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Russian Roads and Rails
…saw massive infrastructure spending in and around those cities in preparation for their global showcasing. The Winter Olympics, for instance, cost an incredible $51 billion. However, only about a sixth…
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Right Cause Searches for Right Path: Part IV
…oil prices, which means reduced income to the federal budget and Russian companies and, as a result, cutbacks on social programs, which could very likely lead to social instability. В…
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Privately Enforced Capitalism: The Rise (and Fall?) of Russia’s Oligarchs
…three forms of control. It helps oligarchs to change public perceptions about themselves and their patron politicians. Therefore, media control is very much a political tool. The most prominent instance…
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Right Cause Searches for Right Path: Part III
…have substantial price differences between, for instance, Moscow State University and Samara Agro-Technical Institute. [4] The World Bank estimates that Russia already spends about 5% of its GDP on health…
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Svyatoslav Vakarchuk: The Ukrainian Parliament’s Rock Star
…about social and political issues. As early as 2008, for instance, he was ranked as one of Ukraine’s 100 most influential people by the Ukrainian magazine Korrespondent. Recently, however, he…
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Russians on Ice: A Brief Overview of Soviet and Russian Hockey
…They are: Aleksandr Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, and Pavel Datsyuk. Aleksandr Ovechkin, for instance, is one of Russia’s best known hockey players, and is currently signed with the Washington…
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Russian MiniLessons: Землетрясения и российской помощи – Earthquakes and Russian Foreign Aid
…or more can cause other природное бедствиеnatural disasters. For instance, цунамиa tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the перемещение большого объема водных массdisplacement of a large volume…
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The State of the Russian Navy: History and Prospectives
…experienced the effects of political instability and economic crises. The Navy has, in many ways, become a liability for society, rather than an asset. The massive buildup of ships created…
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Russian MiniLessons: Акции протеста в России – Protests in Russia
…instance, are simply told that they cannot meet at all. The authorities have often used the excuse that the event would pose a threat to protestors’ health and lives because…
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The Logistics of Social Change and Times of Crisis
…changes – such as changes to social structures, can be seen in the same light. The LGBTQ rights movement in the US, for instance, came after decades of largely successful…
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Youth Crime under Perestroika
…washers on the streets of Moscow actually made 40,000 rubles a day. Vinogradova maintains that these youth seek instant gratification; they want wealth now and “not in some unforeseeable future.”…
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A Sovereign Surge, Not a Soviet Resurgence: The Mutualism of Eurasian Reintegration
…and Ukraine, for instance, signed an agreement on a conceptual framework for an SES called “The Concept of a Single Economic Space” (SES) in 2003. This became yet another failed…
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An Armenian Abroad: Adjusting to Life in St. Petersburg
…two hour train ride from St. Petersburg, for instance, in the ancient city of Novgorod, I hung back to adjust my umbrella and purse while on a tour of the…
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“Against All”: Protest Voting in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
…Kyrgyzstan’s newly adopted constitution. Earlier that same year, the country had experienced a revolution which had several repercussions: the toppling of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev; the installation of an interim government…
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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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An Introduction to Russian Archives and Archives Abroad
…to be rules on how laptops and cell phones can be used, for instance. The archives are led by an archivist who will be in charge of getting you what…
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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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A Guide to Studying Central Asia and the Caucasus
…the US, for instance. However, these markets are developing and still react to shocks in the same way. See the stock exchanges in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, and Azerbaijan….
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