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Safety, immunogenicity, and protective efficacy of the intranasal live pertussis vaccine GamLPV in an infant monkey model (Papio hamadryas)

open access: yesБиопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение
INTRODUCTION. The current progressive increase in pertussis incidence and infant mortality rates is due to the insufficient effectiveness of existing vaccines, both in Russia and worldwide.
D. T. Kubrava   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seed fossil record of Solanaceae revisited

open access: yesTAXON, Volume 75, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract The fossil record for Solanaceae has a complex taxonomic history, with many species originally described in the family being subsequently shown to belong in other plant families. In this work, we present an in‐depth analysis of the nightshade seed fossil record, which corresponds to the largest amount of fossil material for the family.
Rocío Deanna   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Security Issues in the 2008 Russian-Georgian War [PDF]

open access: yesEastern European Journal of Regional Studies, 2020
The article aims to establish the security issues present in the 2008 Georgian conflict, and explore the securitization process by the Russian Federation, Georgia, and other involved parties.
Nicoleta MIRZA
doaj  

A Privilege That Can Be Withdrawn: Regulation of Exit in Russia and Other Post‐Soviet Republics

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The former Soviet Union's restrictions on citizens' foreign travel or emigration were notoriously draconian. Yet what replaced them in the fifteen independent states of the post‐Soviet region has not been well analysed. Outside the Baltic republics, the monolithic and prohibitive policies of the Soviet past have given way to a patchwork of ...
Matthew Light, Leonid Kosals
wiley   +1 more source

Law as Adjunct to Custom? Abkhaz custom and law in today's state-building and 'modernisation' - (Studied through dispute resolution) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The setting for research is Abkhazia a small country south of the Caucasus Mountains and bordering Europe and the Near East. The Abkhaz hold onto custom – apswara – to make of state law an adjunct to custom as the state strives to strengthen its powers ...
Costello, Michael
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Conflict in Abkhazia: Reasons and Solutions

open access: yes, 2019
Abkhazia is a breakaway region of Georgia with 240, 000 population (Freedom House. 2018). Ethnic Abkhazians firstly expanded over western Georgia in the ninth century and soon integrated in Sakartvelo with ethnic Georgians.
Gia Mosashvili (7041095)
core   +1 more source

“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

Reintegration or Reconquest? Georgia's policy towards Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the context of the internal and international situation. OSW Point of View, May 2008 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia have been Georgia's main security problem since the beginning of the 1990s, and, along with the Armenian-Azeri conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, have made up the main security problems in the South ...
Bartuzi, Wojciech, Strachota, Krzysztof
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What Vanuatu's Recognition of Abkhazia Might Mean

open access: yes, 2011
This past weekend the small Pacific Island country of Vanuatu announced that it would recognize the independence of Abkhazia, the disputed territory on the Black Sea which is viewed as independent by Russia, Nauru, Vanuatu, Venezuela and Nicaragua, but ...
Mitchell, Lincoln A.
core   +1 more source

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