…multitude of individual- and group-sized tables. Facing the various registration procedures and navigating the library in a foreign languages can be intimidating, but discovering its various nooks-and-crannies is well worth…
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…as well. In Chapter 1, Galmarini-Kabala argues that welfare is a development of the modern state. “Welfare,” as she defines it in the prologue, is a social arrangement wherein “in…
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…agree on purchase terms in 2008 for the Russian natural gas upon which industry and residential heating in Ukraine is largely dependent. In the “gas war” that followed, in one…
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…as it costs twice the amount for Russia to produce oil as its competitor Saudi Arabia, the market may be too volatile to invite such large-scale investment without government intervention….
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…the 1-ruble loan to the independent commercial bank. Importantly, all transactions made used accounts opened in the commercial bank, and the ruble never left the commercial bank. The circuitous mutual…
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…candidates – including the increasingly popular Zelensky. This is also common for any individual considering candidacy as a way to set themselves apart from all others in the field. Vakarchuk…
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…League (KHL) (Континентальная Хоккейная Лига) to reflect its broader membership (and which is spelled with a “K” in English, possibly to deferentiate its initials from the Canadian Hockey League). Even…
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…we Americans studying at VGUES were informed that Igor Shuvalov, a Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, was going to be visiting VGUES to talk about Russia’s investment in…
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…country; in other words, he became a беглецfugitive. He is staying в международной транзитной зоне аэропортаin the international transit area of an airport in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. He is trying…
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…the information from it, and then bring it to the library staff as an official “book order.” It is only possible to read a book if you order it either…
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…the politicians who promise to tackle those issues. Ukraine’s political field includes nationalists, communists, socialists, and conservatives. Major issues include Ukraine’s East/West divide, the tensions between those who favor integration…
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…protest-cum-revolution was in progress. Once I arrived on the front steps of Parliament I scanned the crowd for signs of impending turmoil. However, with just a few hundred mild protesters…
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…would have been ineffective at improving traffic anyway. Instead, Sobyanin has focused on building new traffic interchanges and making improvements to traffic flow. He also discouraged traffic inside the city…
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…was found in Azikh Cave in Nagorno-Karabakh. The discovery indicates that one of the earliest examples of proto-human habitation in Eurasia was in Nagorno-Karabakh. In ancient times, Karabakh was populated…
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