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Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention.
Konstantin Kazenin +2 more
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Mongolian Music and Theatre Vocabulary: Terms for String Instruments
Oriental StudiesIntroduction. The article deals with semantics and etymologies of most widely used traditional Mongolian string instruments. Goals. The study aims to show some particular features of how Mongolian music and theater vocabulary would take shape through the
Anna V. Mazarchuk
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Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War
The 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
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Catherine II as an Incarnation of White Tara: Did Buriats Deify the Romanovs?
Oriental Studies, 2023 Introduction. The tradition of worshipping the Russian Empress Catherine II by Buryat Buddhists as an earthly incarnation of the enlightened Buddhist deity White Tara is regarded as an established historical fact by researchers (and officials of Russia’s
Tsyrempilov Nikolay V.
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
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Structure of Forest-steppe Vegetation of Small Khamar- Daban Foothills (Western Transbaikalia) [PDF]
Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2014 The characteristic aspects of the structure of vegetation of the forest-steppe of Khamar-Daban are studied. The authors made the detailed large-scale geobotanical map of vegetation (1:25000, 1:100000) on the basis of satellite ...
S. A. Kholboeva +2 more
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The Mirror of Wisdom by Ven. E.-Kh. Galshiev: Woman in Buddhist Contexts and Teachings
Oriental Studies, 2022 Introduction. The image of woman in Buryat literature had been created under the influence of Buddhist patriarchal views which led to discrimination against the former and humiliation of female nature in religious and social life.
Zhargal A. Aiakova
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Мiryachit: A Culture‐Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, Volume 12, Issue 6, Page 807-816, June 2025.Abstract Background Miryachit is perhaps the most complex and least understood of the culture‐specific startle syndromes that include latah and the jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Objectives We carried out a field study to evaluate startle‐induced paroxysms in the Saami to determine if it is still endemic and, if so, to contrast it with the available ...
Marianna Selikhova +3 more
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Gunshot wounds to animals [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesGunshot injuries are quite common in various animal species. In 40.0% of cases, this type of damage was detected on the corpses of roe deer, in 26.67% of cases, damage was noted on the corpses of Manchurian elk, 13.33% of cases were registered in horses ...
Khankhasykov S.P. +2 more
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Text, time, and travel: temporal pathways of postsocialism and Islam
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 217-239, March 2025.Abstract As the concept of postsocialism faces increased scrutiny, there is a call to expand its spatiotemporal scope beyond socialist contexts in order to reclaim its analytical capacity. In Azerbaijan, the quiet resurgence of tezkirahs – biographical anthologies rooted in both the Islamic and Soviet traditions – presents an opportunity to explore how
Serkan Yolaçan
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