…years still stand. Today, Uzbekistan remains Central Asia’s most populous country. Although mostly desert, it is rich in mineral wealth and its Ferghana Valley is the region’s most agriculturally productive…
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…from all the major candidates. What do you think, have they improved? Sergei Sobyanin (United Russia): Alexei Navalny: Nikolai Levichev (Just Russia): Sergei Mitrokhin (Yabloko): And also Mikhail Degtyarev (LDPR):…
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…of vital natural resources. The world economic crisis is intensifying. Capitalism undermines peoples’ lives by redrawing state borders, through man-made catastrophes, cultural and moral decay, through local wars and the…
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…the mid-1100s when German merchants arrived with Catholic missionaries in tow. Although welcoming of trade, the Latvians so harshly rejected the missionaries that, in 1193, Pope Celestine III called for…
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…Photo from www.spb.mironov.ru A Just Russia, a social-democratic party, has made at least two overtures to the Communist Party of Russia. The first was a proposal to merge and came…
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…the least out of the three Caucasian republics, as it did not have the oil reserves of Azerbaijan, nor the industrial capacity of Georgia (although Armenia’s industrial capacity had doubled…
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…Our Moldova Alliance party and Liberal Democratic Party, Lupu helped form the ruling Alliance for European Integration (AIE) coalition. Although the AEI put Lupu forward as its presidential candidate, the…
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…styles which mix Catherine’s favorite neoclassical style with Italian baroque, Russian and Soviet styles. Also present are several exquisite examples of art-deco architecture, built in the first two decades after…
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…as the result of perceived internal and external existential threats. Perceived internal threats are seen as stemming from minority groups living within Latvia, while perceived external threats are seen as…
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…public lists of candidates for legislature and the voters are allowed to cast their vote only for one party, rather than for individual candidates. Parties are then assigned seats proportional…
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…minority population in all of Russia, second only to Moscow. Most of these minorities are Chinese. Exact figures are unknown since Russia’s migration service does not publish this information and…
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…cost it political capital with voters who had supported the original parties as opposition parties. SPS party leader Leonid Gozman perhaps summed the general argument best by saying that carrying…
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…candidates – including the increasingly popular Zelensky. This is also common for any individual considering candidacy as a way to set themselves apart from all others in the field. Vakarchuk…
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…by using case studies of individual actors (oligarchs) and overall economic conditions. The final section will give answers to the specific questions raised in the first paragraph above. Historical Summary…
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…and Mali (1968) that overthrew pro-Soviet leaders were the final blow to the “Casablanca Bloc” and, in large part, ended the Soviets’ legitimacy in Africa. After seeing all the potential…
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…see a total investment of 20 trillion rubles into various social and economic spheres in Russia. A major forum was recently held in the Moscow region that called a wide…
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…relates to territorial integrity. We have resolved all the questions we had, and all the documents are signed. I do not quite understand what a legal evaluation of these actions…
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…almost always difficult, but the vital activity of the rural-urban population of the Russian provinces is as ineradicable as nature itself. Our geographers carried out research on rural settlements. The…
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…its mineral wealth to gain economic prosperity and a renewed stance in world politics, his chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev (who also has a 64-point lead in the presidential polls), has…
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…now. All possible alternative scenarios were carefully studied and recalculated. It turned out that they do not provide any radical solutions. At best, they amount to just patching holes. Worse,…
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