…their language of choice and many converted to Roman Catholicism, the main religion in Poland. However, the peasantry continued to speak Ukrainian and remained largely Ukrainian Orthodox. Many peasants would…
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…who helped build many of the city’s important landmarks from theatres to synagogues. The People’s Friendship Arch is one of many Soviet-era monuments in Kiev dedicated to celebrating the union…
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…to the schedule are not posted on the site. If an archivist is trying to force a few opisi and dela on you, insisting that you need to take a…
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…international employment in fields related to Eurasia, hosted on SRAS.org, our guide on researching history and culture online, and the gudies to Russian archives on this site. Each month the…
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…people that were contaminated due to this advice to go out and celebrate. All footage of the May 1986 celebrations has disappeared from Ukraine archives. More than 600 people were…
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…paper before publication under the guidance of our editorial board. Policies Papers are published across the SRAS Family of Sites, with a central page for each issue posted on GeoHistory….
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…which was spewing massive amounts of radioactive particles into the air. For two days, the Soviet Union maintained silence on the catastrophe. When the Soviet government finally disclosed the incident…
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…flat, arid center. The country’s few mountains, grouped along its borders, receive enough rain to support grasslands and some forests. However, the mountains are not high enough to maintain the…
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…the main band and largely blocked the mobile operators’ access to the 3.4-3.8 GHz band. Also, frequencies in the 4.4-4.99 GHz band are not prioritized by global telecommunication equipment producers,…
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…the northeast is Lake Issyk Kul, a massive body of salt water and popular tourist site Location Bishkek is the capital of Kyrgyz Republic and administrative center of the…
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…spent our free time walking to another bazaar to shop for souvenirs before we were driven to an arranged dinner at a local homestay where we were served a lot…
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…a new city be built on the site. Thus the city received its name, Tbilisi, meaning “a warm place” in Georgian. As is the case with many ancient cities, archaeological…
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…to defend the oblast’ capital from the invaders. The rivers of Dvina and Dnepr, which were the main rivers that stood between the Wehrmacht and Moscow, became defensive positions.[10] The…
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…transcript and translation below is as given on the Kremlin’s official site. It has been reformatted so that students of language can better use it as a learning resource. All…
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…to educate people at home about these unique places and thier cultures, our Family of Sites features information covering thousands of webpages across six different sites, much of it written…
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…pictures are also available from the AFEW site (without captions). All material reproduced here with the permission of Liza Shurik and AFEW. According to UN estimates, between .5 and 1.5…
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…said Vitaly Kostomarov, president of the State Institute of Russian Language in Moscow. “But introducing it as the main language of interethnic communication in the former Soviet Union will require…
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…norm in the Arctic, notably in resolving and expanding territorial disputes and in maintaining environmental stability there. Map originally published by Tufts University showing territorial division in the Arctic. Problem…
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…homogeneity within the mass of relations designated by the term ‘society.’ As Bourdieu writes ‘every group is the site of struggle to impose a legitimate principle of group construction.’[2] ‘Nation’…
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…to foster greater cooperation on AI in the private sector. Participants include Yandex, Mail.ru, Gazprom Neft, MTS, Sberbank, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund. However, some of these participants have…
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