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The first press release about the meetings of football teams in Mykolaіv
Local periodicals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were studied. and local history literature from the funds of the State Archive of the Mykolaiv Region, the National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadskyi, the Odesa National Scientific
I. Martsincovskiy
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ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, diplomatic organizations have recruited increasing numbers of women as career diplomats. However, research in the fields of both expatriation and diplomacy emphasizes that transnational careers have been historically monopolized by men, that most “trailing spouses” are still women, and that men's transnational ...
Romain Lecler, Yann Goltrant
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Bosphorus Strait and Its Environs in Russian Written Sources of the 1830s
In this article, Russian written sources of the 1830s are analyzed in terms of perception of the Bosphorus and its environs by the Russians. The author refers to Letters from the Anatolian Side of the Bosphorus by a Russian soldier published in the ...
Türkan Olcay
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Does Privatization Hurt Workers? Lessons from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Panel Data in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine [PDF]
We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to longitudinal data on manufacturing firms, our fixed effect and random trend models consistently fail to support workers' fears of job ...
Almos Telegdy +2 more
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Contending with Putin's Russia [PDF]
As President Barack Obama enters his second term, relations with Russia present him with a set of thorny problems. The first-term "reset," a fresh American posture toward the Kremlin that was designed to build productive relations by offering compromises
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WASTE DONATIONS: Shopkeeper–Waste Picker Relations in Istanbul and the Limits of Hospitable Giving
ABSTRACT In Istanbul, shopkeepers frequently dispose of their paper and plastic waste by giving it to select migrant waste pickers. This article examines these waste donations as a novel form of hospitable giving in Turkey, a country that has hosted millions of irregular migrants and asylum seekers since 2011.
KEVIN YILDIRIM
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Understanding the Normalization of the Japanese Economy
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on three aspects of the Japanese economy that deviated from “normalcy”—unconventional monetary policy, unsustainable fiscal policy, and declining growth and productivity. Non‐normality in Japan has developed over the past few decades, but has become more prominent during the Abenomics years starting in 2013.
Takatoshi Ito
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Neo-Democracy, National Security, and Liberty [PDF]
In his new book, Liberty and Security, Conor Gearty, professor of law at the London School of Economics and one of the United Kingdom’s leading authorities on civil liberties and national security, argues that many Western nations are in effect “neo ...
Cole, David
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Godfrey Bingley was a British industrialist who took up geology, photography and travel in the 1880s. His photographs are housed at the University of Leeds, where he worked with its Chair of Geology. This article analyses the archive's projection of the imperial geological imaginary that emanated from Britain and extended to the Americas.
Rebecca Jarman
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Choice of ownership structure and firm performance: Evidence from Estonia [PDF]
In this paper we use rich panel data for a representative sample of Estonian enterprises to analyse diverse issues related to the determinants of ownership structures and ownership changes after privatisation.
Derek C. Jones, Niels Mygind, Panu Kalmi
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