Latin America and the Caribbean Meet the Post-Soviet World: Can Pro Forma Diplomacy Evolve? by W. A. Sanchez

“…The 33 countries that constitute Latin America and the Caribbean and the 11 countries of the former Soviet Union (not counting the Russian Federation and the three Baltic nations) conform 44 states which are, with a few exceptions, on the periphery of global geopolitical aff airs, with limited international infl uence or at the mercy of confl icts that have disrupted their internal balance and international image in the past decade. …”
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Analysis of the Water Footprint of Central and Eastern Europe Countries by Damian Panasiuk, Petro Skrypchuk, Barbara Kucharska, Olena Suduk

“…It is the highest for the countries of the former Soviet Union, that is Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania, and half as low for Poland and Slovakia. …”
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Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever by Sümeyye KAZANCIOĞLU, Esragül AKINCI, Hürrem BODUR

“…Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever was first described in 1944 in the former Soviet Union on the peninsula of Crimea. In Turkey, the disease was recognized in 2002 and the first laboratory-confirmed case was reported in 2003. …”
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Land-Use/-Cover Changes and Their Effect on Soil Erosion and River Suspended Sediment Load in Different Landscape Zones of European Russia during 1970–2017 by Artyom V. Gusarov

“…Based on official statistics from the Russian Federation and the former Soviet Union, this study showed that after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a steady downward trend in cultivated land throughout the study region. …”
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Invasion of the raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides in Europe: History of colonization, features behind its success, and threats to native fauna by Kaarina KAUHALA, Rafal KOWALCZYK

“…The raccoon dog quickly colonized new areas after being introduced to the European part of the former Soviet Union. Today it is widespread in Northern and Eastern Europe and is still spreading in Central Europe. …”
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Still Standing: Cooperative strategies for the renovation of Soviet mass housing by Hoyle, Benjamin, Levi, Eytan

“…Mass housing across the former Soviet Union is in varying states of disrepair, having lasted much longer than it was expected to when built in the 1960s. …”
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The agency of smaller powers: Belarus in international relations by Hansbury, P

“…This thesis considers this problem in respect of the new states that emerged from the former Soviet Union at the end of 1991, with particular focus on Belarus which is a least-likely case for smaller power agency given its alliance with Russia and few institutional memberships. …”

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

“…The timescale and the geographic spread of 2k/1b suggest that it originated in the former Soviet Union at about the time that the world's first centralized national blood transfusion and storage service was being established. …”

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

“…The timescale and the geographic spread of 2k/1b suggest that it originated in the former Soviet Union at about the time that the world's first centralized national blood transfusion and storage service was being established. …”

At What Cost? A Political Economy Approach to Transitional Justice by Payne, L, Olsen, T, Reiter, A

“…This approach has led some to explain the differencein levels of commitment to transitional justice in countries transitioning from Com-munism in the former Soviet Union and those transitioning from authoritarian rulein Latin America. …”

The Development of the US National Missile Defense and its Impact on the International Security by J. Yu. Parshkova

“…The United States and the former Soviet Union made huge efforts to reduce and limit offensive arms. …”
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Competitiveness of the Russian Federation in the Global Tourism Market by Slavomir Bucher

“…The competitiveness ranking 2015 for the tourism infrastructure, prioritization of travel and tourism, and national tourism perceptions suggest that Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia rank the top, relative to other former Soviet Union countries in the sample. Since these countries outperform in a tourism infrastructure, it is likely that they continuously try to improve their physical and financial infrastructure for tourists in the country. …”
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RUSSIAN FAMILY LAW LEGISLATION: REVOLUTION, COUNTER-REVOLUTION, EVOLUTION by NADEZHDA TARUSINA, ELENA ISAEVA

“…The article traces the influence of  Soviet family law on the content of similar legislation elsewhere in Eastern Europe and the  countries of the former Soviet Union, where there are various levels of legal sovereignty. …”
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Would Kazakh Citizens Support a Milk Co-Operative System? by Samal Kaliyeva, Francisco Jose Areal, Yiorgos Gadanakis

“…The role of individuals’ psychological aspects, based on the reasoned action approach, along with individuals’ views on the country’s past regime (i.e., to the former Soviet Union), their awareness about the governmental policy, their sociodemographic characteristics, and household location on their willingness to pay (WTP) for the policy is analysed using an interval regression model. …”
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State policy of the USSR in the field of education during the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945 by Elbuzdukaeva Tamara, Shmatko Olga, Gaytamirova Sotsita

“…Unfortunately, local wars are being waged on the territory of the former Soviet Union, having a negative impact on the education system. …”
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Aleksandr A. Semenov (1873-1958): Colonial Power, Orientalism and Soviet Nation-building by Battis, M

“…It does so through an examination of Semenov’s career, scholarship and personal networks, and on the basis of his personal archive in Tajikistan’s Academy of Sciences, which has not been researched in any systematic way since the early 1970s, and in which no scholar from outside the former Soviet Union has ever worked.</p>…”

CONSTITUTIONAL TRANSPLANT IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOVIET MODEL AND CHALLENGES IN THE GLOBALIZATION ERA by J. Fan

“…Then, because China and the Former Soviet Union shared the Marxism-Leninism, China’s 1954 Constitution borrowed almost all the constitutional articles to various extents from the 1936 Soviet constitutional code. …”
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Prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors in migrants participating in the PEP family heart study, Nuremberg by Gerda-Maria Haas, Klaus-Georg Parhofer, Peter Schwandt

“…Methods: In this community-based cross-sectional study, anthropometric data, blood pressure and lipid profiles of migrants (480 children, 363 adults) from Turkey (TUR), Eastern Europe (EEU) and German immigrants from the former Soviet Union (GFSU) were compared with age and gender adjusted German (GER) resi-dents (3253 children, 2491 adults). …”
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Spatial dynamics and changes in northeastern Romania's orchard landscape over the last century by Vasile JITARIU, Pavel ICHIM, Marina IOSUB

“…Globally, land use/ land cover has suffered significant changes during the last years, some countries being more negatively impacted than others and a good example are countries from the former Soviet Union, including Romania. This paper aims to highlight the evolution of the orchard landscape in a region with a centuries-long tradition in this field in North-East Romania. …”
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TÜRKİYE’NİN GÜNEYDOĞUSUNDA NÜFUSUN ZORUNLU YERİNDEN OLUŞU: SÜREÇLER ve MEKÂNSAL ÖRÜNTÜ by M. Murat Yüceşahin, E. Murat Özgür

“…Forced migrations in Turkey are not caused by conflicts between different ethnic groups or political dissolution as in the former Soviet Union or Yugoslavia. Forced migrations caused by the conflicts in south-eastern Turkey between Turkish security forces and rebel groups intensified internal migration to the west, which had already been going on for a long time in the eastern and south-eastern regions. …”
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