…a group on a macro-scale and is thus necessary to analyze instances of widespread religious conflict. Religious institutions – in this case, places of worship, educational centers, state-supported religious administrations,…
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…installed during the 17th and 18th centuries respectively, mass installations of water pipelines throughout the rest of Russia did not begin until the 19th and 20th centuries. In Irkutsk, a…
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…a far-right politician remarking that Hitler didn’t finish off the Jews (Golinkin, 2019). The Israeli state’s recent report on antisemitism noted that Ukraine had more instances of anti-Semitic activity than…
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…for instance, a recent survey showed about 100,000 communal apartments still in use. St. Petersburg has around 78,000. In many larger cities, former communal apartments have become a favorite purchase…
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…are more susceptible to crime. For instance, here if you lose your phone or you drop some money on the ground, someone will call out to you and make you…
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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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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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…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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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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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