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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Yeltsin"”.
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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
… 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 hard-liners and the masses gathered to support …
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The Medvedev years : an examination of the external forces & internal dynamics affecting the Kremlin's foreign policy decisions
… The legacies of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are traced from the Soviet democratization during the 1980’s and the constitutional empowerment of the Russian presidency during the 1990’s. These two coexistent forces of empowering the average citizen in a country in which the President is …
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RUSSIA IN TRANSITION: A POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE DISOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION, EVOLUTION OF CAPITALIST REFORM AND THE CREATION OF PUTINISM, 1985-2015
… the mixed legacy of shock therapy under Boris Yeltsin, culminating in the ultimate ascendancy of Vladimir Putin as a response to the perceived loss of national status and social dislocation resulting from the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras. Ultimately, it is asserted that Putinism is ideologically …
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The Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty and the search for regional stability in Eastern Europe
… insult, and conilict, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchina signed the treaty on 31 May 1997. In the end, it was NATO enlargement that forced Russia to sign the treaty and to recognize Ukraine as an independent state. This is a study of the difficult process and …
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The Political Geography of Regional Diplomacy in the Russian Federation
… paradiplomacy practices burgeoned under the Yeltsin government. However, after two decades of Putin’s centralising reforms much of this regional autonomy, including the right to pursue international activities, has been constrained. Based on qualitative research including interviews with …
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Welfare Reforms in Post-Soviet States: A Comparison of Social Benefits Reform in Russia and Kazakhstan
… largely in the political instability of the Yeltsin era, and a lack of commitment to the reforms on the part of key political actors. And when the reform was finally launched, its ill-considered policies and the government’s failure to form the broad coalition and effectively frame the …
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Spheres Of Semi-Legality: Discourse, Media And Informal Economic Practices In St. Petersburg, Russia (2000-Present)
… dissertation project focuses on how the post-Yeltsin (2000 onwards) market economy actually works and how people define, identify and engage within this newly structured market economy. In order to understand this phenomenon my ethnographic study focuses on business in Russia from two …
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The strategic use of external threat in the shaping of Russian domestic and foreign policies
… arena in comparison to how it used to be during Yeltsin`s administration. This thesis will cover the roots of Putin’s behavior, which lies in utilizing external threat as a main instrument for both domestic and foreign policies. Clearly, there is some kind of strategy involved which is very …
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Russia Eternal: Recalling The Imperial Era In Late- And Post-Soviet Literature And Culture
… intelligentsia coalition that brought first Yeltsin and then Putin to power, and legitimated an undemocratic and increasingly repressive post-Soviet state. Chapter Four examines several vectors of a more thoroughly liberal humanist counter-discourse on the pre-Soviet past. I claim that this …
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Essays on political economy
… effect of these broadcasts in favor of Yeltsin, documenting that media can play an important role in political processes of regime change. In the second essay, I analyze the persistent effects of the territorial division in Spain between the Christian kingdoms in the north and Islamic …
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Dictators and democracy: reflective journalistic practice in covering post-Soviet Russia
… 3) censorship in the media: Gorbachev and Yeltsin 4) censorship in the media: Putin (including the rise of fake news) The sections are supported by a literature review of the politics and policies of (mainly) post-Soviet Russia and their impact on journalism. Through this framework, I aim …
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Caracterización del manejo zootécnico del cerdo criollo (Sus scrofa domesticus) en el área rural del municipio de Río Blanco, Matagalpa, 2013
El cerdo fue introducido a Nicaragua en el año 1493, durante el segundo viaje que Cristóbal Colón realizara a América durante la colonización española. La crianza de cerdo de traspatio en el país juega un rol importante en la economía de las familias rural es, siendo característica la presencia de …