Volodymyr Zelensky: Comedy and Politics
…Donbas, the group donated one million hryvnia (about $80,000 at the time) to the war effort and visited injured soldiers in hospitals. Initially, Zelensky had no platform declared. Instead, his…
Read More…Donbas, the group donated one million hryvnia (about $80,000 at the time) to the war effort and visited injured soldiers in hospitals. Initially, Zelensky had no platform declared. Instead, his…
Read More…Will Party (led by Sergei Baburin), For a Dignified Life (led by Sergei Glazev), and the United Socialist Party of Russia. Dmitri Rogozin, founder of Rodina and current Deputy Prime…
Read More…its quest to be both ‘normal’ and ‘unique’ Russia has succeeded in creating a precarious domestic and international position that has the potential to cause both internal discord and strained…
Read More…Protests continued throughout the week, until, on Saturday, December 10, 2011, between 25,000 and 100,000 people congregated on and around Bolotnaya Square in central Moscow demanding free and fair elections….
Read More…next day, and the settlement was renamed—for the third time—to Dakhovsky, after the home village of the Cossack detachment that first entered the fort. Fighting officially ended May 21, 1864,…
Read More…the land and often no permission was ever granted to build structures on the land. Despite this, families had often lived for decades on the land, in houses they had…
Read More…in Lvov did not have to deal with the devastation of invasion and plague, it assimilated rapidly, and likewise during the eighteenth century became much less distinct from the local…
Read More…newly-socialized kitchen took a slight turn. After a poor grain harvest and subsequent food rationing, Lenin understood that rioting Soviet citizens had to be fed and enacted a program called…
Read More…forested), stripped green (swampland), yellow (desert), and stripped white (arctic tundra) are largely depopulated and were used for hunting, trapping, and nomadic herding, if at all. The area around Moscow…
Read More…all…And indeed he cannot but be loved and honored, his dignitaries cannot fail to receive respect and obedience, nor can the wretched fail to obtain relief… Even more effectively does…
Read More…coincided with the forced settlement and collectivisation of the nomadic Kazakhs, resulting in the death of at least one third of them in a tragedy that has been described by…
Read More…Soviet Policy and Practice toward Third World Conflicts (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983), 27; hereafter cited as Soviet Policy and Practice toward Third World Conflicts. [2] Ibid., 3. [3] Stalin,…
Read More…Verkhovna Rada, in 2009. This was, in part, due to wide-spread disillusionment with the political deadlock that followed the Orange Revolution and the perceived inability of Yushchenko’s government with the…
Read More…<http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/print.php?storyId=220938> Accessed April 28, 2006. STRATFOR6. 2002 (July 10). “U.S. Projects Power Into Kazakhstan.” <http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/print.php?storyId=205199> Accessed May 7, 2006. STRATFOR7. 2005 (April 19). “Kazakhstan: Bridging the Caspian.” <http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/print.php?storyId=247324> Accessed May…
Read More…of the Soviets did not make Russia a prosperous country with a dynamically developing society and free people. Communism vividly demonstrated its inaptitude for sound self-development, dooming our country to…
Read More…socialist system from being utilized, and instead deformed this system and stalled advancement. Because of this, many people became disillusioned and lost their faith. Без учёта этих обстоятельств нельзя правильно…
Read More…at present Transdnestria remains isolated and unrecognized. A map showing Moldova and the disputed area of Transdnistria (in yellow) and the formerly disputed region of Gagauzia (in red), a region…
Read More…to guaranteed free medical service will be protected by law. We will expand the network of generally accessible medical institutions, and we will include hospitals reserved for deputies and government…
Read More…United Russia received a majority and in many cases a super-majority in almost every region. In the Moscow Duma, United Russia took 32 of the 35 seats, leaving three to…
Read More…future. We believe that reforms should be directed not at destruction, but at stimulating and developing the positives already present in society. Reforms should facilitate societal integration and not division….
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