestnik
20 October 2011
In a Komsomolskaya Pravda article dated April 13, 1993, O. Karmaza wrote that “in recent times, we have destroyed everything that could be destroyed. This applies to children and teenagers,…
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Business, Economy, Political Economy, Theory, Vestnik
19 June 2012
The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave rise to fifteen independent states, as well as a challenge for those who study national political economies. Until the time when…
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International Relations, Vestnik
26 June 2012
With the creation of the Eurasian Economic Community’s customs union (“Customs Union”) in 2010, total trade among Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan skyrocketed.[1] Emboldened by such results, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir…
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Political Organizations, Vestnik
26 June 2012
United Russia is the powerhouse of Russian politics. At its base is the influence of the paternal Vladimir Putin, two-time President and one-time Prime Minister, who is now once again…
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Business, Infrastructure, International Relations, Political Economy, Resources, Security, Vestnik
12 December 2007
Kazakhstan has received much press recently as a result of the success of the comic film Borat. However, that movie got everything wrong in its depiction of Kazakhstan, with the…
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Demographics, Health, Vestnik
26 June 2012
I believe no man ever threw away life, while it was worth keeping. For such is our natural horror of death, that small motives will never be able to reconcile…
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