Blind in Siberia
…an underground tunnel meant to offer safe passage across the busiest street in Novosibirsk. My fall had happened too fast to stop. Walking quickly homeward, trying to beat the Siberian…
Read More…an underground tunnel meant to offer safe passage across the busiest street in Novosibirsk. My fall had happened too fast to stop. Walking quickly homeward, trying to beat the Siberian…
Read More…сведение всего функционала государства до размеров смартфона. My goal is to make the government’s activities fully transparent, to automate public services online, and to make all government functions fit into…
Read More…- The Vestnik Editorial Board is responsible for approving or rejecting submissions. One-on-One Editing – One member of the board will work directly with the student on improving the submission’s…
Read More…a televised show that began under the USSR in which teams compete in comedy writing and improvisation. It was and remains popular over much of the post-soviet space and some…
Read More…rules on medical services so that patients understand the responsibilities of doctors and medical staff and can protect their own rights. Hospitals and ambulance services will be equipped with modern…
Read More…via a pipeline from Russia. Perhaps because of its largely non-functioning borders, Armenia has been forced to rapidly develop a services industry, particularly in IT services, to allow its economy…
Read More…operation. These mostly stemmed from a severe underestimation of the demand for the service – and crowds overwhelmed the cars and stations. The management of the MCD has promised to…
Read More…not far from the reactor. They initially estimated that the reactor would be back in service by May or June. Everyone, including those in Europe already being affected by the…
Read More…transport corridor between Iran and Russia. Working towards peace in the region would allow Western countries access to faster transport routes between the Black Sea and Persian Gulf as well…
Read More…month. Despite its many challenges, Turkeminstan’s economy is one of the world’s fastest growing. GDP rose from 2.3 billion in 2000 to nearly 42 billion in 2013 as the price…
Read More…Georgia. The major industry in Abkhazia continues to be tourism, which relies on Russians coming to Abkhazia’s cheap resorts. Russia’s official recognition of Abkhazia in 2008 brought increased numbers of…
Read More…fully online. Surely, use of online services will go up; people have few other options if they are not allowed to leave their homes. Many will have first-time experiences in…
Read More…is an amalgamation of Turkish and Persian words that together mean “black garden.” Nagorno-Karabakh features several small, fast-flowing rivers cutting several deep ravines through mineral-rich mountainous country on their way…
Read More…Russia and especially Moscow. It was authored in the original Russian by Olga Churakova. We highly recommend that students view the original story, available online. Below the introductory text has…
Read More…personal, but political (qtd. in Essig 179). In “The Politics of Pride,” Alice Underwood, writing for the Harvard International Review, states that after the 1934 passing of Article 121 in…
Read More…of the Russian Federation is the главнокомандующийcommander-in-chief. All Russian young men must spend one to two years performing either военная службаmilitary service or альтернативная службаalternative service. Military service is notoriously…
Read More…experienced a spike in competition for economic resources, including competition for the best and brightest of Russia’s talent. This can be contributed to a number of factors. First, the number…
Read More…there is plenty of that! But some of the best places are priced quite reasonably – about on a par with Paris, and far cheaper than London. Add to this…
Read More…information. Who We Are GeoHistory.Today is run as a free service of SRAS. SRAS is a study abroad organization that also promotes the understanding of languages, cultures, and societies….
Read More…of the right to work in government service. – Вследствие люстрации состоится очистка судейской системы и государственной службы. – As a result of the lustration, there will be a cleansing…
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