…leaders with a nickel-plated Kalashnikov rifle replica, symbolic of the need to “be ready to work defensively.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWf4BcmQ52A Aired in 2005, this controversial political ad led to Rodina’s temporary fall…
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…ideology, often treading a middle path. Although described by university classmates as exceptionally passionate about Communist ideals when she joined the Communist Party in 1985—even receiving honors from Communist organizations—while…
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…academia and the policy community by providing a space for discussion that brings the policy, academic, diplomatic, and business communities together. Central Eurasian Studies Society seeks to facilitate communication, interaction,…
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…Cultures of Suicide with Fixed-Effects Estimation.” Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 37, No.3, pp. 307-329. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). 2006. “Statement by the High Commissioner…
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Vladimir Putin speaks at the United Russia Party Covention in November, 2009. Although he is the party leader, he is not a member. Photo from UPI.com (Continued from Part I)…
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…whole neatly combines common concerns from both the schools of German Natural Law and Neo-Confucian political thought. From the German Enlightenment on the one hand is the concern for the…
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…payments at a child’s birth. While we value raising Ukrainian families’ incomes, we believe that the role of the state and local communities must be significantly more active. In particular,…
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…plans fell through, it placed the company in direct competition with Sberbank. Sberbank now partners with Yandex’s rival, Mail.ru. Gazprom Neft: Russia’s fourth largest oil company is the only industrial…
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…the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which is the successor party to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Mironov publically proposed a merger with the KPRF in May,…
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…Bank’s compliance with law, it is controlled by the Prosecutor General’s Office and other bodies. I admit that sometimes certain reports come in but none of them have been confirmed….
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…that “Moldova is willing to become a bridge between East and West, not a battleground for the world powers.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9o1CsfAcg Above: the first of a series of films about Vladimir…
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…speech. The translation and transcript are both presented as published on Kremlin.ru. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq4wbBvIlHo В.Путин: Уважаемые граждане России! Дорогие друзья! President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, friends, Совсем скоро…
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…both presented as published on Kremlin.ru. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhDQVDHjacE В.Путин: Уважаемые граждане России! Дорогие друзья! President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, friends, Всего через несколько минут 2020-й заканчивается. The year…
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…68% in the highly disputed 2007 elections. This was despite United Russia only officially having 257,000 members, lagging behind the Communists (500,000) and even the Liberal Democratic Party (600,000), which…
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…questions are intriguing, but difficult to answer for a culture that has so few primary sources. How did an empire considered “barbaric” by most of the civilized world come to…
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…government regulation and a few big companies, mainly raw materials companies with government ownership and participation. This mixture of government and capital is spawning corruption and leading to the inefficient…
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…Similar to images heralding Stalin at the inception of Socialist Realism, a clearly isolated and heroic leader is a common component of this form of art designed to foster a…
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…lightly defended by the local peoples. Invasions, including those by the Chinese, would thus bring a certain amount of instability to the prosperity the region’s geographic advantage gave it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bUg9DkDHoU…
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…former Leningrad, are a single economic region. During the Soviet era, it was managed, in fact, by one body – by the Communist Party’s regional committee. Теперь, когда у нас…
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…with English subtitles and, below that, a side-by-side translation of speech. The translation and transcript are both presented as published on Kremlin.ru. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0ewPItiiQE В.Путин: Уважаемые граждане России! Дорогие друзья!…
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