Performing Identities and Negotiating Memory in Contested Spaces: Ukrainian Folk Songs in Contemporary Russian War Films by Adrienne M. Harris

“…Contextualizing her analysis in scholarship related to collective memory, nationality, nostalgia, and intertextuality, she argues that the directors use the films to take two different approaches: symbolically reuniting the Soviet Union in film one and appropriating a Ukrainian song to underscore suffering caused by Ukrainian and German ‘fascists’ in the other.…”
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Cumulative material flows provide indicators to quantify the ecological debt by Andreas Mayer, Willi Haas

“…During this phase, fossil fuel-based industrialization triggered an unprecedented growth in material consumption, mainly in the wealthy world regions of Europe, Australia, North America, and partly in the countries of the former Soviet Union, while low resource consumption persists in other regions. …”
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Balancing Between Solidarity and Responsibility: Estonia in the EU Refugee Crisis by Veebel Viljar

“…The development of Estonian refugee policy will be analysed, from regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present day. The article will also focus on security risks that might occur due to the pressure from the EU on the member states to impose decisions that do not have broad support at the national level.…”
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Flying clubs of the USSR on the eve of the Great Patriotic War: according to the materials of Donbass by Elmira Aliyeva

“…This article is devoted to the problem of the defense - mass work in the Soviet Union before The Great Patriotic War, including its own aspect - civilian aviation training through the network of flying clubs. …”
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Cuba’s place among the US foreign policy interests (XIX – middle of the XX centuries) by Ekaterina Kasatkina

“…After the victory of the revolution in 1959 and the beginning of the Soviet-Cuban cooperation, the U.S. had regarded Cuba through the confrontation with the Soviet Union in the framework of the Cold War. Cuba had taken one of the top places among the U.S. national interests.…”
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INVESTING IN THE INTELLECTUAL POTENTIAL OF SOCIETY: THE EXAMPLE OF KAZAKHSTAN by Sagiyeva R.K., Zhuparova A.S.

“…This article analyzes the main factors affecting the development of the intellectual potential of society since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The main purpose of the study is to analyze and study the main factors affecting the growth of investment in the intellectual capital of the society. …”
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ENTREVISTA CON EUGENIA ETKINA by OLGA LUCIA CASTIBLANCO ABRIL

“…Eugenia Etkina, born in Moscow, Soviet Union. Professor in the Physics Department, at Rutgers University, USA. …”
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Taliban insurgency and transnational organized crime nexus by Mohammad Ayub Mirdad

“…Afghanistan has been demolished by more than three decades of the ongoing war since the war against the Soviet Union started in 1979. The Afghanistan-Pakistan region provides a geographically secure location and a space of opportunity for organized crime and terrorist groups. …”
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Dramatic Social Change: A Social Psychological Perspective by Roxane de la Sablonnière, Laura French Bourgeois, Mariam Najih

“…Dramatic social changes, such as the breakdown of the Soviet Union and the ongoing “Arab Spring” uprisings, are present throughout history and continue to affect millions of people every day. …”
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Prise en otage des victimes et usages publics de l’histoire : le cas de la Résistance italienne by Stéfanie Prezioso

“…Certain currents aim to question the foundations of the antifascist engagement in the 1940s in terms of, on one hand, the identity and political recognition that antifascism acquired in the post-war Italian governments, and on the other, a more general analysis which amounts to the rapport maintained by “organised” antifascism with the Soviet Union. As recently stated by Pier Giorgio Zunino, not without annoyance, “antifascism… here is the infamy of Italian history”. …”
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The Position of the United States from Britain in the discussions of British Evacuation from Egypt (1946-1952) by ميسون عباس حسين

“…The United States wanted to keep its image in the region to apply its future political projects including Eisenhower Project, which intended to take the position of British in the region by the United States to get more air bases and strategic locations to be as the second line of the U.S. bases in Turkey near the borders of the Soviet Union. Egypt refused the idea because it realized that the project were found to serve the goals of Western countries in the Arab world as it involved political constraints which make Egypt linked to the United States. …”
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Youth, Place Identities and Social Space Structures in Post-Soviet Armenian Rural Communities by Harutyun Vermishyan

“… After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the “importation” of democratic and liberal ideologies in line with fundamental social and political transformations led to the change in the discourse on the Armenian rural lifestyle, in the place identities and in self-governing systems. …”
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COMMUNIZATION AND DE-COMMUNIZATION OF TOPONYMS IN KAMYANETS’-PODIL’S’KY by Ihor Starenkyi, Yaryna Zaishliuk

“…Since the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loss of dominance of the Communist Party ideology, starts the reverse process – decommunization. …”
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Piotr Piotrowski <i>Awangarda w cieniu Jałty. Sztuka w Europie środkowo-wschodniej w latach 1945–89</i> (Avant-Garde in the Shadow of Yalta. Art in East-Central Europe, 1945–1989)... by Piotr Bernatowicz

“…The explored area, the East-Central European countries, which emerged, as a result of the Yalta Conference, between the iron curtain and the border of The Soviet Union (including former Yugoslavia) appears at least as an ‘old maiden' land, where scientific penetration still seems to be necessary.…”
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Visual symbols of new identity in cities of modern Ukraine during the interwar period by Svitlana Linda, Olga Mychajłyszyn

“…In the interwar period western and eastern parts of the modern-day Ukraine were included into two countries – the Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union. The development of cities of modern-day Ukraine during 1920-30th took place according to various ideological and cultural models. …”
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The Refined USSR Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Database for Borovoye Geophysical Observatory by Kseniia Nepeina, Vadim An

“…Peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) were made for industrial applications in the Soviet Union. This study is based on a comparison of PNEs&#8217; parameters. …”
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Iran’s Security Policy in the Caspian Region by Nikolay A. Medushevskii, Nikita A. Filin, Vladimir O. Koklikov, Elena E. Samoilova

“…Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Caspian Sea was divided between Iran and the USSR under an agreement. …”
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“The Lebanese” and their fate in biographical perspective by Jakub Gałęziowski

“…The text is about Poles who in 1941, as a result of the so-called amnesty, left the Soviet Union and wandered the earth to end up in Lebanon. …”
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Nuclear Deterrence Policy in the Post-Cold War Period by Gorda Gibradze, Alika Guchua

“…During the Cold War, there were two nuclear superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, who had their own allies. …”
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A.A. Gromyko and Security Policy: Сonceptual Tactics of Diplomacy (to the 115th Anniversary of A.A. Gromyko) by Alexey A. Sindeev

“…Gromyko (the so-called Gromyko system) were approved by the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the state leadership of the USSR. Therefore, A.A. …”
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