…far from efficient or well-regulated. The lack of legal framework and financial infrastructure resulted in a legal vacuum that allowed former leading Party members to take control of much of…
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…national sexual education curriculum and comprehensive HIV awareness campaigns, and that international organizations recognize the cultural, historical and political idiosyncrasies that influence educational methodology. Ideally, international partnerships might serve as…
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…then balanced with the national languages under Stalin, and finally pushed to the top after Stalin’s death, at the expense of the national languages.[38] Alternatively, Martha Brill Olcott periodicises language…
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…that fails to even mention prostitution.[50] Blaming Perestroika: The Chaos and Social Upheaval of “Transition” Beyond placing blame on poor parenting, Aleksandr Vasinsky also blames the lack of “transitional stages”…
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…College’s site, lists many useful resources for understanding sexual minorities in Russia. KoryoSaram.info is a source for news, history and latest research about the Korean diaspora in Russia and Central…
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…then rejected because Russia’s Academy of Sciences, which has oversight over the Federal Space Administration, deemed the site inappropriate for human and commercial launches, in part due to environmental reasons….
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…sign that the influence of the Russian language was waning in Bishkek. Although the republic had introduced a new language law in 1989 calling for the revival of Kyrgyz, little…
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…a natural barrier between warring empires. Thus, control of the land bridge represents substantial opportunities for trade, but also a crucial military bottleneck. The Caucasus themselves, however, a rugged land…
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…makes the law a largely unworkable one for most women. Infographic on the legal protections and social benifits awarded to new and expectant mothers. Infographic from MyJus.ru, a legal consultancy…
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…and are then redistributed to the regions as federal revenue. However, about 90% of all regional expenditure is also now dictated through federal mandates. Having both expenditures and income dictated…
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…initial structure formed. Kvartal 95 was also never apolitical. Much of their comedy lampooned political figures and social conditions. They publically supported the Maidan Revolution. When war broke out in…
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…given to him and that the capital city would be renamed in his honor. The report also made clear that Nazarbaev, although no longer president, would continue to hold power:…
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…to restore objects of historical and cultural heritage; allow deductions of double the sum allocated for the restoration and preservation of historical and cultural monuments located in towns with less…
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…-0.01 0.105 0.195 0.111 (-0.08) (-1.17) -0.47 (-0.4) Birth Rate -0.488*** -0.407*** -0.606*** -0.415*** (-4.26) (-5.03) (-4.61) (-3.96) Kuznet’s Ratio (10/10) -0.086 -0.113*** -0.108 -0.1 (-1.4) (-2.59) (-0.99) (-1.28) Unemployment…
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…Navalny, a convicted criminal, doesn’t merit discussion. The film also implicated Russian business tycoon Alisher Usmanov, who filed a libel lawsuit that heightened the film’s notoriety. Usmanov followed the lawsuit…
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Palimpsest: (n) a manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing. Warsaw, Poland’s centrally-located capital, is in many ways an allegory…
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…million people, is also the capital of its surrounding oblast, which is also known as Volgograd. Both political entities have been the site of several many post-Soviet scandals and upsets….
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…of zooplankton endemic to Lake Baikal. Making up 80-90% of the lake’s biomass, it is crucial to maintaining the lake’s cleanliness. The lake’s ecosystem, which is home to over 3,000…
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…the basis for all other Turkic languages. Not even largely, but almost by 100 percent. And in general, I think, we should pay much more attention to the study of…
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…is located in Kazakhstan. Baikonur Cosmodrome in south-central Kazakhstan was constructed during the 1950s when the nation was a Soviet Socialist Republic. It remains the largest launch site in the…
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