…Party. With the 2014 parliamentary elections, Plahotnuic took back his seat and his place in public politics in Moldova. His feud with Filat continued. In 2015, the Banking Scandal broke….
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…corps de ballet entirely. She left St. Petersburg to join the Bolshoi two years ago, where she is now the undisputed star. Her recent Bayadere was breathtaking. Though admittedly, as…
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…widespread conflict. A map of Georgia showing surrounding countries and the breakaway states of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Georgia is called “Sakartvelo” by its natives, who call themselves “Kartvelebi.” How…
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…The vast majority of the country is mountainous. Osh & The Fergana Valley are separated from the majority of the country by a substantial mountain range. Photo from Wikipedia Commons….
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…Ibid, 53-4. [31] Olcott, Kazakhs, 112-3; Sabol, Kazakh National Consciousness, 64-5. [32] Ibid., 66-7. [33] Kendirbayeva, “Children of Alash,” 7-8. [34] Sabol, Kazakh National Consciousness, 68-70. [35] Ibid., 108-9. [36]…
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…most transparent bank in Russia.” VTB is now based in St. Petersburg and operates 1,700 branches and 18,000 ATMs across Russia, serving 14 million clients. Domestically, they control 17 percent…
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…the Eurasian Economic Union. It also joined the Russia- and China- led Collective Security Treaty Organization. Russia has subsidized the construction of hydroelectric projects in Kyrgyzstan and given economic and…
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…Cited Bosley, R. D. (1981). Dissertation: The Veneration of St. Theodosij and St. Antonisij. Yale University. Cross, S. H. (1953). The Russian Primary Chronicle. Cambridge, MA: Crimson Printing Company. Dukes,…
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…1230s. “Tatar” later became the official identifier used by 18th- and 19th-century Russian ethnographers to refer to all Turkic groups living on Russian-controlled territory. Tatars, because of their association with…
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…our country among them. 2. Осуществление модернизации страны. Отказ от коммунизма сопровождался кризисом российской государственности. Предшествующие 20 лет были периодом, аналогичным периоду Смуты, — временем кризиса государственности и распада общества….
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…efforts. There is additional information on China’s state website as well. Japan International Cooperation Agency is essentially Japan’s version of USAID. They have ongoing projects in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan….
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…Левада-центр. “Социальная дистансия.” 20 April 2020. Web. —. “Страх другого. Проблема гомофобии в России.” 12 March 2013. Web. Pipes, Richard. “Is Russia Still an Enemy?” Foreign Affairs, vol. 76, no….
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…Publishing Resources for Researchers of Russia Posted: 21 September 2020 This page is developed by SRAS.org. It is devoted to resources for advancing the careers of academics in fields related…
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…2006. STRATFOR19. 1999 (June 14). “Conflict Threatens Caucasus Pipelines.” <http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/print.php?storyId=101903> Accessed April 29, 2006. STRATFOR20. 2005 (March 18). “Chechnya: Russian Moves, U.S. Countermoves.” <http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/print.php?storyId=245919> Accessed April 27, 2006. STRATFOR21. 2005…
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…recruited from other parties including Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna Party. Poroshenko meets US President Barack Obama in June 2014. Public domain image. Campaigning as independent, socially conservative party that would be tough…
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…Program (a partner program with SRAS’s Baikal Environmental Studies). In part based on his performance studying with TBI, he was offered the opportunity to lead the organization’s programs. Interview by…
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…register the organization as a political party. Some Russia-watchers speculated that this party might prove to be Russia’s first successful attempt at a real grass-roots, non-Kremlin supported opposition political movement….
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…statue of Lenin in front of the main government building. Photo from Balcanicaucaso.org. Since the ceasefire, little has changed in Transdnestria’s situation. Extensive negotiations have been conducted, both directly between…
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…necessarily producing maximum yields). Orange areas have large-scale farming, but little investment in machinery and fertilizers. Blue is occupied by reindeer production. Green is classed as “unused.” Note that this…
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…for the masses accepting liberation and revolutionary ideas. Российская история полностью подтверждает взгляд на роль революций как локомотивов истории. Без крестьянских войн С.Т. Разина и Е.И. Пугачёва, идей А.Н. Радищева,…
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