It is a small country with an area of 20,251 square kilometers and with population of less than 2 million. As Niigata prefecture where I live has an area of 12,500 square meters and population of 2 million and a half, Slovenia is smaller than our prefecture in terms of population. ...
The Jewish population in the former USSR has been steadily decreasing since late 1980`s, when immigration to Israel and other countries has first been allowed. Before the breakup of the USSR, Russia has been populated by about one-third of the total Jewish population of Soviet Union. ...
Research from the 1990s prove that the Soviet/Russian culture is not an obstacle for a transition to democracy (Gibson, Dutch and Tedin, 1992). ... In the case of Ukraine, the opposition knew to mobilize the population, after news reports leaked out that the results of the presidential election had been manipulated. ...
Limited participation in direct hostilities (during the war years the number of American troops did not exceed one million, and the population at that time was approximately 110 million people), and also the most active and significant maintenance of industrial and financial basis of the fight against fascism contributed to the extraordinary growth of economic power of America. ...
The Fall of Communism in Russia The Reasons for the fall of Socialism/Communism and the Troubles of Starting the New Democratic System in the Russian Federation "Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky." Boris Yeltsin (b. 1931), Russian politician, president. Remark during a visit to the U.S. Quoted in: Independent (London, 13 Sept. 1989). ...
