Kyrgyzstan is a small, strikingly mountainous country near the center of the immense Eurasian landmass. Influences from diverse empires can be felt there today: Mongol, Turkic, Persian, Russian/Soviet, and Chinese….
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…farm land, creating health problems and reducing crop yields. The Aral Sea once hosted an important fishing industry. Today, many ships remain where they were last docked, which today a…
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…bourgeoisie” in order to create a “brand new world” whose main values are fraternity and egality. The grotesque caricature, however, is interesting not because of a rupture between what was…
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…would vote for United Russia again. United Russia was the result of a merger between the Unity and the Fatherland – All Russia political parties, which had previously been rivals….
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…threats that are difficult to foresee today… the industry leader will rule the world.” What exactly is artificial intelligence and how has it developed in Russia since 2017? Those questions…
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…one must understand Russian society. To understand Russian society, one must understand the concept of property rights as understood in Russia. In his book, Russia As It Is Matthew Maly…
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…<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1957411.stm>. “Profile: Shamil Basayev.” BBC News, July 29 (2005). <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4727935.stm>. Doubler, Michael D. Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945. Lawrence, Ks.: Univ. Press of…
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…for his actions and eventually he lost his job as a news anchor. Eshimkanov founded Asaba, a popular Kyrgyz language national newspaper headquartered in Bishkek, in 1991 and remained editor-in-chief…
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Ukraine’s Party of Regions is criticized as pro-Russian and even as supportive of Russian nationalists in Ukraine. It is often criticized as a political vehicle for President Victor Yanukovych and…
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…to issues of national pride, specifically those which garner widespread international publicity. Christof Ruehl, former chief economist at the World Bank, notes of the pervasive attitude towards HIV spending, “you…
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…legitimacy in a semi-authoritarian regime are economic performance, social stability, and nationalism.[28] Russia boomed in the 2000s, society stabilized, and a sense of national pride was regained.[29] Russians no longer…
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…and acquire technology across transnational lines. How the U.S. government appropriated university structures and non-state organizations to achieve these ends, and how the two world powers’ use of science evolved…
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…immigrants, artisans, and enterprises. It also became a center for contraband, including weapons smuggling to Polish nationalists in Russian-controlled Warsaw. Krakow itself remained a hub of nationalism and was the…
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…streets no longer wanted to live the way they had been living. “One can’t live like this!” they said. They demanded fundamental changes in the country as a whole, and…
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…with Ethnic Russian Minorities in the Post-Soviet World Ethnic tension with Russian minority populations throughout the post-Soviet world has been widely researched. The largest ethnic minority in the region, considering…
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…News. July 21 1955. Newspapers.com. “Bountiful ‘Lunch’ for the Russians.” Council Bluffs Nonpareil. July 19, 1955. Newspapers.com. “Iowans Meet Soviet Hosts on Farm Tour.” Carrol Daily Times. July 16, 1955….
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…If the person considers him/herself to be Russian, If the person speaks Russian, If the person lives/was born in Russia, If the person is Russian Orthodox, Always, Never, Other)*** Please…
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…medicine & biology, science & technology, foreign books, Russian books, Russian periodicals, foreign periodicals, national literatures, microforms, standards & specifications, non-literary collections, computer center Fontanka Embankment: newspapers, printed music &…
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…the auto industry) and agricultural producers. 31% of all Russians believe that ascension will harm Russia overall and every political party in Russia’s State Duma except United Russia (the ruling…
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…two key components of nationalism: it provides an example of failed unification nationalism and also demonstrates the role of elite competition in generating nationalism. The decline of pro-Romanian nationalism in…
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