Russia’s “Gay Propaganda” Law
…with the employment of the media and/or information and telecommunications networks (including Internet sites) – if these actions are not punishable under criminal law – will be subject to administrative…
Read More…with the employment of the media and/or information and telecommunications networks (including Internet sites) – if these actions are not punishable under criminal law – will be subject to administrative…
Read More…отдает “свой голос”casts ‘his vote’ several times in different places. Generally, this requires that the член избиркома be involved as well as Russian voter lists are compiled based on passports…
Read More…a powerful place in government. They have seen the rise of a new Socialist party that has rapidly accumulated a quarter of the parliament’s seats and now controls the presidency….
Read More…and even language. Breaking Europe apart into larger subdivisions for study is difficult. Deciding where to place the various borders can land you in unsolvable debates involving politics, economics, and…
Read MoreApril 26, 1986 began like any other day for the Soviet citizens of Pripyat, a little-known city of 50,000 in the Ukrainian SSR. At the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant,…
Read More…better known in the West than he is in Russia, as most of his interviews are in English for western news sources. In the past, he has often yelled comments…
Read More…system, and others on the old five-year system, which bestowed (bestowes) the title of “Specialist.” The Bologna Process is also influencing the development of education in Russia. After completing higher…
Read More…came from students in Ukraine imploring Russian students to question what they hear on Russian TV. It didn’t take long for Russian students to make their own video asking Ukrainian…
Read More…bookstore. It is recommend you locate and browse it beforehand. GARF has an on-line database that includes many fondi (but not all), with descriptions of the holdings down to the…
Read More…the Russian 5G network, the development of 5G networks in Russia and neighboring European countries will face difficulties due to the signals crossing borders and interfering with each other. Network…
Read More…publications at its opening, the library is now home to over six million documents in 89 different languages, ranging from encyclopedias and reference manuals to classics and contemporary novels. The…
Read More…roughly 160,000 people in the republic’s southeast, where much of its oil deposits lie. All of Tatarstan’s cities are well-connected to one another by a highly developed transport network comprised…
Read More…much to modernize the Georgian military and to make Georgia a US strategic ally. Moreover, Saakashvili has virtually eliminated the power outages and natural gas shortages that were a staple…
Read More…making photocopies: the archive will make up to 20 copies for free. After that, you are strictly limited to making notes. Problems: The putivoditel is not generally publically accessible. The…
Read More…the planet. It is fed by 336 rivers and streams that flow from the surrounding mountains and all parts of Siberia and it is estimated that it took over 400…
Read More…employees were mostly academics looking for new ways to make ends meet in the struggling post-Soviet economy. By 2000, however, some of these companies had become large enough, and successful…
Read More…the march were often characterized by a suspicion about Pride march organizers and their motives. Organizers were charged at best with naïveté, at worst with self-promotion and endangering others. Objecting…
Read More…Union collapsed in 1991, Central Asian countries inherited a rail network that was almost entirely oriented towards Moscow. As a result, the newly independent nations were disconnected not only from…
Read More…best to let bygones be bygones. Russian phrases the same thought very strongly, perhaps reminiscent of Gandhi’s “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Russians say: “кто…
Read More…at rush hour. New routes for aboveground public transportation are currently being developed to make it easier to reach the ring stations. Next to every transportation hub, there will be…
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