…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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…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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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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…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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…we will also have to install noise-barriers virtually the entire length of the railway which will also hide the stations from sight.” Read the original Russian here and see lots…
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…other half in fixed, interest-free installments over 15 years. The average salary is 74,000 rubles ($1,300) per month, or about three times the national average for agricultural workers and enough…
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…minister is more politically powerful. Armenian politics has been rocked by instability since the 2018 “Velvet Revolution,” sparked when Serzh Sargsyan, leader of the then-ruling Republican Party who spearheaded the…
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…energy reinvigorated concert markets and also led to behind-the-scenes debates on what the basis of Soviet music should be; for instance, composer Alexander Davidenko—once a champion of European music innovation—became…
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…and applying them to every instance of operations other than war, is a broad and simplistic transference. For example, the trans-Dniestr region has never required the same application of force…
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…a time of economic instability. A 1998 New York Times report on prostitution in the Russian city of Saratov provides a good example of this. Saratov, an industrial town on…
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…striking major collaborative deals in the past, but Syrian instability always looms ominously, endangering long term plans. Syria’s reserves are dwarfed by many of the surrounding countries, and certainly by…
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