…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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…and that his order must be complied with by September 1. Some from the US side, however, have argued that the order will not affect, for instance, locally employed Russians…
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…works for the School of Russian and Asian Studies, Kozhevnikova also asserted that attacks are most common in major cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg. For instance, she stated…
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…Volokolamsk, for instance, dozens of local children were hospitalized with respiratory ailments, rashes, and other conditions most likely caused by pollution that locals blame on the landfill, which is located…
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…Factory, for instance, in the center of Moscow, has moved from being an under-used industrial structure to a growing shopping, education, and cultural center that has retained the building’s historical…
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…in a time of instability. In 1957, during “de-Stalinization” under Nikita Khrushchev, the Chechens and Ingush were permitted to return to their homelands. Upon arrival, many discovered that ethnic Russians…
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…Petersburg following the November Uprising. The library was re-instated as the State Library in 1834 until 1871 when it became the Tsar’s University Library. When the Russians left Warsaw in…
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…and new leadership installed. In 1997, the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet was divided between Russia and Ukraine. Russia additionally recognized Ukraine’s legitimacy to all land in Crimea (including Sevastopol)…
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…and even questions over franchising rights, which are often granted by geographic area, must also be addressed. McDonald’s locations in Crimea, for instance, have closed as the franchisee for Russia…
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