The effect of rapid privatisation on mortality in mono-industrial towns in post-Soviet Russia: a retrospective cohort study by Azarova, A, Irdam, D, Gugushvili, A, Fazekas, M, Scheiring, G, Horvat, P, Stefler, D, Kolesnikova, I, Popov, V, Szelenyi, I, Stuckler, D, Marmot, M, Murphy, M, McKee, M, Bobak, M, King, L

“…</p> <h4>Interpretation</h4> <p>The rapid pace of privatisation was a significant factor in the marked increase in working-age male mortality in post-Soviet Russia. …”

Gender, education and Russia’s tobacco epidemic: A life-course approach by Quirmbach, D, Gerry, C

“…While a number of studies, based on cross-sectional data for Russia, have documented strong increases in female smoking during the past two decades, the analysis of longer-term trends in smoking prevalence is hampered by the lack of representative data for the Soviet era. …”

Origin and evolution of the unique hepatitis C virus circulating recombinant form 2k/1b by Raghwani, J, Thomas, X, Koekkoek, S, Schinkel, J, Molenkamp, R, van de Laar, T, Takebe, Y, Tanaka, Y, Mizokami, M, Rambaut, A, Pybus, O

“…Since its initial identification in St. Petersburg, Russia, the recombinant hepatitis C virus (HCV) 2k/1b has been isolated from several countries throughout Eurasia. …”

Origin and evolution of the unique hepatitis C virus circulating recombinant form 2k/1b. by Raghwani, J, Thomas, X, Koekkoek, S, Schinkel, J, Molenkamp, R, van de Laar, T, Takebe, Y, Tanaka, Y, Mizokami, M, Rambaut, A, Pybus, O

“…Since its initial identification in St. Petersburg, Russia, the recombinant hepatitis C virus (HCV) 2k/1b has been isolated from several countries throughout Eurasia. …”

Dances of death from Paris to Saint Petersburg: suicides in ballet by Buhrle, I

“…<br/>In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which saw the flowering of the court ballet in France and the subsequent emergence of the “ballet d’action”,1 dance was mainly used for joyful divertissements, and it seemed inappropriate to let the protagonists of a ballet kill themselves on stage. The irreligious, unappetizingly violent act of suicide seemed equally at odds with the poetic universe of the Romantic ballet, the well-ordered system of the tsarist regime and the optimistic and pragmatic ideology which prevailed in Soviet Russia. …”