…Posted: 29 October 2017 Central Asia is, by its most common definition, those five “stans” that were formerly Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. However, this has… comments…
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…population that neither wanted nor trusted it. It found decaying, cheaply built factories, substandard housing, and entire settlements built in economically unjustifiable locations. Advertising, banking, retail supply chains, and corporate…
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…be called the Golden Road, the meeting point of the northern and southern branches of the Great Silk Road, and hence a great center for commerce, religion, and culture. In…
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…free – to join our party, become a part of it, infuse our movement with their strength, and prove to their children, grandchildren, and most importantly, to themselves, that they…
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…– транспортной, промышленной, информационно-коммуникационной, финансовой, социальной. Россия нуждается в территориальном планировании, которое позволит обустроить ее пространства. Economic modernization of the Russian regions will rely on creating a modern infrastructure—transportation, industrial,…
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…the basmachis were, in fact, an “all-people” resistance movement, made up of many languages, ethnicities, and religions. And for a while at least, the basmachis put up a good fight,…
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…can buy various prizes, such as candy, games, or puzzles. After completing Perviy shag v obshchestvo, students in grades 5-7 transition into My i obshchestvo, which means “Us and Society,”…
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…ratified, a new, simplified US-Russia visa regime will take effect on September 9, 2012. Both countries will issue business, tourist, private, and humanitarian visas that allow for stays of up…
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…Russian archives will need to be done in Russian. All documentation, requests, official letters, etc., must also be submitted in Russian. And, of course, the documents inside will generally be…
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…For some, it was nothing less than genocide, or, at the very least, ethnic cleansing, while other sources prefer the terms “exile,” “deportation,” or even “migration.” Numerous eyewitnesses described Circassian…
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…and replaced, perhaps ironically, by Viktor Yanukovych, who, this time, won what was roundly seen as a free and fair election. As in the 2004 elections, Yanukovych saw strong support…
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…decline in Krakow’s importance. In 1596, Sigismund III, then King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, King of Sweden, and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, made Warsaw his new capital, moving the…
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…социальное партнерство, единство поколений The Middle Class, Social Partnership, and the Generational Solidarity «ЕДИНАЯ РОССИЯ», выступая за формирование сильного среднего класса как основы общественной стабильности, будет добиваться сокращения социального неравенства,…
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…на основе собственной истории, культуры, духовности. И одновременно это идеология, призванная освободить страну от застарелых социальных недугов, разрушить преграды на пути инноваций, новых достижений. Ее цель – построение новой, свободной,…
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…the present. We wanted to cast our nets widely across history, literature, political life, art, the countryside, and the everyday (shopping, cooking, housing, Soviet anecdotes). We spent weeks, indeed months,…
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…just after the 2007 vote, in which the Communists had been supported by 11.5% of voters. However, the Communist leader scoffed at the proposal, calling A Just Russia a “charade.”…
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…London: Hodder Education, 2008) [5] Harrison, M. The Economics of Coercion and Conflict. Singapore: World Scientific, 2015, p. 16 [6] Foucault, M., Gordon, C., and Patton, P. Consideration on Marxism,…
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…of the pro-Romanian Popular Front and the pro-Moldovan Democratic Agrarian Party. The Popular Front, the elite group that catalyzed this affair, was mainly composed of intellectuals, journalists, writers, historians, college-educated…
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…the history of food production, distribution, and availability is often tied to the history of great societal shifts. Hunger, or the fear of hunger, can help drive revolution, while prosperity…
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