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Civil Society, Vestnik
23 October 2012
Democracy – in particular, a healthy liberal democracy – also requires a public that is organized for democracy, socialized to its norms and values, and committed not just to its…
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Environment, Vestnik
31 October 2012
Every year hundreds of thousands of travelers make the pilgrimage to the breath-taking shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia. Unfortunately, the awe-inspiring natural beauty of Baikal’s vistas may not last…
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GeoHistories
29 October 2017
Central Asia is, by its most common definition, those five “stans” that were formerly Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. However, this has not always been the case…
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Demographics, Security, Vestnik
31 October 2012
The concept of human rights in an international context and on the scale that exists today did not come into being until the 20th century. The term began to gain…
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Demographics, Security, Vestnik
1 November 2012
The early modern period from 1500-1800 has been focused upon in recent scholarship as a unique era separated from the medieval and the modern. This separation is based not merely…
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Economy, Political Economy, Resources, Vestnik
11 April 2013
Wood, well made into buildings and furniture and well cared for, can last hundreds of years, but it is now routinely manufactured into products that last us twenty-five years. We…
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Ideology, Politicians, Vestnik
23 April 2013
Артельный горшок гуще кипит “With a helper, many things are possible” – Russian Proverb ‘Let us seek a prince who may rule over us, and judge us according to the…
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Security, Vestnik
18 October 2010
The subject of collaboration and resistance in occupied Europe is one of the most controversial issues related to the history of the Second World War. Research in the Soviet Union…
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Demographics, International Relations, Vestnik
12 December 2007
From the time of the October Revolution in 1917, the United States had a tense relationship with the Soviet Union. The United States was, after all, one of those “bourgeois”…
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Ideology, Vestnik
3 September 2013
The Russian nationalist movement came to prominence in the late Soviet era and the early years of the Russian Federation. Russia had never existed as a consolidated nation-state; both the…
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Political Economy, Politicians, Theory, Vestnik
31 May 2006
1. Introduction: The Dearth of Ideology On the 12th July 1996, following a closely fought election victory, Boris Yeltsin called his advisors to him. ‘In Russia’s history in the 20th…
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In Translation, Speech
16 December 2017
The following is the official video, transcript, and official translation for Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference as given on December 14, 2017. Note that the text is as given on…
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In Translation, Speech
16 December 2017
The following is the official video, transcript, and official translation for Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference as given on December 14, 2017. Note that the text is as given on…
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International Relations, Vestnik
20 June 2005
Forward from the editors: While the following is highly informative without understanding such finer subtleties as the difference between realism and neorealism, etc. we recommend the following Wikipedia entries for…
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Ideology, Politicians, Vestnik
12 December 2005
Born in 1745, Denis Fonvizin was one of eighteenth-century Russia’s premier playwrights, and among the reform-minded intellectuals and future statesmen educated at the University of Moscow in the 1750s who…
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Demographics, Vestnik
12 December 2005
From the time of the Russian Revolution onward, the Bolsheviks were often portrayed in mainstream American media as the “enemy.”[1] Many Americans, however, chose to go to the Soviet Union…
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Demographics, Legal Structures, Security, Vestnik
12 December 2005
The history of Russia has always been a relatively sad and tumultuous one wrought with wars, power struggles, and abrupt changes. These changes have often been forcibly thrust wholesale upon…
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Demographics, Health, Vestnik
12 December 2005
In the context of escalating international speculation as to the determining factors behind Russia’s demographic crisis, the HIV epidemic is lent increasingly heightened significance. Such attention indicates an ever-more conspicuous…
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International Relations, Vestnik
22 May 2006
The relationship that has existed between Russia and China has historically been one of mistrust spotted with anger, fear and resentment. Despite their communist ties during more than four decades…
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Civil Society, Political Organizations, Politicians, Theory, Vestnik
20 October 2006
The traditional view of Russian political culture has been that, due to historical experience, Russians have favored strong autocratic rule. After nearly seventy years of the Soviet experience, Russian society…
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