Turkmenistan: A Rich, Desert Land
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Ukraine’s Party of Regions: Part 2
…national minorities; developing their cultural and linguistic autonomy; cooperating and forming a national network of regional cultural centers that must become the heart for harmoniously developing all our peoples’ cultures;…
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Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny Modern Liberal Nationalism See also: Alexei Navalny: Mayoral Platform for 2013 (in English) Alexei Anatolievich Navalny is a lawyer, activist, and politician. He is generally considered the strongest…
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The State of the Russian Navy: History and Prospectives
…sea-based aviation. After Leonid Brezhnev came to power, the Soviet Union began to consider aircraft carriers once more. It would launch a total of two Moskva-class helicopter carriers, one in…
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How Does Income Affect Suicide Rates? Regional Evidence from Russia
…provides annual national- and regional-level statistics for a number of economic and socio-demographic indicators from 1990-2010. I was able to obtain annual data for the following explanatory variables: gross regional…
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Lake Baikal in Space and Place: Connections of Local Residents to Natural Resources and the Role they Play in Protecting them
…etc). Meanwhile, “place” includes not only the physical features, but also the socioeconomic, political, historical, and cultural characteristics of an individual’s environment. This paper will develop a basic analysis of…
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Russians on Ice: A Brief Overview of Soviet and Russian Hockey
…on the ice on the opposing team gets a “minus.” The “plus/minus” for an individual player is calculated by tallying these points, so a high plus total is taken to…
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Kiev: At the Center of a Divided Country
…total industrial output, chemical and mechanical engineering takes another 30%, and the manufacture of paper and paper products takes 11%. Today, services and particularly IT outsourcing are also beginning to…
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Communism in Modern Moscow: Vadim Kumin
…to Rospotrebnadzor.ru, in the last year alone in Moscow the number of cases of acute intestinal infections, viral hepatitis, influenza, upper respiratory tract infection, diseases caused by the human immunodeficiency…
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Russian for Wonks: Demographics and Childbirth
…the physical states of clinics can vary widely. Although the state has spent millions of rubles on these clinics since 2000, not all have been upgraded or remodeled to the…
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Batkivshchyna: Party Platform
…translates to “Fatherland,” has a political platform that mixes populist social programs, criticisms of capitalism and corruption, and nationalist zeal. Her coalitions, such as the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, have likewise…
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Right Cause Searches for Right Path: Part III
…legal term referring to courts that can hear all types of cases, from civil to criminal to family law. These courts, like most court systems are divided into local, regional,…
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What is the Significance of the Russia Day Protests?
…festivities. The protests come as Russia enters the 2018 election cycle. Navalny, who hopes to challenge Vladimir Putin for the presidency, came to prominence as a political blogger on LiveJournal.…
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Mikhail Prokhorov: A Real Future
…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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Fantasy Islands: New Lands Built for St. Petersburg
…also refers). The original article was published in September, 2008 – written before the financial crisis. That crisis is now affecting real estate markets across Russia, Central Asia (particularly Kazakhstan),…
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The Allies in Siberia During the Russian Revolution
…materiel to Tsarist Russia to help keep the Central Powers split between two fronts. Because the traditional trade routes were cut off, all supplies came through Murmansk and Arkhangelsk in…
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Disillusionment on the Grandest of Scales: Finnish-Americans in the Soviet Union, 1917-1939
…organ) are added, the total circulation of the Finnish radical press numbered around 60,000. Because newspapers are almost always shared with others, this represents a substantial radical movement within an…
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Russia’s Arctic Development: Problems and Priorities
…local waters, where shipments may spread chemical contaminants and invasive species. Problem Five: Balancing Competition and Cooperation With a myriad of economic, military, and environmental factors at stake, international political…
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Ordinary Men? Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied Mogilevskaya Oblast’
…National Historical Library and the Russian State Library.[1] These memoirs, although burdened by the confines of Soviet censorship, are rich sources of information typically ignored by Western historians. Several Wehrmacht…
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Trends in Soviet and Post-Soviet Udmurt Cultural Memory
…applies to Udmurt cultural memory, is that their collective identity has suffered the warping of stable memory paradigms due to a seventy-year-long totalitarian regime. Halbwachs would allow that ritual can…
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