... the disaster of the Malaysian Boeing probably shot down by the Ukrainian rebels supported unofficially by Russian troops. The disaster which killed many researchers and scientists from Western countries caused widespread outrage in Europe and the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin is supposed to firmly support a conservative authoritarianism based on strong family relationship values and the teachings of today's ... Russian Orthodox Church. Russians president, Putin, puts these values as an other option to Western European rules and beliefs of liberal democracy. He presents ...

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... allies, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States. After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's interests around the world. Meanwhile, he launched a new wave of repression in the Soviet Union. By 1949, Soviet scientists had exploded an atomic bomb, ... World War II In a sense, the Nazi-Soviet Pact was a brilliant move on Stalin's part, since it gave him an opportunity to drastically improve his country's strategic position along its western border, ...

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... growth of economic power of America. During World War II for the US economy were truly "golden": with the beginning of military operations from Europe to America poured a huge flow of capital greatly stimulated its economic growth. This is primarily to assist in removing the United States from ... an escalation of misunderstandings and complaints, although the administration of the US president and the variants of the nuclear bombing of Soviet troops in Western Europe in order to intimidate the USSR and declination it on their positions. US foreign policy after the Second World War, whi...

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... Alexander was quite prepared to use the congress to pursue the traditional aims of foreign policy, in particular the aims of westward expansion and European dominance, which greatly angered the Western states. Also in 1815, Russia joined Prussia and Austria in forming the Holy Alliance, in an alliance against the other dominant European nations. Britain's foreign secretary, Lord Castlereagh ... communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their i...

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... be] understood,"" then the choreographer had failed (v). In the 1900's, the Russians became a driving force in the art of ballet. Much of Europe, and even America, was greatly influenced by the Russians' superb skill and their innovative ideas and techniques. They began a dance revolution that not ... the 21st century's standards for all forms of dance. Yet, before one can understand why the Russian Ballet changed 20th century dance for all of Western Civilization, there first must be a basic knowledge of the history of ballet. Ballet can't be traced to, nor was it necessarily invented ...

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... performance results from an incredibly efficient architecture design that has been continually refined by the Elbrus team. Over the decades, it turns out that it was often far ahead of Western rivals, introducing cutting-edge technologies such as superscalar design, shared-memory multiprocessing and explicitly parallel instruction computing (EPIC) before similar products. Supercomputer Architect, Boris Babain, who leads the Elbrus team ... expanding the market but also to identify technologies we can help bring out to the rest of the world-, says Marie E. Trexler, Intel Capital's managi...

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... Zhdanovshchina" continued for several more years. The noted filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and great composers such as Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitrii Shostakovich were denounced for "neglect of ideology and subservience to Western influence". The attacks extended to scientists and philosophers and continued until after Stalin's death in 1953. Stalin increased the size of the Kremlin bureaucracy: commissariats, commissions, and committees regimented ... contained secret protocols providing for the partition of Poland and for Soviet and German spheres of influence in Eastern Europe. Finland, La...

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... Zhdanovshchina" continued for several more years. The noted filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and great composers such as Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitrii Shostakovich were denounced for "neglect of ideology and subservience to Western influence". The attacks extended to scientists and philosophers and continued until after Stalin's death in 1953. Stalin increased the size of the Kremlin bureaucracy: commissariats, commissions, and committees regimented ... contained secret protocols providing for the partition of Poland and for Soviet and German spheres of influence in Eastern Europe. Finland, La...

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... and international communication, the idea of neoliberalism began to take root in the international community. From the start of the Ukraine crisis, the western powers have devoted to upholding the principals of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is a view that holds the idea that the world is "hard ... its security and the security of the points of interests it had in Eastern Europe since there is no actor with the power to regulate relationships between different states. With the Western powers pushing liberal foreign policies on Ukraine by allowing it to join the EU, ... Ukraine fosters. Ho...

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... , analysts say that the region contains 4-5 per cent of global oil and gas reserves. It also offers Western oil companies reasonably good access, in contrast to the Gulf States and (increasingly) Russia, which prefer to exploit their natural resources through state-controlled companies. Europe has been importing direct-oil from Caspian region (bypassing Russia) through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline (BTC). ... in communication appear to further cloud the picture. Finally on  July 13, 2009, EU governments and Turkey signed a transit agreement for the Nabucco gas pipeline, which clearly...

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... Stone Age. However, an asserted political unite in Transcaucasus was dated in the post-Hittite period at the end of the second millennium B.C. Located at the meeting point of southeastern Europe and western borders of Asia this region was historically under the influence of Roman Empire, Greeks and later Mongols, Persians, and Turks. The biggest influence to region and its population undoubtedly ... Presidents of those countries. (41, 3% of responders). On the other hand, OSCE Minsk working group acts based on territorial inviolability of the countries. In other words, they are based on...

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... to suprematism and opening the way to Suprematist design. In 1922 El Lissitzky, who had worked closely with Malevich at Vitebsk, left Russia for western Europe. The re-establishment of diplomatic relations with western European countries ended eight years of cultural isolation and intense ferment for Russian artists, during which every aspect of artistic activity had been called into ... and lecturing on behalf of Russia's modern artists who believed that abstraction was a harbinger of utopian social values. Lissitzky helped produce publications and organize exhibitions promoting both Ru...

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... by their domestic and foreign affairs, leading his vision of Russia to enhance and protect the revolutionary ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. 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 ... of Austria, Viscount Robert Castlereagh of Britain, Chancellor Prince Karl August von Hardenberg of Prussia, and Tsar Alexander I met in the Austrian capital to discuss the reconstruction of Europe. Initial...

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... time: Slavophilism and Westernism. Solzhenitsyn is presented to be a person with Slavophilic tendencies, while Sakharov is presented to be an advocate of the Western model of development for Russia. The essay discusses their paths to dissidence and their opposition to the Soviet regime. It also provides a comparison of ... Slavophilism and Westernism. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 the world changed dramatically. The Cold War ended and the threat of communism ended in Europe. Such Eastern European countries as Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republi...

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... simpler model of strategic geometry which existed in Europe during the Cold War. 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. However ... , the politics in Asia during the same period were more dynamic and nuanced than just the simple East-West divide of Europe. ... Here, there was none of "the sharp structural clarity of Europe," no drawing of a ... triangular nature. As Mandlebaum suggests "Indeed in Asia, the structure of p...

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... 'Euroregions' are interesting examples of 'cooperative relationship of municipalities across borders'. 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. At the level of municipalities which are adjacent to each other, on ... transportation, prevention of air pollution, promotion of regional development, health and social security, education and culture, tourism, etc. More than 40 'Euroregions' are establish...

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... serfs also hunted in the fall and vegetables had been farmed for their families as well. After the fall of the Roman Empire in Europe the lack of a central authority gave rise to local lords exercising control. Land that once belonged to the peasant communes soon became private ... not the lord's property, their possessions and labor power were. Serfdom is the Russian form of feudalism. The feudal system was still widespread in Europe as late as the seventeenth century, but seriously declined in the eighteenth century, except in Russia. Russian nobles demanded ever increasing shares of t...

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... these. Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. If the Soviet Union were the face attack from these capitalist powers it would need a stronger industrial platform with which to launch a ... Stalins cry for socialism in one country' theory which promoted building a strong and lasting socialist country. As Hitler took more power in Europe these arguments became more and more convincing to a country faced with a barrage of anti-Communist resentment from the capitalist states, and were ... Furthermore...

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... liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports starting in January 2014, breaking Gazprom's absolute export monopoly. The bulk of the country's natural gas reserves under development and production are in the upper Western Siberia. However, Gazprom is increasingly inventing in new regions, such as the Yamal Peninsula, Eastern Siberia, and Sakhalin Island, to bring gas deposits in these areas into production. Some of ... the world's second-largest dry natural gas producer (23.8 Tcf), second only to the United States (24.1 Tcf). Russia sends about 76% of its natural gas exports to customers in Weste...

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... dominoes falling down. A good example of this was when China became Communist, soon its neighbour Korea was Communist as well. Russia was worried about America bases in NATO countries in Europe. There was always competition between Russia and America because they were two superpowers. There was the Arms Race, where both countries competed for newer, stronger weapons than the other. Such ... . It is not going to be biased because it is well researched and is not siding with anyone. Were contemporaries correct in regarding President Kennedy as the saviour of the western world after the Cub...

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... the Dnieper River and attacked the city from the south. A courageous rearguard action by a group of 9,500 Russian soldiers under General Neverovsky gained enough time for the First and Second Western Armies to unite in the city and hear Barclay's command. Bargation and most of the generals were determined to make a stand but Barclay disagreed with them. He recognized that his ... December 5th Napoleon decided to leave the army and return to France, leaving Murat in command. He was worried that if he stayed with the army that his grip on Europe would be loosened and that Prussia and Aust...

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... dominoes falling down. A good example of this was when China became Communist, soon its neighbour Korea was Communist as well. Russia was worried about America bases in NATO countries in Europe. There was always competition between Russia and America because they were two superpowers. There was the Arms Race, where both countries competed for newer, stronger weapons than the other. Such ... . It is not going to be biased because it is well researched and is not siding with anyone. Were contemporaries correct in regarding President Kennedy as the saviour of the western world after the Cub...

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