Looking to Each Other: Russian-European Relations among Hostility and Fear by Lara Piccardo

“…Even before the birth of the Soviet Union, Europe and Russia had always looked to each other with diffidence or fear. …”
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УЧАСТЬ СПІВРОБІТНИКІВ ЧЕРНІВЕЦЬКОГО ДЕРЖАВНОГО МЕДИЧНОГО ІНСТИТУТУ В ЛІКВІДАЦІЇ ВОГНИЩ ЗОБНОЇ ЕНДЕМІЇ НА ТЕРИТОРІЇ ЧЕРНІВЕЦЬКОЇ ОБЛАСТІ (1945–1949 РР.) / PARTICIPATION OF CHERNIVTS... by Тарас БОЙЧУК, Антоній МОЙСЕЙ

“…At the time of the Soviet Union in Ukraine to regions of maximum risk of IDD traditionally according Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Ternopil and Volyn regions. …”
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Urbanization and sustainability under transitional economies: a synthesis for Asian Russia by Peilei Fan, Jiquan Chen, Zutao Ouyang, Pavel Groisman, Tatiana Loboda, Garik Gutman, Alexander V Prishchepov, Anna Kvashnina, Joseph Messina, Nathan Moore, Soe W Myint, Jiaguo Qi

“…In an effort to synthesize data and knowledge regarding urbanization and sustainable development in Asian Russia in the context of socioeconomic transformation following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1990, we quantified the spatiotemporal changes of urban dynamics using satellite imagery and explored the interrelationships between urbanization and sustainability. …”
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ЕКОНОМІЧНИЙ СТАН ГЕРЦАЇВСЬКОЇ ВОЛОСТІ У ДРУГІЙ ПОЛОВИНІ ХІХ СТОЛІТТЯ by Антоній МОЙСЕЙ, Аркадій МОІСЕЙ

“…It was formed as a result of annexation of the then Romanian territory by the Soviet Union. It included the northern part of Bukovina, the northern part of the Khotyn county and the Hertsaivsk volost’ of the Dorogoyskyj district, which was not mentioned in any legal document. …”
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Royalist resistance movement in Yugoslavia during the Second World War by Kosta Nikolić, Nebojša Stambolija

“…The relations between Great Britain and the Soviet Union were especially sensitive: both countries wanted to use a victory in the war as a means of increasing their political power and influence. …”
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POTRAUMINIO STRESO SUTRIKIMĄ TURINČIŲ LIETUVOS AFGANISTANO KARO VETERANŲ TRAUMINĖS PATIRTIES IR POTRAUMINĖS SIMPTOMATIKOS RYŠYS by Vėjūnė Domanskaitė-Gota, Danutė Gailienė, Evaldas Kazlauskas

“…Four regions (capital cities, cities, small cities, and countryside), with the sample allocation proportionate to the distribution of Lithuanian population, geographically stratified the sample; 174 men served in Afghanistan during the Soviet Union – Afghanistan war. They were divided into two groups according to the manifestation of posttraumatic stress disorder. …”
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A CHRONICLE OF THE ACTIONS OF 1–11 MARCH 1990 FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF LITHUANIA by Česlovas Vytautas Stankevičius

“…On 24 February 1990, for the first time since the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union in 1940, free elections were held to the puppet Supreme Council of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. …”
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A short history from Karelia study to biodiversity and public health interventions by Tari Haahtela, Tari Haahtela, Harri Alenius, Harri Alenius, Petri Auvinen, Nanna Fyhrquist, Leena von Hertzen, Pekka Jousilahti, Piia Karisola, Tiina Laatikainen, Tiina Laatikainen, Jenni Lehtimäki, Laura Paalanen, Lasse Ruokolainen, Kimmo Saarinen, Erkka Valovirta, Erkka Valovirta, Tuula Vasankari, Tuula Vasankari, Tiina Vlasoff, Marina Erhola, Jean Bousquet, Jean Bousquet, Jean Bousquet, Erkki Vartiainen, Mika J. Mäkelä, Mika J. Mäkelä

“…After the World War II, Karelia was split into Finnish and Soviet Union (now Russia) territories. This led to more marked environmental and lifestyle changes in the Finnish compared with Russian Karelia. …”
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Berliner Geowissenschaftlerinnen an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität von 1906 bis 1945, eine Fallstudie by B. A. R. Mohr, A. Vogt

“…This was, however, in contrast to Russia and later the Soviet Union where women were relatively early accepted even as university teachers. …”
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Eesti keele ja kultuuri õpetamisest Oulu ülikoolis by Heli Laanekask

“…In Oulu, a decision was made to invite the lecturer from Estonia; at other Finnish universities, the lecturers were Estonians who had settled in Finland before or during World War II. The Soviet Union allowed the Estonian lecturers to work in Finland only for one or two, later for three or four academic years. …”
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Bring data! Corrida espacial e inteligência by Leandro Siqueira

“…In this article, we try to explain the post-World War II context in which the United States and Soviet Union decided to invest in technologies to exploit and occupy outer space, especially the terrestrial orbit, highlighting their strategies for obtaining information about the action of the "enemy" through the constitution of permanent systems of intelligence at a low political cost for tense bipolar relations. …”
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Influence of high-latitude warming and land-use changes in the early 20th century northern Eurasian CO2 sink by Ana Bastos, Anna Peregon, Érico A Gani, Sergey Khudyaev, Chao Yue, Wei Li, Célia M Gouveia, Philippe Ciais

“…By compiling a dataset of annual agricultural area in the Former Soviet Union that better reflects changes in cropland area linked with socio-economic fluctuations during the early 20th century, we show that land-abadonment during periods of crisis and war may result in reduced CO _2 emissions from land-use change (44%–78% lower) detectable at decadal time-scales. …”
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'Median culture': The dialogue of binary and trinitarian system of thought by Y.G. Nigmatullina

“…The increased interest in this aspect during the late 20th – early 21st century is explained by a number of facts: it is the response of culture to the fundamental changes that occurred in Russia during the collapse of the Soviet Union, moreover, in broader meaning, the realization of the catastrophic consequences of the confrontation of nations and states during the age of globalization; it is the tendencies toward philosophical understanding of contemporary science, the desire to combine different conceptions of world view through “the unified theory of interaction” (Yu.S. …”
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Educational system reforms, changes, and inequality in attainment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by Hossain, M

“…This aligns with the existing debate that de-standardisation reforms may have been diffused more authoritarian regimes; many of those were part of the former Soviet Union. However, the result is the reverse for de-standardisation at the school level. …”

Kolm Eesti Robinsoni: Daniel Defoe romaan eesti tõlkes / Three Estonian Robinsons: Daniel Defoe’s Novel in Estonian Translation by Ene-Reet Soovik, Kaisa Vaher

“…Rudolf Sirge’s translation appeared at a time when Estonia had fairly recently been incorporated into the Soviet Union and there was a lack of children’s literature ideologically appreciated by the regime. …”
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IN SEARCH OF A NEW GAZE. IMAGE OF RUSSIA IN CONTEMPORARY POLISH DOCUMENTARY CINEMA / В ПОИСКАХ НОВОГО ВЗГЛЯДА. ОБРАЗ РОССИИ В ПОЛЬСКОМ СОВРЕМЕННОМ ДОКУМЕНТАЛЬНОМ КИНО... by SAJEWICZ ANNA / САЕВИЧ А.

“…There is a derogatory Polish word, rusek, which refers to all inhabitants of the former Soviet Union regardless of their current citizenship. …”
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Regilaul tuulte pöörises. Eesti folkloristika poliitiliste muutuste ajajärgul 20. sajandi keskel / Regilaul in the whirlpool. Estonian folkloristics during the political changes in... by Liina Saarlo

“…Academic life in Estonia was guided by the resolutions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which were observed and monitored closely by local authorities at the plenary meetings of the Estonian Communist Party and further discussed at the meetings of local academic institutions. …”
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«Å skape mening i konsolideringens navn» by Jens Petter Nielsen

“…Generally speaking, Putin’s approach to history aims to use historical knowledge as a vehicle for the promotion of national unity, following the long period of disruption and decline after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It is no secret that Putin and his closest staff are not overly enthusiastic about the 1917 Revolution, and there is even a certain fear in the Kremlin that Russia could be hit by a new revolution, a so-called ‘colour revolution’. …”
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Modern Challenges to Effective Functioning of Local Self-Government (On the Example of Saint Petersburg) by V. A. Semenov, V. V. Ereshkin

“…As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union and emergence of the Russian Federation, proc-lamation of democratic values and democratization of society, political parties and other public organizations began to appear. …”
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Compensatory evolution drives multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Central Asia by Matthias Merker, Maxime Barbier, Helen Cox, Jean-Philippe Rasigade, Silke Feuerriegel, Thomas Andreas Kohl, Roland Diel, Sonia Borrell, Sebastien Gagneux, Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy, Sönke Andres, Ulrich Nübel, Philip Supply, Thierry Wirth, Stefan Niemann

“…Bacterial factors favoring the unprecedented multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) epidemic in the former Soviet Union remain unclear. We utilized whole genome sequencing and Bayesian statistics to analyze the evolutionary history, temporal emergence of resistance and transmission networks of MDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan (2001–2006). …”
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