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“Legalizing Oneself”: Citizenship, Waiting, and Fake Fakeness in Northern Cyprus

open access: yesPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the anthropological scholarship on citizenship and unrecognized states by analyzing how people grapple with the convoluted legal landscape of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). I present four life histories to describe the diverse citizenship constellations among the TRNC's (de facto) citizens and its ...
Bart Klem
wiley   +1 more source

Putinism and the End of the Taboo on Land Grabs in Russian Politics: An Insight into the Territorial Aspect of the Ideology

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 4, Page 593-611, October 2025.
Abstract Putinist ideology is not merely a project of a narrow political elite, but rather a set of ideas that hold domestic appeal. The ideologized vision of Russia fighting for its rightful place in the international arena has resonated with mass social grievances created by the fall of the USSR.
Alicja Curanović
wiley   +1 more source

ABKHAZIA IN MODERN GEORGIAN WRITING

open access: yesARTS ACADEMY, 2023
The article analyzes samples of modern Georgian writing from traumatic and post-traumatic literature. In particular, it is about the war in Abkhazia and the plight of refugees according to Guram Odisharia's novel «Return to Sokhumi»; also on the «merits» of the communist regime concerning the inspiration for the war.
Tamar Koberidze, Nino Mindiashvili
openaire   +2 more sources

Forest Resources of the Caucasian Black Sea Coast: Problems and Prospects of Rational Use [PDF]

open access: yesСибирский лесной журнал, 2015
More than 70 % of the Caucasian Black Sea Coast (CBSC) forests grow in mountainous conditions of the Colchis phytogeographical province and perform primary environmental functions.
S. M. Bebia
doaj  

Effect of Pest Control Strategies on Arthropod Pests of Apple in Europe: A Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Applied Entomology, Volume 149, Issue 6, Page 957-987, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) is a major fruit crop in Europe. More than 200 phytophagous arthropod species thrive in European apple orchards, several of which are economically important pests. Due to the pest pressure on apple production, consumer demand for residue‐free products and current policies to make food production in the European ...
Ingrid Aline Bapfubusa Niyibizi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 422-442, July 2025.
Abstract This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on ...
Sayana Namsaraeva, Vitaly Tsytsykov
wiley   +1 more source

COMBAT OPERATIONS IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF ABKHAZIA DURING THE BATTLE FOR THE CAUCASUS OF 1942-1943 MARUCH DIRECTION. I STAGE

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article touches upon the preconditions, general course and the outcome of the first stage of combat operations in Maruch direction during the battle for the Caucasus of 1942-1943, the composition and the size of Soviet and German forces as well as ...
N. I. Medvenskiy
doaj  

Hope and Distress: A Cross‐Country Study Amid the Russian‐Ukrainian War

open access: yesStress and Health, Volume 41, Issue 2, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Conflict deeply affects human experiences, frequently testing individual resilience to its breaking point and leaving enduring psychological and societal wounds. The current conflict in Ukraine, initiated by Russia's invasion in 2022, illustrates this phenomenon by altering regional relationships and triggering a major humanitarian crisis ...
Simon Esbit   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cenozoic Ampelopsis and Nekemias leaves (Vitaceae, Ampelopsideae) from Eurasia: Paleobiogeographic and paleoclimatic implications

open access: yesJournal of Systematics and Evolution, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 379-400, March 2025.
Synthesis of the paleobiogeographical history of Ampelopsideae from Eurasia. Nekemias mucronata sp. nov. (A); Ampelopsis hibschii (B). The results indicate that both species were already present in Eurasia during the late Eocene and later, during Oligocene times, dispersed across Eurasia. The last population of N.
Aixa Tosal, Alba Vicente, Thomas Denk
wiley   +1 more source

Networks of persistence: A new framework for protracted displacement from a Georgian lens

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 62, Issue 6, Page 211-233, December 2024.
Abstract Millions of internally displaced people are living in their own countries in a temporary status called ‘protracted displacement’, a term not without its debates. We use a social network analysis database to assess how social interactions and demographic characteristics, including the relative location of resettlement, may contribute to IDP ...
Jared R. Dmello, Beth Mitchneck
wiley   +1 more source

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