…of fault. For instance, the program admits that Communist production had focused on quantity rather than quality, leading to a deficit in quality goods and unhappy Soviet consumers. There is…
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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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…Film to Maintain the Nationalist Perspective Meanwhile, the long-standing popular narrative has been bolstered by popular media. The documentary film The Soviet Story, for instance, represents a more nationalistic perspective…
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…World Bank Group, only 19% of investors said that taxes adversely affect Russia’s investment climate. 51% named political uncertainty and macroeconomic instability. Contributing to this opinion are Russia’s still half-Soviet,…
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…up and installed a guard, who was to open the door only for me. Я вернулась в гостиницу “Краснодар” (лучшая в городе) и вместе с перепуганным директором стала осматривать номера…
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…Socialists are deputies that defected from the Communists. Although Dodon ran on a decidedly Socialist and pro-Russian platform, promising, for instance, to break Moldova’s trade agreement with the EU in…
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…выполнить обещание увеличить добычу собственных энергоресурсов. They plan to invest billions of hryvnia towards insulating houses and installing heat and gas meters. It remains unclear whether this will be done…
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…who received a visa from Germany, for instance, can travel to any of the countries within the Schengen Zone on that German-issued visa. It has been very popular with Russians….
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…power. Reporters without Borders cites common instances of harassment or arbitrary detention for journalists in Azerbaijan. The Aliyevs, Heidar (right) and his son Ilham (left), have ruled Azerbaijan since 1993….
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…for instance, is a free response and simply asks respondents to list ways in which degradation of the environment impacts their daily lives. For the purposes of this study, a…
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…with time served. To place this in wider context, we should first remember that in no society is freedom of speech absolute. US legislation, for instance, restricts obscene, libelous, or…
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…instance, are simply told that they cannot meet at all. The authorities have often used the excuse that the event would pose a threat to protestors’ health and lives because…
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…from 1991-1993. They do not state specifically how instances of property privatized at that time and resold afterwards would be handled – but do propose “isolating” oligarchs until they “restore”…
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…to be rules on how laptops and cell phones can be used, for instance. The archives are led by an archivist who will be in charge of getting you what…
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…a substantial share of the company that produces the technology. [15] Many cities in Siberia, for instance, have no paved road connecting them to the outside world. Many have no…
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…constitution. Earlier that same year, the country had experienced a revolution which had several repercussions: the toppling of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev; the installation of an interim government under President Rosa…
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…two hour train ride from St. Petersburg, for instance, in the ancient city of Novgorod, I hung back to adjust my umbrella and purse while on a tour of the…
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With the creation of the Eurasian Economic Community’s customs union (“Customs Union”) in 2010, total trade among Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan skyrocketed.[1] Emboldened by such results, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir…
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…washers on the streets of Moscow actually made 40,000 rubles a day. Vinogradova maintains that these youth seek instant gratification; they want wealth now and “not in some unforeseeable future.”…
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…changes – such as changes to social structures, can be seen in the same light. The LGBTQ rights movement in the US, for instance, came after decades of largely successful…
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