Karabakh: Youth, War Zones, and Unrecognized Borders
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Symmetry in State Surveillance: The US and Russia
…telecommunication operators to install hardware that allowed the FSB, Russia’s agency that is focused on domestic national security, to monitor user data. In 1998, SORM was expanded to require Russian…
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Ordinary Men? Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied Mogilevskaya Oblast’
…were forced to work. In November 1941, for instance, as hunger and cold ravaged the ranks of Soviet POWs at a prison camp, an officer came and offered the prisoners…
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Who’s Who in Ukrainian Politics
…instance, claimed that full integration with Europe would cost more than half a trillion dollars in upgrades to economic infrastructure and government reforms. These divisions and challenges have boiled over…
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Contemporary Russian-Serbian Relations: Interviews with Youth from Political Parties in Belgrade and Vojvodina
…Aleksandar says. Almost all of my respondents, both from the left and the right, agreed that Russia believed Serbia to have geostrategic importance. For instance, Teodor from the Progressive Party:…
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Maxim Oreshkin: Young Technocrat and Minister of Economic Development
…has been significant. He is seen as quite free market oriented. In 2016, for instance, stated that “the only place where we can find the accelerator pedal, is outside the…
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US-Russian Energy Security in the Caucasus: The Prospects for Conflict in the National Interest
…heart of a zone of instability that Zbigniew Brzezinski has referred to as the “Eurasian Balkans” (1989, 123). The area “threatens to become a cauldron of ethnic conflict and great…
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Russia’s Forest Sector and International Trade in Forest Products: Export Taxes on Roundwood, Priority Investment Projects, and WTO Accession
Wood, well made into buildings and furniture and well cared for, can last hundreds of years, but it is now routinely manufactured into products that last us twenty-five years. We…
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Poland: A Developing Central European Power
…and 1795. Poland was wiped off the map for 123 years and its population split between very different worlds. Austria, for instance, granted considerable autonomy and saw relative stability. Russia,…
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Vladimir Putin’s Annual News Conference in Side-by-Side Translation – Part II
The following is the official video, transcript, and official translation for Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference as given on December 14, 2017. Note that the text is as given on…
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Four Reformers in Russia’s Shock Therapy
…Given the different historical legacies and the varying levels of economic development, some of these comparisons may be unmerited (see Figure 2). Russia, for instance, was by far the largest,…
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A Fair and Just Russia: Part II
…on this issue will be discussed in the next installment. <<<Back to Part 1 КУРС НА КАРДИНАЛЬНОЕ ОБНОВЛЕНИЕ СТРАНЫ A COURSE FOR THE ESSENTIAL REBIRTH OF THE NATION Справедливость, свобода,…
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Environmental Policy and Politics of Lake Baikal: A review of physical, psychological, and political contexts
…a year, I have come across numerous instances of passionate would-be civic leaders being confused and discouraged by the complexities of governmental and non-governmental bureaucracy. Fishbein and Ajzen’s theory of…
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Resolving the Crimean Crisis: What will Russia have on the table?
…the nationalists form one of the major threats to the government if their loyalty to the state is compromised. There are many instances to be found online of some of…
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A Traveler’s Guide to Russian Banks
…instability and a general distrust of banks by the population. Many Russians famously preferred to keep their savings at home in dollars or euros. To rectify this situation, and allow…
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Russia’s Arctic Development: Problems and Priorities
…such as Zvezda, for instance, are projected to require over 300,000 tons of rolled steel per year, representing a potential boon for domestic metal producers. Russian President Vladimir Putin has…
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Nagorno-Karabakh: The Volatile Core of the South Caucasus
…the present day, dozens of soldiers are killed along the line of contact each year. Rhetoric on both sides remained fiercely militaristic, with Azerbaijan, for instance, reacting to plans to…
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Sergei Sobyanin
…little public input. In addition, some critics accuse him of corruption and of using public funds on public art installations and entertainment venues instead of on additional spending for education…
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Recurring Themes in the Kyrgyz Revolutions
…country like Kyrgyzstan; when there is any incident, members of both ethnicities tend to congregate wherever the unrest is occurring to forcefully support members of their own ethnicity. For instance,…
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Turkmenistan: A Rich, Desert Land
…In 1881, for instance, General Mikhail Skobelev led Russian forces in a 23-day siege of the Goek Tepe fortress. About 14,000 Turkmen civilians and soldiers were killed, many while fleeing…
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