Putin's Russia: How It Rose, How It Is Maintained, and How

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Some analysts “said they believed that gas reserves in many countries could increase over the next two decades, comparable with the 40 percent increase in the United States in recent years”. 32 Most strategically important for Gazprom and the Russian economy are the plans to develop shale gas production in Europe, especially in Hungary 33 and Poland 34, i.e. in Eastern Europe where European dependency on Russian gas is mostly concentrated 35: “… energy analysts are already predicting that shale could reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas” 36.

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Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia?

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The Brezhnev era saw rapid urbanization and the USSR was marked by universal signs of an industrialized society: shrinking low-status jobs and a sharp increase in high-status ones. That there will be declarations, treaties and summits, and very little about actual substance and implementation. "That's more likely. It was when he returned home after his release that he told his family he saw no future in Georgia and was going abroad, his father said.

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Russian Politics and Society

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Until the 20th century, czarist Russia demographically resembled an underdeveloped country, with high birthrates (45 per 1,000), high death rates (about 30 per 1,000), and high infant mortality rates (more than 100 per 1,000). War Communism, as an ideology, did not possess popular appeal; since it included mass terror and requisitions, it quickly antagonized the population within its reach (Lazarski, 1992). A musical underground (magnitizdat) also arose, where poetic and satirical musicians like Bulat Okudzhava and Vladimir Vysotskiy gained black market fame playing their self played songs.

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The End of Empire? Comparative Perspectives on the Soviet

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Instituted in 1921, it let peasants sell produce on an open market and permitted small enterprises (q.v.) to be privately owned and operated. Sean Guillory describes the hidden pain and agony of the young Komsomol (members of the Soviet youth organization) members who took part in the Russian civil war. Contrary to what a number of western historians have for years suggested, Soviet terror and the Gulag camp system did not begin with Stalin. When it comes to the crucial struggle for survival, freedom, peace, and justice, they are on their own.

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Loans and Legitimacy: The Evolution of Soviet-American

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I thought the house was going to fall down. “For those of you who have never experienced an earthquake, one of the worst aspects is the sound.” February 2, 2010, almost 18 years after beginning the project, Dennis Prager finished teaching the Torah. Nonetheless, in the charged atmosphere following the intense armed clashes in March, when hundreds were killed and wounded on both sides, there have been incidents of non-combat-related attacks against Russians, some mere harassment and some considerably more violent.

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New Trends in Indo-Russian Relations

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R.’s southern republics away in to a Muslim empire, as some Soviet leaders feared, or at least claimed to. Finally, Russia is focusing significant attention and funds on developing connections to the growing East Asian energy markets, diversifying its export portfolio should challenges in the European market continue intensifying. It was under this project that the Kremlin offered its support to Viktor Yanukovych during the 2004 presidential campaign, believing the real objective of the Orange Revolution to be the derailment of the CES.

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Detecting the Bomb: The Role of Seismology in the Cold War

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I wasn't even planning to become a rabbi. I gave my final speech on the development of the eraser. Of course, the ultimate result in terms of personal behavior was not dissimilar to that of those who preferred their sex without any poetry. A 36-year-old woman in Moldova’s capital of Chisinau said she went to seven health-care facilities before she found one that would remove her tonsils without a bribe. His grades improved substantially, he was elected president of his senior class and was editor of the yearbook.

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The Age of Anxiety: Security and Politics in Soviet and

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Bright Lights Film Journal, vol. 30, pp. (no pagination), Oct 2000 Director, János Szász. Many women who went into politics during chaotic but hopeful democratic experiments of the 1990s have since quit public life. Recovery of lost territories began in the mid-seventeenth century, when the Khmelnitsky Uprising in Ukraine against Polish rule brought about the Treaty of Pereyaslav. And morally likening the two is in no way meant to lessen the horror of rape; it is meant only to heighten awareness of the horror of intentionally destroying the name of an innocent person.

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Eurasianism and the European Far Right: Reshaping the

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It was an Albanian client who took pity on Natasha and bought her from her owner for 5,000 Deutsche Marks, about $2,500. “Yes, I’m back in Moldova, but it’s difficult,” she said in a village three hours north of the Moldovan capital, Chisinau. “We do not have money to buy bread. There is no information available on the current size of the register. Most significantly, it is through this region that major energy pipelines pass from Russia, through Ukraine, and into the EU.

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Revolutionary Law and Order

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It not only fulfilled the generic requirements of a presidential inaugural address, but it did so in language that invited deep reflection on the ideas it articulated. [44] Kennedy's speech was no doubt a fine example of the inaugural genre. Instead, they supported "White House" (Yeltsin's office), then the symbolic seat of Russian sovereignty. Now you know the real reason why the Obama administration has not released pictures of Osama Bin Laden’s corpse.

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