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Demographic Research, 2017 Background: While the health crisis in the former USSR has been well-documented in the case of Russia and other northern former Soviet republics, little is known about countries located in the southern tier of the region, i.e., the Caucasus and Central ...
Géraldine Duthé +8 more
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Age and gender bias in Russia’s assistance to forced migrants? [PDF]
Forced Migration Review, 2004 Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, more thanthree million Russians and members of other ethnicgroups have left the other former Soviet republics totake up residence in the Russian Federation.
Larisa Kosygina
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“Nature caprices are finally defeated!”: reclamation politics and practices in Latvia during the era of modernism [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2019 Soviet agro-polders, as ideological and highly technological assemblies, were among the first ones to signify the productivism era in the rural landscape of the Baltic republics and the modernisation of Soviet agriculture there. At the time of autocratic
Zariņa Anita, Vinogradovs Ivo
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Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2022 The article introduces the prospects of cooperative co-existence for Russia and the European Union in former Soviet republics within the current confrontation paradigm.
R. G. Elamiryan
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Development of the production of lead and precious metals in Central Asia [PDF]
Podzemni Radovi, 2014 There were several rich deposits of polymetal ores of non-ferrous and precious metals in the region of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. Metallurgical production of these metals was developed even a thousand years ago and was in the top of the world ...
Nikolić Branislav +3 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels +4 more
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Journal of the Academy of Business and Emerging Markets, 2023 This study investigates differences in customer satisfaction between post-Soviet and Western tourists' perceptions of hotel service quality. Because of the post-USSR split in tourists, the West has divergent experiences in developing their services ...
Leila Shora, Nurym Shora
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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The US Power Projection in the Post-Soviet Space: Policies and Practices [PDF]
The Review of International AffairsThe article analyses the US policies in the post-Soviet space as an example of how a great power can stimulate specific political order in a region.
Alexey A. Davydov
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