Kazakhstan’s Capitals: Two Cities of History and Modern Business
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4 Cities in Uzbekistan: One of the World’s Ancient Civilizations
…Tamerlane, for instance. Tamerlane made it his capital and named it the “Center of the Universe.” Here was a mix of those from Iran, India, Persia, and Mongolia, and being…
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Blind in Siberia
…warm up enough to melt the frozen ground cover. My cane slipped first, and instantly after, my feet in their knee-high boots shot out from under me. I cannot remember…
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Vladimir Putin’s 2019 News Conference in Side-by-Side Translation (Pt. 2)
The following is the second of a two part resource presenting the official video, transcript, and official translation for Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference as given on December 19, 2019….
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Russia’s Second De-Urbanization
…Once, a classic Russian sociologist Pitirim Sorokin proposed a term for this phenomenon: rural-urban continuum. For instance, according to statistics, in Russia there are 150 thousand rural settlements. However, 30…
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Personal Reflections on Russian Offshore Outsourcing
Three of my four grandparents emigrated from Minsk to New York City more than 100 years ago. So I guess that I was destined to reconnect with Russia at some…
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Guide to Russia’s Administrative and Geographic Divisions
…education. Although this patchwork of archaic administrative terms may seem unusual to Americans, similar systems once existed across much of Europe. In Great Britain, for instance, the king rules over…
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Climate Fest in Bishkek
…who was in charge of helping to organize and run the event, an Instagram account called movegreen.kg published several posts advertising the event in the weeks leading up to it….
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From the Silk Road to Chevron: The Geopolitics of Oil Pipelines in Central Asia
Kazakhstan has received much press recently as a result of the success of the comic film Borat. However, that movie got everything wrong in its depiction of Kazakhstan, with the…
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Putin’s National Address on Pension Reform
…bills, lower payments for major repairs of buildings and the installation of gas supply, buying medicines at a reduced price and other things. I certainly support this approach. I believe…
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Catholic and Protestant: Two Religious Periodicals and US-Soviet Relations, 1930-1950
…that the Catholic World contained a relevant editorial, for instance, it was usually concerned with some aspect of the state of religion and religious persecution under Stalin. At the start…
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Why This Cold Peace?
…was even more amazed at the generosity of spirit that had been expressed by both the host and the viewers calling in. Very briefly, for instance, I was asked what…
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The Rise of Economic Nationalism under Globalization and the Case of Post-Communist Russia
…lead to fragmentation and eventual political and, hence, economic instability within a state. How this will play out in Russia and other countries where economic nationalist policies are being implemented…
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Russian MiniLessons: Ссориться по-русски – Fighting in Russian
…instance, the Caucasus region of Russia was very recently a war zone and is still widely seen as in conflict. Those who have had relatives, family members, or clan members…
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Empire, Nationalities, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
…identity. For instance, most Roman emperors were not ethnic Italians, as Latin high culture was considered the actual determinate of Roman identity and had precedence over ethnic origin. [8] Hans…
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The ‘Norman Problem’ in Historiography: Nationalism and the Origins of Russia
…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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Layers of Identity: Self-identity in U.S. child immigrants from the former Soviet Union
…the quickness of response when associating given variables. For instance, if one is quicker at pairing words related to oneself to symbols of Mexican culture than to American culture, it…
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Georgian Crossroads: From Mythic Origins to Modern State
…Colchis, what is now modern-day Georgia. The “wolf” association is likely the strongest, however, and was known in ancient Georgia at the time. For instance, the founder of Tbilisi was…
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Ukraine’s Party of Regions: Part 1
…had been jarred by the perceived political instability (although growth did continue). Some can also be attributed to the fact that much of Yushchenko’s support came from his endorsement by…
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Who’s Who in Kyrgyz Politics
…controversial personal appointments who then made their own appointments. This led to corruption and nepotism. In Jalal-Abad, for instance, the new provincial governor appointed family members to the most influential…
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