Tbilisi: The Immortal City
…the Caucasus. This golden age ended abruptly in the 13th century with the arrival of the Mongols, and Tbilisi was conquered and sacked first by the Khwarezmians and then by…
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Russia in Space
…some fifty new facilities, including a new cosmonaut training center, an airfield, an “akademgorodok” (a large scientific research and residential complex), a new presidential compound, and a vast amount of…
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Declaration Of The Formation Of The All-Russia People’s Front
…и видов профессиональной деятельности. a society of free and prosperous people, built on the values of equal rights for women and men, mutual respect and civil solidarity between the representatives…
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Petro Poroshenko & His Bloc
…the gambit of Ukraine’s political field. Petro Poroshenko was a member of the pro-Russian Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) when he decided to create a new parliamentary faction called…
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Volgograd: History and Myth
…million people, is also the capital of its surrounding oblast, which is also known as Volgograd. Both political entities have been the site of several many post-Soviet scandals and upsets….
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Road Map to Solidarity: Part I
…has taken no steps to prove its intentions to bring a democratic socio-political system to Russia. Instead, new signals have been sent showing the escalation of the tyranny of an…
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Book Review of Music and Soviet Power by Marina Frolova-Walker and Jonathan Walker
…a flourishing musical world of new material from composers like Prokofiev who had emigrated from Russia following the revolution and the French composer Darius Milhaud. This influx of new musical…
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Contemporary Russian-Serbian Relations: Interviews with Youth from Political Parties in Belgrade and Vojvodina
…geopolitical importance of energy in international relations would be important and timely. I am also very interested in the connection between xenophobia and post-socialism, how Serbia’s connection with Russia might…
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South Ossetia: Old Territory, New Problems
…Alans remained formidable horsemen. They survived as a buffer state between the empires of the Khazars, Byzantines, and Arabs for several centuries, mainly by allying with one empire against another….
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A Remedy for Legal Failure: Trial by Jury in Russia
…Although the legal system initially proclaimed all citizens equal, in practice this was rare. The unitary court system soon divided into regional, territorial, supreme, and extra-judicial courts (tribunals often associated…
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Russian for Wonks: Demographics and Childbirth
…to a regular lunch break, working women with children under the age of eighteen months must also be given перерывы на кормление ребенка’child-feeding breaks’. These are supposed to occur каждые…
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US-Russia Relations After September 11, 2001: A Game Theory Analysis
…States.[xxix] Alliances made with America have traditionally been tactical and strategic, rather than cultural and structural. Vladimir Putin speaks fluent German, not English, and has often stressed the need for…
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Sufi-Salafi Institutional Competition and Conflict in the Chechen Republic
…of the North Caucasus is a political matter, not a sociological or ideological one. II. Islamic Institutional Competition and Conflict in the Chechen Republic In assessing how institutional differences between…
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Youth Crime under Perestroika
…may have been driven to semilegal or even criminal careers in order to make ends meet, or even dropped out in order to focus on a criminal career which promised…
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Voice of Ukraine: Campaign Platform in English
…and all other official political materials of the party are fairly extensive and have been released only in Ukrainian. However, the party, while small, has been a surprise hit in…
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Yabloko: A New Political Course
…which largely confirms the values that have been at Yabloko’s core since its foundation and can also be seen in its official political platform. О новом политическом курсе On A…
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Grocery Shopping in Russia: 1917 – Present
…market value had reached, although officials would argue that prices were driven by individual greed. The markets were fairly common and officially tolerated—even supported—to ensure a stable food supply. Hidden…
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President of Kazakhstan resigns; Garbage reform in Russia; “Crimean Spring” Day Celebrated
…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7xX6V1SBE The “Crimean Spring” Holiday Celebrated Putin’s falling approval numbers have been reported on broadly as an end to the “Crimean Consensus” – the boost to his numbers given…
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Trends in Cultural Education in Kyrgyzstan
…To this end, the National Advisory Board is working to formulate a curriculum that includes various Kyrgyz traditions, moral, and societal values. Unfortunately, there has been little progress, as historical…
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Ordinary Men? Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied Mogilevskaya Oblast’
…was also built in the house, and underground newspapers were published, among them the “official” oblast’ underground newspaper, Za Rodinu (For the Motherland), alongside important announcements and orders from Moscow.[79]…
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