Russian MiniLessons: Ссориться по-русски – Fighting in Russian
…are you so worked up about? or “прекращайте, (вы) друзья – а ссоритесь…”Stop it, you are friends and yet fighting?. There is a belief that “чем быстрее вы помиритесь, тем…
Read More…are you so worked up about? or “прекращайте, (вы) друзья – а ссоритесь…”Stop it, you are friends and yet fighting?. There is a belief that “чем быстрее вы помиритесь, тем…
Read More…on resolving internal issues and conflicts. From the 2000s onward, Russia has made efforts to rebuild some of the relationship that deteriorated during the 1980s and 1990s. In 2004, Vladimir…
Read More…and even questions over franchising rights, which are often granted by geographic area, must also be addressed. McDonald’s locations in Crimea, for instance, have closed as the franchisee for Russia…
Read More…number of Crimeans claiming Ukraine as their motherland has risen to over 71% in 2011 from just 38% in 2008. However, efforts to expand the usage of the Ukrainian language…
Read More…another card altogether and put money on that. Granted, not very efficient nor environmentally friendly, but it is what it is. To buy a pre-paid card, there is a machine…
Read More…would protect them from Russian invasion and influence. The Islam of Chechnya, thus, has typically been a particularly political form of Islam. Several efforts have been made to unite the…
Read More…that these inhabitants add about another million to Moscow’s effective population. Within Moscow’s borders on any given day are also a few million commuters who live in the city’s sprawling…
Read More…Volokolamsk, for instance, dozens of local children were hospitalized with respiratory ailments, rashes, and other conditions most likely caused by pollution that locals blame on the landfill, which is located…
Read More…inordinately high number of hate crimes in Russia. The US also claims that Russian authorities downplay hate crimes committed in Russia as minor criminal offenses and thus effectively discourage victims…
Read More…and that his order must be complied with by September 1. Some from the US side, however, have argued that the order will not affect, for instance, locally employed Russians…
Read More…and specialists. In addition to anti-trafficking efforts, the Coalition’s work also promotes efforts to make prostitution illegal in the destination countries and fights all attempts to legalize prostitution in Russia….
Read MoreMichael Doyle defines empires as follows: “Empires are relationships of political control imposed by some political societies over the effective sovereignty of other political societies.”[1] In both Tsarist Russia and…
Read More…to apply their superior firepower on the battlefield more effectively, while simultaneously increasing their own chance of survival. An effective chain of command could have taken advantage of minor battlefield…
Read More…its vulnerable south, and struggles to maintain stable and effective development policies. Armenia’s Domestic Security Issues Food Security: Armenia imports nearly double the amount of basic foodstuffs that it produces,…
Read More…other half in fixed, interest-free installments over 15 years. The average salary is 74,000 rubles ($1,300) per month, or about three times the national average for agricultural workers and enough…
Read More…we will also have to install noise-barriers virtually the entire length of the railway which will also hide the stations from sight.” Read the original Russian here and see lots…
Read More…Internal Affairs in 2002. In 2005 Nogoibayev was named Chief Inspector of the Kyrgyz Security Council, and later that year, took over as Chief of the Kyrgyz Drug Control Agency—simultaneously…
Read More…relations with Russia have always been complicated, even during periods when Yanukovych has been in power. Most recently, Yanukovych has rebuffed efforts to draw Ukraine into formal alliances with Russia…
Read More…at Manas International Airport, a logistical hub for the coalition effort in Afghanistan. It is also Kyrgyzstan’s financial center, home to 21 commercial banks and a large number of industrial…
Read More…wrote an article entitled “Pre-Mongol Rus’: New Sources, New Perspectives?” in which he discounted much of the new scholarship: Radical changes in history do not necessarily produce instant radical changes…
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