…they perhaps have ever been, considerable hard work and challenges still lie ahead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9smD823aE0 Above: This BBC Interview shows many key TV moments, including scenes from Servant of the People,…
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…minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qb_rIzNZes You can find considerable images from the Times and Epochs festival held on Tverskaya here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74MLxkywe_o Navalny speaks on the results of the Russia-wide protests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziD1eUhmFEk…
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…by Slavic peoples who had begun draining the surrounding swamps in the previous century. Moscow was founded at a time when Yuri’s powerful Kyivan principality was expanding northward, colonizing and…
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…LGBT movement in the US and Europe, can turn conservative Russians against members of the LGBT community (Duvernet). Also in 2006, Gay Russia helped found the Russian LGBT Network, a…
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…the annual Russian timber harvest is lost to the black market. Most Russian exports are of raw timber, rather than the more valuable paper, pulp, and manufactured goods. Due to…
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…businessman, his nomination came as a surprise to most who watch Russian politics. The KPRF’s decision not to field their long-time leader and co-founder, Gennady Zyuganov, as they have in…
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…new economic system, one that works in the best interests of the majority of citizens, a popular economy. In this case, the best way to ensure strong economic growth is…
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…a time a large manufacturing concern and Kyrgyzavtomash, Kyrgyzstan’s main auto manufacturer. Atambaev helped found the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan in 1993. In 1995, he was elected to parliament…
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…in this manner or from the online catalogs. (Not all of the resources in the library are listed in the online catalogs.) However, there is one exception to this rule:…
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Azerbaijan’s name comes from the Persian words, azer, which means “fire” and baygan, which means “protector.” The name was first applied in ancient times to the area around Baku, Azerbaijan’s…
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Acquiring a library card for the University of Warsaw Library may be one of the best investments you can make while in Warsaw. For only 10 złoty, you may purchase…
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…of Kazakhstan Resigns The resignation of long-time President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev has been followed closely in the West by many looking for signs of what to expect after Russian…
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…and even shocking at times. History has created stark contrasts there between the rich and the poor, the socialists and capitalists, the young and old, and between the Czarist, Soviet,…
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…were just beginning to gather. These forces, at their most powerful, included mounting corporate debt, plummeting oil prices, budget constraints, a troubled banking sector, Western sanctions, Russian counter-sanctions, a rapidly…
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…original political platform of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation when that party was formed as a successor to the banned Communist Party of the Soviet Union. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkc46DHb7rM A…
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…were met with incomplete responses, uncomfortable hesitations, and subject changes by the ethnographer. He noted that this “Russian/Udmurt obfuscation didn’t shock [him]” as “[t]he Soviet Union had spent the best…
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…He was elected to parliament for the first time in 2010 and was then appointed first deputy speaker. In addition, the relatively small Democrats began to punch well above their…
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…By the time Vladimir Putin emerged from the post-Yeltsin election free-for-all as President of Russia, US-Russian relations were decidedly frosty, and looked to either remain in a stagnant and unprogressive…
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…nutrition when they cooked for themselves. Food was simply fuel, and the best way for Soviet citizens to fuel themselves was not within their own homes, but through stolovayas, or…
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…Role in Soiety,”Eurasianet.org, 2011. [36] “Kyrgyz Madrasah Principals to Lose Licenses,”, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, 2016. [37] Ibid. [38] “Kyrgyzstan: Uzbek-Language Schools Disappearing.” Eurasianet.org. 6 Mar. 2013. [39] “Kyrgyzstan:…
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