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Country Profiles
17 March 2023
The most important issue in Armenia’s regional relations is the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Armenia is a landlocked country flanked by two historical adversaries, Turkey and Azerbaijan, with which it has closed…
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9 February 2023
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Security, International Relations
18 January 2022
The growth of technology and Internet-connected devices has made the surveillance of individuals increasingly possible and common. Governments use surveillance to track individuals for a variety of concerns related to…
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9 February 2023
Updated: February 9, 2023 Within this page, we detail the reasons why we ask you for information, what we do to keep your information secure, and how we use your…
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Country Profiles
22 January 2023
Kyrgyzstan is a small, strikingly mountainous country near the center of the immense Eurasian landmass. Influences from diverse empires can be felt there today: Mongol, Turkic, Persian, Russian/Soviet, and Chinese….
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Country Profiles
19 December 2022
What Georgia might lack in size it makes up for in personality. Over the millennia, the nation we now call Georgia has been part of empires ruled by Romans, Persians,…
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Country Profiles
9 November 2022
When the Silk Road passed through Uzbekistan, its cities grew to some of the world’s largest, most prosperous, and most learned. Many of the great architectural marvels built during those…
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International Relations, Books, Security
19 August 2022
Gerson S Sher, From Pugwash to Putin: A Critical History of US–Soviet Scientific Cooperation. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2019. 318 pp., $80.84 hb. ISBN-13 978-0253042613 Following the death…
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Infrastructure
8 August 2022
Poland offers a broad network of public transportation with Warsaw serving as the central hub. Traveling to and around Warsaw is simple whether you arrive by plane or train. Warsaw’s…
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Infrastructure, Political Economy
31 July 2022
In June 2022, the governments of China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan announced that construction on the long-awaited Silk Road Railway will begin in early 2023. A project more than thirty years…
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Security, Business, Civil Society
20 February 2022
Artificial intelligence has been rising in practical uses for the past several decades. From smart devices to automated weapons, it has changed the way humans live and how countries interact…
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Security, Infrastructure, Political Economy
22 February 2022
Technology is constantly evolving, utilizing ever more bandwidth and making ever more connections between people and devices. Because of this, new cellular networks are needed to keep up with the…
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Archives
4 October 2020
The Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (Российский государственный архив новейшей истории) was created in the end of August of 1991 on the basis of the Archives of the Communist…
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Archives
3 September 2020
The Russian State Archive of Economics is known primarily by RGAE, from the Russian Российский государственный архив экономики. It is the successor of the Central State Archive of the People’s…
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In Translation, Political Organizations, Speech
7 September 2009
Simultaneous interpretation and written translation are two very different arts. A translator working on a text-to-text translation might take several days to complete and polish a translation. Words, syntax, cultural…
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Civil Society, Politicians, Politics
5 October 2019
Svyatoslav Ivanovich Vakarchuk is best known as the lead singer of Okean Elzy, arguably Ukraine’s most popular and successful rock band. He has long used his popularity to speak out…
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Civil Society, Economy
31 March 2020
With quarantine foremost on everyone’s minds, many are asking how current events will change society. Many articles have been published. Yet, very few bother to describe how societies change and…
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25 March 2020
The following resource showcases many of the sites that we’ve come across over the years devoted to history, historical documents, or folklore that we felt were unique enough and useful…
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In Translation, Politicians, Politics, Speech
3 February 2020
Vladimir Putin’s annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly of 2020 may go down in history as one of Russia’s most important. In the address, Putin promises significant increases in…
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In Translation, Speech
4 January 2020
The following is the second of a two part resource presenting the official video, transcript, and official translation for Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference as given on December 19, 2019….
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