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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Public Education in Russia from Peter I to the Present
…more global, so has education in Russia. In order to more closely correspond with educational systems in the USA in Europe, the Russian system has begun to change. Now, many…
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Russian MiniLessons: Political Asylum and Related Russian Vocabulary
The following bilingual Russian MiniLesson is meant to build your vocabulary by providing Russian phrases within English text. Hover over the bold Russian to reveal its English translation. Recently, US…
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Rejecting Professional Medicine in Contemporary Russia
…professional medical care. According to surveys conducted in Russia within the last decade (Brown, Rusinova 1993; Shilova 1999, 2000; Pachenkov 2001; Maximova 2002; Shishkin 2004; Brown, Rusinova 2005), people are…
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Putin’s National Address on Pension Reform
Background: Pension reform has become a pressing issue in Russia. Russia currently has one of the world’s lowest retirement ages (55 for women and 60 for men), unchanged since Soviet…
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Ukraine Update in 7 Sentences
…securing the rights of Russians and Russian speakers. The recent protests and political upheaval in Ukraine, however, helped reignite it. The pro-Russia separatist movement was important in moving the peninsula…
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International Relations at the Lenin Library
…the burden of the Stalinist past. This piece is published in The Russia Reader in English only. Below, however, an excerpt is presented with the original Russian in a side-by-side…
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Resolving the Crimean Crisis: What will Russia have on the table?
…international relations. Russia’s Imperatives and Military Logic Russia’s maintenance of geostrategic imperatives explains several actions that Russia has taken that many in West consider counterproductive or irrational. For example, Russia…
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United Russia: Ruling Party (Part III)
…Russia «ЕДИНАЯ РОССИЯ» будет добиваться, чтобы 60% российских семей располагало возможностью самостоятельно решить свою жилищную проблему. United Russia will labor so that 60% of all Russian families will be able…
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Latvia: A Case Study of Colonization and Independence
…as a united nation. Russian Rule Sweden’s Baltic empire faced opposition from all sides. In 1700, a coalition of Denmark- Norway, Poland, and Russia all invaded, one after the other….
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Life with Aids in Rural Russia: A Photo Essay
…Russians to reveal her HIV-status to the world, giving, what many have come to call ‘a face to the HIV-positive community in Russia.’ Living with HIV for three years, Svetlana…
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Poland: An Emerging Central European Power?
…map for over 200 years. The population was split between very different worlds. Austria, for instance, granted considerable autonomy and saw relative stability. Russia, which took the largest share, tried…
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Batkivshchyna: Party Platform
…the 2012 elections. Both have been translated by Home and Abroad Scholars at the School of Russian and Asian Studies from Russian translations of the Ukrainian original texts. Jump to…
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Rodina
…Russia, now Russia’s third most powerful political party. Rodina’s renewed independent status may draw members away from A Just Russia, weakening it and perhaps removing it entirely from Russian domestic…
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The Russian Far East: Gateway to Asia
…– including from the US. Photo: Vladivostok News Domestically, the Russian Far East has recently been brought nearer to Moscow by consolidating Russia’s time zones. These time zones were established…
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Russia’s Volunteering Youth: The Fashionable Adolescence
…for a fellowship through this program after spending four years teaching English in Russia and Turkey. After a lengthy application and brief Russian-English interview, I was selected as a member…
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Shifting Memorialization of WWII in Latvia
…(2008), showing that Russia and Russians remain exactly the same. The film highlights nationalist and anti-immigrant rhetoric from Russian parliamentarians and violence carried out by Russian nationalist groups to “purify…
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International Summit On Municipal Infrastructure
This resource looks at Russian news broadcasts and presents each with rhetorical and contextual analysis as well as a brief vocabulary list aimed at intermediate-level Russian students. We hope that…
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Five Russia-Related Issues to Watch this Semester
…the auto industry) and agricultural producers. 31% of all Russians believe that ascension will harm Russia overall and every political party in Russia’s State Duma except United Russia (the ruling…
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Sergey Lavrov on US-Russia Relations
This resource looks at Russian news broadcasts and presents each with rhetorical and contextual analysis as well as a brief vocabulary list aimed at intermediate-level Russian students. We hope that…
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