But not all countries of the camp of the winners were able to conduct this fight, since suffered serious losses in economic terms. ... This is primarily to assist in removing the United States from the theater of operations and the associated security investments. ... It was with these weapons the US administration has decided to pursue a policy of defending its national interests in the world, "the US military said this quite openly. ... However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ... In addition, the Soviet troops were pushed forward away from its immediate bor...

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However, market demand is still very big and with methods of doing business becoming more "western-style" Russia makes more and more foreign businessmen turn their look towards expansion into their market. ... A string of suicide bombers from the breakaway Republic of Chechnya in July was the reason for tougher security. ... Many of the injured were soldiers recovering from wounds sustained in Chechnya. ... These stories, or skazki, were passed down orally from generation to generation. ... From this ambiance Russia created a culture thickened with stories, which were tied in and connected ...

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Such pseudonyms were quite common among the Russian revolutionaries of that period; Lenin often published under the name "Tulin" (note that even the names "Lenin" and "Stalin" were political pseudonyms). ... In January 1912, Stalin was nominated by Lenin to the Central Committee; by now Lenin was quite impressed with Stalin's writings (which he generally worked on while in exile). ... On November 15, Stalin revealed the Decree on Nationality, which stated that the new Bolshevik government would treat all ethnic minorities within the Soviet sphere equally, and would respect the right of ...

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(Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... At this point, Stalin began his rise to dominance by destroying his rival Trotsky, expelling him from the party in 1927 and exiling him from the Soviet Union in 1929. ... But while his rivals from the '20s had suffered defeat, they were still alive and in the Party. ... So began the "Great Terror," the aptly named period when Stalin effectively liquidated all traces of opposition to his rule. ... All of the confessors were sentenced to death. ...

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Initially open-minded to these western philosophies Alexander was inspired by his role models to spread these ideas, therefore becoming a "European" rather than just a Russian ruler. Thomas Jefferson who thought quite highly of Alexander, wrote from Monticello in 1806, It will be among the latest and most soothing comforts of my life to have seen advanced to the government of so extensive a portion of the earth and at so early a period of his life a sovereign whose ruling passion is the advancement of the happiness and prosperity of his people; and not of his own people only, but wh...

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After the collapse of the highly centralized planned economy and its transition to a market economy, it is quite natural for the Russian Far East to direct its attention toward neighboring countries in the Northeast Asia. ... Although there are still high hurdles between the Western Europe and the Eastern Europe at the national level in the integration process, the integration of the both parts of the Europe is making steady progress at the micro level. ... It seems that my talk jumps to a quite different topic, but I would like to explain the case of Slovenia, which composed the former Yugos...

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The bulk of the country's natural gas reserves under development and production are in the upper Western Siberia. ... Some of the most prolific fields in Siberia include Yamburg, Urengoy, and Medvezh'ye, all of which are licensed to Gazprom. ... A substantial amount of natural gas is also associated with oil deposits in the country's oil heartland in Western Siberia. ... Russia sends about 76% of its natural gas exports to customers in Western Europe, with Germany, Turkey, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom receiving the bulk of these volumes. ... In the modern United States ...

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From 1948 onwards, a more or less clear-cut line divided Europe into two main political and military blocs: the communist bloc and the free world of Western Europe, resulting in an almost perfect bipolarity. ... How this took place during and after the Cold War is in many ways quite dissimilar. However, more importantly than the all encompassing quadrangle, it is the strategic geometry within the quadrangle that is most interesting and illustrates best, the changes and nuances in the transition from Cold War to post Cold War. ... As Mandlebaum suggests "Indeed in Asia, the structure of politic...

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The term "serf" is derived from the Latin word "servus", meaning servant or slave. ... Not all serfs experienced the same conditions in Russia. ... It consisted of a very confined hut not quite adequate for an entire family. ... Feudalism was given a huge blow in Western Europe by the French Revolution and Napoleon. ... Legally, landowners had to be responsible for all their serfs. ...

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If the Soviet Union were the face attack from these capitalist powers it would need a stronger industrial platform with which to launch a successful war effort. ... However, it is quite possible that Stalin overstated the probability of war deliberately to push through his ambitions and to strengthen his personal power within the party. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a revolution from below. ... The N.E.P had created a large amount of friction within the party at all levels and this was beginn...

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This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Europe. ... One factor in this might be that the energy security issue as a whole is not as attractive to writers as other topical subjects as the former energy commissioner of EU Andris Piebalgs says: "They tend to forget or fail to appreciate the importance of energy and mutual future security issues even though they are at the forefront of the new European security agenda. " One other reason for this could be that the idea o...

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In October 1917, the Red Army joined the Revolutionists and put down once and for all the Tsarist Régime that had reigned over Russian since the fifteenth century. The streets were filled with joy, as all through Russia artists embraced the Revolution, calling for a change. ... In the words of Kazimir Malevich, he declared "Let us seize [the world] from the hands of nature and build a new world belonging to [man] himself" (Gray 219). ... Avant-garde artist Igor Grabar recloection when meeting Lenin can best explain Lenin's Plan For Monumental Propaganda when he said "I've ...

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Such a pretext would have been unbelievable, in light of the fact that Russian- speaking people suffered from the bombing of Grozny at least as much as the native population. ... The tragedy in Chechnya not withstanding, and with all due concern towards the dangerous tensions that exist between Moscow and it various ethnic republics, I agree with Gail Lapidus and Edward Walker that it is unlikely that we will see a significant secession movement in the Russian Federation in the near future. ... All established democracies are located in countries that place economic manufacture and a...

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