The future of gas infrastructures in Eurasia by Klaassen, G, McDonald, A, Zhao, J

“…The comparison indicates that high gas consumption in a scenario need not imply high gas trade. For the former Soviet Union, a robust strategy across all six scenarios is to implement existing plans and proposals for expanding gas export capacity. …”

Schools and religions: the law and the courts – Costa Rica, England, France, Italy, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey by Fancourt, N

“…At a national level, constitutions can vary across a spectrum, from complete theocracy, such as contemporary Iran, to aggressive anti-religious atheism, notably in Communist states, such as the former Soviet Union or Maoist China. In between, there are more moderated forms of secularity, such as the paradigmatic case of laïcité in France, to an established religion, such as Greece. …”

Thyroid Cancer After Chernobyl: Re-Evaluation Needed by Sergei JARGIN

“…Prior to the accident, the registered incidence of pediatric thyroid carcinoma was lower in the former Soviet Union than in other industrialized countries i.e. there were undiagnosed cases in the population. …”
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Influences of deglaciation on the river run-off in Central Asia by G. E. Glazyrin

“…The complete inventory of glaciers was performed in former Soviet Union in the middle of last century. Airphoto images were used as a basis for our calculations. …”
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Retrospective Analysis of the Equine Influenza Virus A/Equine/Kirgizia/26/1974 (H7N7) Isolated in Central Asia by Kobey Karamendin, Aidyn Kydyrmanov, Marat Sayatov, Vitaliy Strochkov, Nurlan Sandybayev, Kulaysan Sultankulova

“…A retrospective phylogenetic characterization of the hemagglutinin, neuraminidase and nucleoprotein genes of equine influenza virus A/equine/Kirgizia/26/1974 (H7N7) which caused an outbreak in Kirgizia (a former Soviet Union republic, now Kyrgyzstan) in 1977 was conducted. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of the Transformation of the Other’s Image: 2018-2022 by Rastyam T. Aliev, Olesya S. Yakushenkova

“…In particular, today we can distinguish several big clusters of the Other’s models holding common structural markers: some models are united according to their “food” aspect (Far Eastern cluster), others according to their appearance and sexual aspects (cluster of the former Soviet Union ethnic groups). However, within these clusters, models also share structural markers, so that they can be combined into subgroups based on one feature or another.…”
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Transitioning to community-based mental health service delivery: opportunities for Ukraine by Eleanor Quirke, Orest Suvalo, Oleksii Sukhovii, York Zöllner

“…Methodology: A systematic literature review was undertaken to identify organizational and financing features that have been successfully used to enable and incentivize the delivery of community-based mental health services in Central or Eastern European and/or former Soviet Union countries. Results: There was limited literature on the organizational and financing features that facilitate the delivery of community-based care. …”
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Professional Preferences of Translators/Interpreters-to-be: Survey Results by Elena Makeeva, Marina Kulinich, Ekaterina Savitskaya

“…In the former Soviet Union translators/interpreters-to-be were trained only in a few field-specific linguistic (and in a couple of military institutions. …”
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National minorities political rights in the context of decentralization of power in the Eastern European countries by Halyna Kuzub

“…In some European countries situation becomes even more complicated because of assimilation policy which was provided by the former Soviet Union. Decentralization is transferring of authorities to the local levels what is other serious accelerator of the questions of political minorities rights. …”
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Geopolitical and geoeconomic factors in India’s Central Asia policy by Pradhan Ramakrushna, M. Zhiyenbayev, Sachita Nanda Sa ᅠ

“… The dissolution of the Soviet Union towards the end of 1991 has led to the emergence of five Central Asian Republics (CARs) of the former Soviet Union, namely, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, as independent countries. …”
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Making sense of Turkish foreign policy: what can international relations theory offer? by Umut Uzer

“…While realist variables are significant for explicating major events of Republican Turkey, such as its alignment with the United States after World War II, Turkey’s policy decisions towards Cyprus and the Turkic republics of the former Soviet Union cannot be explained by purely materialist factors. …”
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Eurasian Economic Union: Achievement and Сhallenges of Integration by L.  M.  Grigor’ev, V. V. Brilliantova, V. A. Pavlyushina

“…First, it is the only existing and developing integration association in the former Soviet Union. Second, this association is valid in the neighbourhood of the European Union. …”
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The July 2015 Debris flow in Barsem, Western Pamir (GBAO) Tajikistan: Description and causes by Zafar Avzalshoev, Uchimura Taro

“…Tajikistan is a landlocked country in the Central Asia republics of the former Soviet Union. Tajikistan is prone to many natural disasters. …”
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Multilevel comparison of large urban systems by Denise Pumain, Elfie Swerts, Clémentine Cottineau, Céline Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, Cosmo Antonio Ignazzi, Anne Bretagnolle, François Delisle, Robin Cura, Liliane Lizzi, Solène Baffi

“…For the first time the systems of cities in seven countries or regions among the largest in the world (China, India, Brazil, Europe, the Former Soviet Union (FSU), the United States and South Africa) are made comparable through the building of spatio-temporal standardised statistical databases. …”
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Borders and Butterflies in José Manuel Prieto’s Livadia/Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire by Ilka Kressner

“…The geographical borders that take center stage are those of the former Soviet Union of the 1990s and adjacent Northern and Eastern countries as well as the Black Sea. …”
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Activity of Institute of Book Chamber and its Value in Preservation of Cultural Heritage in XX - the beginning of the XXI century by Gennadii Nikolaevich Khrapkov

“…This article is devoted to the analysis and characterization of the structure and activities of the Institute book chamber in the field of cultural heritage preservation of the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russian Federation in the period of XX - beginning of XXI centuries. …”
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The European Union and Turkey: a review of their commonalities and disparities using cluster analysis by Turkay Yildiz

“…It also plays an influential role in a geography that stretches across the former Soviet Union nations. In this paper, the path of Turkey’s accession issues is reviewed and the direction of its economy based on the measure of GDP per capita is forecast using an autoregressive integrated moving average model. …”
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Interculturality in the Modern Russian Linguistic Landscape

“…Yet the cultures of the former Soviet Union, as well as the cultures of linguistic minorities (other languages besides Russian) were underrepresented, even in the national republics. …”
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Mesto stran Baltii v geograficheskih segmentah krupnejshih TNK Evropy by Kuznetsov A.

“…However, in some cases the Baltic States are clustered u nder “home market” (as is the case with some Swedish companies), “former Soviet Union” (some Russian companies), “Northern Europe and Central Asia,” and even “Middle East and Eastern Europe." …”
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Klavdij Sluban, immagini in transito by Silvia Mattei

“…Three weeks on a cargo ship heading towards Central America, one week on the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Beijing, three days on the Trans-Tibetan railway form Beijing to Lhasa; all around the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, with countless detours across the Balkan region as well as some photographic “parenthesis” in juvenile correctional centres in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, and France. Klavdij Sluban is never in a hurry, he is not a reporter looking for events, rather, a traveller-photographer who abandons himself to the slow pace of creation through discovery. …”
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