…mountains. Today, these plains are a heavy patchwork of farms producing cereals, vegetables, poultry, mutton, cattle, and more. About sixty percent of the region’s GDP currently comes from agriculture and…
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…foreign currencies. In 1997 the bank was transformed into an open joint stock company, with the Russian Central Bank holding a 96.8 percent stake in the company. This would later…
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…was never intended to be completely comprehensive, the variety of topics feel simultaneously a little disjointed and not broad enough. Taken together, the chapters allude to an overarching theme—one that…
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…Vimplecom (Beeline), and Rostelecom (Tele2). While fierce competition has led to low telecommunication prices in Russia, the four have been successful in working together to lobby for some issues like…
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…in October 2009, the first major election Right Cause participated in, polls and political commentators predicted that the party would win between 5-8% of the vote. However, the party only…
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…a university physics professor. Vakarchuk attended Lviv Secondary School (now Lviv Linguistic High School) where he participated in KVN, an organization launched under the USSR that features comedy and theatre…
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…the freedom to overthrow the workers’ authorities.”[48] A quote from Karl Radek, then a member of both the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Executive Committee of the…
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…representatives of the Communist Party and forcing out two other parties, A Just Russia and Yabloko, altogether. While complaints about electoral fraud, ballot stuffing, and voter intimidation were not uncommon…
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…doubly emphasizes their Communist foundations, but also serves to co-opt the “Communist Party” name from the larger KPRF. The KR believes that the KPRF has lost touch with its Marxist…
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…of those groups. Alex Goldfarb, director of the Foundation for Civil Liberties, named his own group, which is financed by Boris Berezovsky, and the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, which has…
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…was modeled after that of the Germans: it was open to secondary school graduates and took five years to complete. Upon completion, a “Diploma of Higher Education” in a specialized…
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…development, is comparatively small at $1 billion. Yet because of its high level of human capital, Russian IT companies are building a successful track record in the global outsourcing industry….
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…in the coming years, however, as more Ukrainians are migrating to the EU and the United States, searching for better opportunities. Much of Poroshenko’s competition has pointed to his failure…
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…to just a day off). In a recent poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation, only 20% of respondents said that it held greater meaning. Again, this is reflective of…
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…и услуги. – We will announce a war on monopolies in all sectors. We will create conditions for honest competition. We will protect consumers from monopolistically-high prices on goods and…
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…as “tariff barriers”—means that Russian industries increasingly will feel the pressure of global competition. Will the Russian forestry sector be able to compete globally with companies that already have well-established…
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…the Communist Party would permit freer interactions between Americans and Soviets. With financial assistance from the Ford Foundation, the Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, or the IUCTG, was created to…
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…Communist Party in the United States. The socialist and communist Finns split over these influences, and communist Finns formed their own Finnish halls.[18] In 1923, the Federation officially affiliated itself…
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