Russia and the problem of Kosovo and Metohija by Simić Predrag

“…Russia has only recently pulled herself out of the years-long Chechnya crisis, and facing similar problems in her 'new neighborhood' (Abkhazia, South Ossetia Transdniestria), is among the countries that might be affected by this precedent. …”
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From Conflict to Peace? Stateness Assessment of the South Caucasus countries at the crossroads of political processes from 2017 to 2022 by Violetta Manukyan

“…With the help of the developed ‘Peace Index’, the article comprehensively assesses the levels of stateness of the three recognized: Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan; and the three non-recognized states of the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia through all four fields of stateness – political, economic, social and security for the years of 2017 to 2022. …”
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12th–19th century craniological remnants from the Central Caucasus region by Pugacheva E.V.

“…This paper presents the analysis of a craniological series from the Republic of Ingushetia (Lezhg, Jegikal villages), South Ossetia (Verhnij Rokk, Verhnej Erman, Srednij Erman villages) and the Chechen Republic (Staraja Sunzha village) conducted using modern morphologic methods. …”
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The Minsk Trap. Moscow’s Perversion of the Conflict Arbitration Process in Ukraine by Nadia Volkova

“…Furthermore, it summarizes peacebuilding efforts in the Russo-Ukrainian war from the perspective of malign legal operations and assess Minsk II to be a trap used to reduce violence in the region on the Kremlin’s terms by creating a “frozen conflict” in the likeness of South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria. This article asserts that the Ukrainian law “On Special Self-Governance Procedure in Separate Regions of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts” is, de facto, the legal implementation of the Minsk Agreement without the accord being referenced by-name in the law. …”
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Engaging Without Recognizing? Western Approaches to the Eurasian De Facto States by P. Kolstø, H. Blakkisrud

“…As the break-up of the Soviet Union produced seven de facto states – four that still exist to this day (Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Transnistria) and three that are now defunct (Chechnya, the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic) – scholars from this region have contributed greatly to the development of this field. …”
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Elections in Georgia in 2016 and the Perspectives of the Russian-Georgian Relations by V. M. Mukhanov, A. Y. Skakov

“…Diametrically opposite positions of Moscow and Tbilisi related to the problem of Abkhazia and South Ossetia do not allow to expect a fundamental change in the political dialogue which has a semi-frozen status.…”
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There is Still a Chance For Russia by Alexey A. Tokarev, Andrej S. Dyogtev, Adlan R. Margoev

“…Even if Russia does not change its position on the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and the West remains the goalpost of Georgia's foreign policy, the ties between the people, cultures, and economies of the two countries will not be severed. …”
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UNESCO Activities for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Territory of Partially Recognized and Unrecognized States by A. A. Kochieva

“…The article uses the case study method, for the analysis the cases of unrecognized states with a rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage — Kosovo, Taiwan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Palestine, Abkhazia and South Ossetia — were selected. In each case, episodes of interaction or attempts of cooperation between the leadership of the above-mentioned countries with UNESCO are considered in a historical perspective. …”
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A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF GEORGIA-2016: THERE IS STILL A CHANCE FOR RUSSIA by A. A. Tokarev, A. S. Dyogtev, A. R. Margoev

“…Even if Russia does not change its position on the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and the West remains the goalpost of Georgia's foreign policy, the ties between the people, cultures, and economies of the two countries will not be severed. …”
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Syncretism of the New Year’s Greetings Genre: Bilingual Ranking and Strategic Intentions by Tatyana Yu. Tameryan, Tatyana G. Rakhmatulaeva

“…The article covers issues related to the New Year’s addresses of Vyacheslav Zelimkhanovich Bitarov, the head of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, and the Anatoly Ilyich Bibilov, President of the Republic of South Ossetia. as the specifics of political communication small form genre. …”
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Cross-Border Cooperation of Post- Soviet De Facto States by S. V. Golunov

“…The article focuses on cross-border cooperation of post-Soviet de facto states (Abkhazia, Donetsk, and Lugansk people’s republics, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and South Ossetia) from the early 1990s until 2021. The author argues that in the most of examined cases cross-border cooperation of post-Soviet de facto states is not particularly effective. …”
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There is Still a Chance For Russia by Alexey A. Tokarev, Andrej S. Dyogtev, Adlan R. Margoev

“…Even if Russia does not change its position on the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and the West remains the goalpost of Georgia's foreign policy, the ties between the people, cultures, and economies of the two countries will not be severed. …”
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Military Aggression of the Russian Federation: the 2008 War in Georgia; Annexation of Crimea and Military Actions in Donbas in 2014; “Suwalki Gap” by Anton Bondarenko

“…It is on the basis of these actions that conflicts have unfolded in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, and Donbas. The military tactics of the Russian Federation are deployed under the same scenario and include a series of measures that can be divided into four stages: creation of a separatist environment, deployment of a conflict under the disguise of civil war, military operation of the Russian Armed Forces, further freezing of the conflict. …”
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The concept единство/иудзинад in the North and South Ossetian political discourses: the comparative aspect by Tameryan Tatiana Yu., Rakhmatulaeva Tatyana G.

“…The article is devoted to revealing cognitive features and ways of verbal representation of the political concept единство/иудзинад, the significance of which is extremely high for the small ethnic group of the North Caucasus (Republic of North Ossetia) and Transcaucasia (Republic of South Ossetia). The scientific novelty of the undertaken research consists in the fact that for the first time a comparative analysis of the concept единство/иудзинад cognitive development vectors in the North and South Ossetian political discourses is carried out in the aspect of ethnospecificity of the conceptual component, issues of a coordinating bilingual representation of South Ossetian political communication are examined, extralinguistic factors are revealed, and the development of ethnic political concepts derived from universal cultural concepts, described the semantic and cognitive features affecting the bilingual embodiment of a new type of concept in the political picture of the world of South Ossetians. …”
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Double Standards of International Recognition: Right vs. Might? by D. V. Isachenko

“…The argument is illustrated through a comparison of the right to self-determination that was granted to peoples in former colonies during the Cold War period and the US-led recognition of Kosovo, followed by Russia’s recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 2008. The article shows that the practice of international recognition is conditional on global responses to particular concerns and circumstances. …”
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Legitimization of statehood in de facto states: A case study of Somaliland by Tomáš Hoch, Kateřina Rudincová

“…Currently, most scholars consider only six entities as de facto states: Somaliland, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria and Northern Cyprus. …”
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Risking Border Instability: the Russian-Estonian Case by P. Jolicoeur, F. Labarre

“…What territories such as Kosovo, Sandjak, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, etc. have in common is that they share a desire for independence from their parent country. …”
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Evolution Of Conflict Studies In The International Security Context In Post-Soviet Russia by Alexander Ivanovich Nikitin

“…Splash of inter-ethnic and separatist conflicts in the first half of the 1990s led to shaping of "practically oriented conflict studies" reflecting political interests of conflict sides in conflicts in Karabakh, Georgia/Abkhazia, Georgia/South Ossetia, Moldova/Transnistria. On the eve of 1990s-2000s formation of theoretical systemic conflict studies as a discipline took place, and this discipline was already quite strongly interfaced with international and foreign conflict studies theory. …”
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A Comparative Study of Secure Outsourced Matrix Multiplication Based on Homomorphic Encryption by Mikhail Babenko, Elena Golimblevskaia, Andrei Tchernykh, Egor Shiriaev, Tatiana Ermakova, Luis Bernardo Pulido-Gaytan, Georgii Valuev, Arutyun Avetisyan, Lana A. Gagloeva

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Predictors of Proactive Coping in Early Adulthood: A Cross-Cultural Study by E.V. Kuftyak, A.A. Bekhter, O.A. Philatova, N.M. Gazzaeva, E.G. Siukaeva

“…The sample from Russia consisted of 97 students (75 women and 22 men) between the ages of 19 and 25 (Mage=20.31 years, SDage=1.80 years), and the sample from South Ossetia consisted of 103 students from Ossetia (57 women and 46 men) between the ages of 19 and 25 (Mage=21.60 years, SDage=1.81 years). …”
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