Putin and Pompeo Meet
…значительную часть полуторачасовой дискуссии. Political differences stand as the main obstacle to the development of cooperation. One of the most pressing issues is the unilateral withdrawal of the United States…
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Channels of Legal Agency in Russian Serfdom: A Case Study of Petitions from the Vladimir Guberniya, 1796-1808
…and Russian serfs experienced comparable hardships at the hands of the establishment. Serfs endured physical violence parallel to that experienced by unfree Africans in America or Brazil. Just as an…
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Military Learning Between the Chechen Wars
…the tactical level did not portend significant change and learning because Russia did not incorporate Chechen lessons for every other local intervention by Russian military forces.[81] Allison also viewed a…
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A Guide to Studying Central Asia and the Caucasus
…as well as the modern economies, societies, and states of Central Asia, the Caucuses, and other Eurasian locations. Official Government Sites also generally have information on political structures and processes…
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Nationalist Thought in Contemporary Russia
…its allies. For Dugin, Russia’s natural Eurasianist allies are Iran, Germany, and Japan. These countries are not Russia’s natural allies because of ethnic considerations, but rather because of geopolitics and…
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Fair Russia: Foreign Policy Wish List
…Ponomarev’s translator (an unnamed American Ph.D. in linguistics) has taken a number of liberties, such as inserting “yes – we can” near the end of the English even though the…
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A Remedy for Legal Failure: Trial by Jury in Russia
…citizen. The legal system was seen as a means for enforcing the tsar’s laws. Jury trials often became platforms for open public and political dissent. Unfortunately, as the forces of…
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President Obama’s NES Speech in Russian Translation
…down political machines that were corrupt, ended abuses of power. Independent media have exposed corruption at all levels of business and government. Competitive elections allow us to change course and…
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Five Russia-Related Issues to Watch this Semester
…issues will continue to affect Russian society. These are also eternal social and governance issues, and should be under continual examination in all societies everywhere if civil society is to…
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Romanian Nationalism in Moldova from 1988-1994: Elite Competition and Nationalism
…identifies the competition between elites and counter-elites as the impetus behind nationalist movements. In the case of Moldova during the final years of Soviet rule, the competing elite groups consisted…
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Who’s Who in Kyrgyz Politics
…Alamedin Fur Factory as an economist and logistical expert. He went on to open several cafes and discos and, from 1995-2000, helmed the financial-industrial firm Toton as general director. He…
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Non-Governmental Organizations in Russia: Adapting for Success
…In 2006, the movement began to push for legal, annual gay pride parades, as to this day only illegal small parades are held (Senzee). Such parades, which are legal cornerstones…
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Contemporary Russian-Serbian Relations: Interviews with Youth from Political Parties in Belgrade and Vojvodina
…entities and see how that investment correlates with the political relations between the relevant countries. In the area of energy, a problem with the South Stream pipeline that recently surfaced…
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Rejecting Professional Medicine in Contemporary Russia
…people might avoid professional medical care: income inequalities and health values. Income-Based Explanations Several authors stress the high cost of medical services as the main reason to avoid professional medical…
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Layers of Identity: Self-identity in U.S. child immigrants from the former Soviet Union
…a relationship between given variables) holds true. Generally, low p-values are difficult to achieve when relationships between variables are not obvious and when the sample size is low. P-values can…
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“Traditional Values” and the 2013 Russian Propaganda Ban
…of non-traditional sexual relations, of distorted representation of the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations, or the imposition of information about non-traditional sexual relations, generating interest in such…
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Catholic and Protestant: Two Religious Periodicals and US-Soviet Relations, 1930-1950
…everyone else…where purges and mass arrests and rigid censorships are everyday routines.”[15] Gillis’s opposition to cooperating with the Soviets would always lay in two concerns: Soviet Russia was a cruel…
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De Jure and De Facto: An Examination of the “Friendship of the Peoples” Policy and the 1937 Koryo Saram[2] Deportation
…Central Asia: Adaptation, Social Status, and Achievements.” Diaspora Studies 5.2 (2011): 153-171. Khan, Valeriy S. “The Korean Minority in Central Asia: National Revival and Problem of Identity.” International Journal of…
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Environmental Policy and Politics of Lake Baikal: A review of physical, psychological, and political contexts
…social priming shapes behaviors in certain physical environments (Barker 1968) by altering the experiences that shape place attachments and establish linkages between attitudes and their “objects” (Ajzen 1991). Thus, place…
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Sergey Lavrov on US-Russia Relations
…all this, between Moscow and Washington, there are disagreements, but productive contacts continue including on issues such as space, Afghanistan, and the Korean Peninsula. Phrases to watch for: особенности внешней…
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