Uzbekistan: A GeoHistory Study Guide
…gained visits to many western and eastern countries, including the US. Reforms have been increasing difficult to implement. For instance, although the state no longer presses for help in the…
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Historical Context and Modern Demands: Reinterpreting Linguistic Human Rights in Ukraine
…to instate Russian (among other languages commonly spoken in Ukraine) as an official “regional language” in areas where it is spoken by more than 10% of the population, has experienced…
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Vladimir Putin’s Annual News Conference in Side-by-Side Translation
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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“Medicine Standing on its Head”: Snezhnevsky, Sluggish Schizophrenia and Soviet Political Abuse of Psychiatry
…of his violent instability, despite video footage contradicting such statements, Russian officials seemed to be politicizing Kosenko’s mental illness. A further series of articles published in 2011 by The Moscow…
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Kyrgyzstan Prepares to Join the Eurasian Economic Union, Amid Concerns and Questions about the Future
…weak and easily-influenced player among EEU nations. There is concern that growing economic dependence on Russia will jeopardize Kyrgyzstan’s sovereignty, and, the opposition argues, increase instances of copycat legislation like…
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AI in Publishing and Education
…to address the issue as a specific character, such as a cultural anthropologist or military historian, for instance. You might ask the AI to develop weak but interesting claims further,…
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Sergei Udaltsov and The Left Front
…unified decisions on issues such as workforce and resource allocation, for instance, without having to first bring several territorial bureacracies into agreement. In 2008, Udaltsov joined the 50-seat leadership council…
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Alexei Navalny: Mayoral Platform for 2013
…the principle “the bigger and more expensive, the better.” We need to sort out certain bottlenecks (increase the capacity for cross-traffic, for instance, where wide roads are crossed by narrow…
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A Guide to Studying Central Asia and the Caucasus
…offered both in print and online. SOVA: A Russian-language online news platform with updates shared on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and YouTube. Their YouTube channel features investigative reports, historical insights, personal…
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Book Review of The Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920-1940
…proposed annexing to Iran. … [At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the Iranian delegation] went through intensive negotiations with Musavat party leaders amid the increasing instability and chaos in…
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Volodymyr Zelensky: Comedy and Politics
…get his message out. It also stood apart from other campaigns by remaining mostly positive and conciliatorily moderate. Zelensky argued that, for instance, it was wrong to campaign just to…
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12 Things You Should Know about the Agreement in Ukraine
…part of the official opposition, they are now represented in Ukraine’s government. For instance, Dmytro Yarosh, the group’s leader, is now serving on Ukraine’s Security Council. The Separatists are Stronger….
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History and Culture: Researching Russia and Eurasia
…Domain Review compiles material whose copyright has expired. The BBC Archives have interesting information about the Cambridge Spies and coverage of the USSR, for instance. Librarium presents scanned copies of…
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Holodomor Remembrance and Ukrainian Nation Building
The memory of the Holodomor has become integral to modern Ukrainian identity. Having lived through that tragic and horrible event as a nation, it is now part of the national…
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A Vision and a Guiding Light in an Age of Disunity: A review of Theodosius’ contributions to Vladimir I’s vision
…events are the culmination of several smaller sacrifices, ideas, and actions. For instance, would Galileo have ended up in the annals of history if not for the work done by…
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Choose or Lose: The Best Campaign Videos in Russian Politics
…first plays a patriotic song while showing fierce fights in the Duma (at one instance, a swastika is even shown on someone’s notebook). The second video was done by a…
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Igor Sechin
…striking deals, for instance, with Venezuela’s state oil company for a 40 percent stake in an oil production venture in the Orinoco river basin. Rosneft’s buying spree was also partly…
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The Russian Far East: Gateway to Asia
…cars and electronics. The Russian government is prioritizing trade relations with the Far Eastern nations and has been successful in scoring several valuable partnerships. South Korea and Russia, for instance,…
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The Armenian Colonies in Ukraine: Conflict, Cooperation, and Assimilation
The early modern period from 1500-1800 has been focused upon in recent scholarship as a unique era separated from the medieval and the modern. This separation is based not merely…
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Moldovan Politics: Voronin and the Communists
…Russia. Although he had some success, his objectives were often at cross purposes. For instance, he suggested that Moldova might both the EU and the Russia-led Eurasian Union and thus…
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