Vyacheslav Volodin
…credited as the principal architect of the regime’s “conservative turn” following Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012. Volodin also led the ostensibly democratic electoral reforms that helped appease those…
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Chechen-Ingush Land Dispute: A Policy Primer
…Yevkurov responded by submitting an official request for the decision to be reviewed by Russia’s Federal Constitutional Court. There is also debate surrounding whether regions need federal approval to determine…
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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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Book Review of Hard by a Great Forest
…simply understand the injustice of it all. The characters’ goal through all 352 pages is to piece back together families torn apart and people ruined by wars that they had…
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12 Things You Should Know about the Agreement in Ukraine
…power to govern locally and finance local projects. Russia supports this measure. The parliament’s recent decision to strike down a 2012 bill that allowed regions to name additional official languages…
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Igor Sechin
…Sistema’s formation of Bashneft. This scandal sent the value of the company down and called into question its continued existence. Thus, although the government acquired 72% of the company’s shares,…
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Georgia’s Young Ministers and Younger Democracy
…of disunity could hurt the fledgling administration. Thus, the backgrounds and recent behavior of these officials all converge on two alarming tendencies: general inexperience and a political solidarity that is…
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Historical Context and Modern Demands: Reinterpreting Linguistic Human Rights in Ukraine
…of minority languages. The next development in international law regarding linguistic rights came with the International Covenant on Cultural and Political Rights, which came into effect in 1976. This covenant…
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Moldovan Politics: Introduction
…well-meaning idealism can result in a democracy’s long-term economic and political impediment. As the USSR crumbled, a pro-western, nationalist liberal movement arose in Moldova. Dreaming of a unified space where…
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2020 Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly in Side-by-Side Translation
…the digital transformation in national education; teachers and students should have access to advanced educational programmes; individual approach to teaching should be practiced to reveal each child’s talents. У нас…
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Voice of Ukraine: Campaign Platform in English
…officials are quite clearly defined. The party wants to reintroduce criminal liability for officials for illegal enrichment, and also to create a civil confiscation procedure for illegally acquired property. В…
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Azerbaijan: A People from the Mists of Time
…to dominate nearly all of the Northern and Southern Caucuses. The Tsar allowed the local khanates in Azerbaijan a considerable deal of autonomy until the 1870s, when Azerbiajan’s massive oil…
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Parnas: The People’s Freedom Party
…register the organization as a political party. Some Russia-watchers speculated that this party might prove to be Russia’s first successful attempt at a real grass-roots, non-Kremlin supported opposition political movement….
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Ecotourism in Siberia: Development and Challenges on Olkhon Island
…1 species of amphibians, dozens of which are endangered or regionally endemic. The island also along contains numerous natural monuments, as well as 143 archaeological monuments, including rock carvings, ancient…
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The Communists of Russia: Platform and History
…private property is protected by law; article 3, paragraph 35, which prohibits the unconditional and compulsory alienation of property for state needs and several other provisions. A national commission to…
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An Armenian Abroad: Adjusting to Life in St. Petersburg
…finding familiar pleasures while abroad can also be rewarding and assuage the pangs of homesickness. I was also curious to view how Armenian culture was viewed and presented in Russia,…
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Odessa: A City Born Again and Again
…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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Vladimir Putin’s Annual News Conference in Side-by-Side Translation – Part II
…терять свою квалификацию. Second, we will extend the maternity capital programme and expand the opportunities for its use, namely, and most importantly, maternity capital can now be cashed and spent…
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Ukraine Update in 7 Sentences
…many countries in the Caucasus, Africa, and South America, as well as every member of BRICS abstained from the vote. Russia still has many levers of international power including political,…
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