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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Batkivshchyna: Party Platform
…представительство в советах территориальных общин; – Instate gubernatorial elections and proportional elections for deputies of provincial, regional, and city councils, while retaining the current system of representation local community boards;…
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Chukotka: A US Neighbor at the End of the Earth
…economy. The area was also not immune to corporate crime and corruption during those “wild east” days: in one instance a major tin plant near the town of Pevek was…
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The Communist Platform and View of Post-Soviet History
…of fault. For instance, the program admits that Communist production had focused on quantity rather than quality, leading to a deficit in quality goods and unhappy Soviet consumers. There is…
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Osh & The Fergana Valley: Diversity and Division
…lightly defended by the local peoples. Invasions, including those by the Chinese, would thus bring a certain amount of instability to the prosperity the region’s geographic advantage gave it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bUg9DkDHoU…
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Shifting Memorialization of WWII in Latvia
…Film to Maintain the Nationalist Perspective Meanwhile, the long-standing popular narrative has been bolstered by popular media. The documentary film The Soviet Story, for instance, represents a more nationalistic perspective…
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Snapshot of the Russian Economy
…World Bank Group, only 19% of investors said that taxes adversely affect Russia’s investment climate. 51% named political uncertainty and macroeconomic instability. Contributing to this opinion are Russia’s still half-Soviet,…
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International Relations at the Lenin Library
…up and installed a guard, who was to open the door only for me. Я вернулась в гостиницу “Краснодар” (лучшая в городе) и вместе с перепуганным директором стала осматривать номера…
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Moldovan Politics: Presidential Crises 2009-2018
…Socialists are deputies that defected from the Communists. Although Dodon ran on a decidedly Socialist and pro-Russian platform, promising, for instance, to break Moldova’s trade agreement with the EU in…
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Voice of Ukraine: Campaign Platform in English
…выполнить обещание увеличить добычу собственных энергоресурсов. They plan to invest billions of hryvnia towards insulating houses and installing heat and gas meters. It remains unclear whether this will be done…
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LDPR: Anti-Crisis Platform
…who received a visa from Germany, for instance, can travel to any of the countries within the Schengen Zone on that German-issued visa. It has been very popular with Russians….
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Azerbaijan: A People from the Mists of Time
…power. Reporters without Borders cites common instances of harassment or arbitrary detention for journalists in Azerbaijan. The Aliyevs, Heidar (right) and his son Ilham (left), have ruled Azerbaijan since 1993….
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Lake Baikal in Space and Place: Connections of Local Residents to Natural Resources and the Role they Play in Protecting them
…for instance, is a free response and simply asks respondents to list ways in which degradation of the environment impacts their daily lives. For the purposes of this study, a…
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Five Russia-Related Issues to Watch this Semester
…with time served. To place this in wider context, we should first remember that in no society is freedom of speech absolute. US legislation, for instance, restricts obscene, libelous, or…
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The Communists of Russia: Platform and History
…from 1991-1993. They do not state specifically how instances of property privatized at that time and resold afterwards would be handled – but do propose “isolating” oligarchs until they “restore”…
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An Introduction to Russian Archives
…can be quite particular. There are likely to be rules on how laptops and cell phones can be used, for instance. The archives are led by an archivist who will…
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United Russia: Ruling Party (Part III)
…a substantial share of the company that produces the technology. [15] Many cities in Siberia, for instance, have no paved road connecting them to the outside world. Many have no…
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