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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Former soviet"”.
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Forecasting Stability Levels for the Countries of the Former Soviet Union
… for the stability levels of the countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU). This model could ultimately be used to help formulate policies that enhance stability in developing or transitioning countries.
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Strategic planning for Turkish contracting companies in the former Soviet Union
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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The Politics of Strategic Offensive Nuclear Weapons in the Former Soviet Union
… and disposition of the nuclear arsenal of the former Super Power. This study examines that problem. It also seeks to clarify the politics and motivations of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan vis-a-vis nuclear weapons. The overt statements of nuclear intent expressed by these countries, …
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The Push Factors that Impact Sex Trafficking in the Former Soviet Union
… Russia, and Ukraine as they were a part of the Soviet Union the study identifies the push factors of sex trafficking in women as forced labor with particular emphasis on the role of weak legal systems and state institutions, corruption, social and economic factors, and environmental problems …
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A strategy for NASA's utilization of space assets in the former Soviet Union
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1993.
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The Russian migration regime and migrants' experiences: the case of non-Russian nationals from former Soviet republics
… of a particular group of migrants, namely, former Soviet citizens from former republics of the USSR, who are currently living in post-Soviet Russia without Russian citizenship. The thesis explores and analyses, on the one hand, the structures which constitute the Russian migration regime …
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Complete Freedom from Addiction, through Christ: Observation and Life-Stories from the former Soviet Union and Interviews with International Rehabilitation Leaders
… rehabilitation of thousands of addicts in the former Soviet Union using 50 life-stories of ex-addicts and personal observation over six years visiting 60 rehabilitation centres. Addiction is understood to be primarily a spiritual problem that has powerful psychological and physical consequences …
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Financing upstream oil and gas ventures in the transitional economies of the former Soviet Union: a study of foreign investment and associated risks
The development of the Foreign Oil and Gas Investment (FOGI) Database permitted a systematic study of all reported upstream projects involving foreign investors throughout FSU, in order to assess the reaction of western capital to the opening up of the FSU's oil industry. While we identified 292 …
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(Neo) revolutionary messages : an analysis of the impact of counter-narratives versus state narratives during the 1991 Coup D'etat in the former Soviet Union
… 19, 1991, government hard-liners overthrew the Soviet Union for a period of 72 hours. Boris Yeltsin, the President of Russia, staged a protest on the steps of the Russian White House, where he gave speeches against the coup d'etat, releasing these speeches for dissemination between the …
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Linking housing and capital markets in the former Soviet Bloc : the status of residential mortgage bond and secondary markets in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation ("Russia") and former soviet satellite countries and republics of Central and Eastern Europe ("Soviet Bloc") have struggled with privatizing housing and establishing market-based residential mortgage systems. This thesis …
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Soviet-Japanese Relations: Past, Present and Future
… economic and military relations between the former Soviet Union and Japan. By studying recent and contemporary relations between the two countries, with particular attention to the Kurile Islands dispute, patterns and trends are established that may provide insight on future relations between …
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The roles of regional organisations in international peace and security in the post-modern era. The case of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe with the Former Soviet Union Republic States.
The thesis analyses the systems, dynamics and conditions of international cooperation/non-cooperation in the international community that is embodied through international/regional institutions and organisations. As Robert Cooper describes, the international community consists of the three worlds …
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The Trident Program and Strategic Policy
… submarines (SSBNs). The recent collapse of the Soviet Union and the signing of the START treaties produced a sudden and dramatic shift in policy that further increased America's reliance on SSBNs for strategic deterrence as the Bush Administration canceled the MX rail-car garrison and the Small …
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Reflective journalistic practice in an environment of uncertainty and change
… as a BBC correspondent in the Middle East and Former Soviet Union.
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Language and the politics of ethnicity: The case of Ukraine
… politics. Such movements have swept through the former Soviet borderlands since the inception of glasnost', and remarkably enough, attesting to the centrality of the language question, the first revendication of every single republic in 1988-1989 was to enhance the status of the language of its …
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Jewish Multi -Ethnicities in Post -Soviet Russia: An Eventful Ethnography of the Moscow Choral Synagogue
… can provide new insights into both post-Soviet ethnography and Jewish studies. Much of the research done on emerging market practices in the former Soviet Union emphasizes the concept of transition and fails to fully address the ways in which people creatively react to and shape their …
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Still Standing: Cooperative strategies for the renovation of Soviet mass housing
Mass housing across the former Soviet Union is in varying states of disrepair, having lasted much longer than it was expected to when built in the 1960s. Treatment of the buildings varies greatly depending on context, as some are replaced, others are renovated, and many are neglected. But in most …
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From Dependence to Global Integration for Development: A Case Study of Vietnam—from 1975 to Present
… was able to graduate from dependence on the former Soviet Union and achieved economic development and human development.</p> <p>This study determines that Vietnam has become one of the best-performing developing economies in the world. The Vietnamese people's standard of living has improved …
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