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Nation‐Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation‐building strategies in post‐Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation‐Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically ...
Emre Amasyalı, Andrei Tarasov
wiley   +1 more source

Time for Action: Incidents of Discrimination in Russian Football [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This monitoring report presents the first ever systematic assessment of the problem of racism and discrimination in Russian football. Prepared as a joint undertaking of the Moscow-based SOVA Center for Information and Analysis and the Fare network, it ...

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Beyond Genocide, Ethnocide and Identicide: Russia's ‘Strategic Imperial Demographic Policy’ of Russifying Ukrainian Children

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Russian Federation's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken from occupied territories and transferred to Russia. On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court officially recognized these actions as a war crime.
Ayşegül Aydıngün   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human adaptation to high‐altitude: A contemporary comparison of the oxygen cascade in Andean, Tibetan and Ethiopian highlanders

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Human populations native to high altitude have evolved distinct physiological adaptations to chronic hypoxia. This adaptation is evident in the O2 transport cascade. In this review, with brief inclusion of the related genetic adaptations, we compare the O2 cascade across three well‐characterized high‐altitude populations: Andeans (Aymara and ...
Ayechew A. Getu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prefractal as the source of new rational approximations of functions with a fractal representation

open access: yesНаука. Инновации. Технологии, 2022
The Article is devoted to the problem of accelerating the convergence of polynomial and rational approximations of functions. In the theory of approximation of functions often used the idea of reducing the interval change in the argument as a method to ...
Petr Kirillovich Korneev   +4 more
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Postcolonial transitions on the southern borders of the former Soviet Union: the return of Eurasianism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
As the Soviet Union dissolved into a new territorial reality, it released the doubly repressed histories of Tsarist and Soviet imperium. In the states to the south of the new Russian Federation, the post-soviet jostled with the postcolonial as nations ...
Bowring, Bill
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Defected and loyal? A case study of counter-defection mechanisms inside Chechen paramilitaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Can former insurgents in the service of counterinsurgent paramilitaries be considered a perfectly loyal force? What mechanisms may help to deter subsequent defections of individuals who have already “betrayed” once?
Aliyev, Huseyn   +2 more
core   +1 more source

THE BIOTECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF WHEY PROTEINS HYDROLYSATE ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY INCREASING IN THE DIGESTION MODEL

open access: yesСовременная наука и инновации, 2022
In the modeling of digestion using the complex of pepsin and pancreatin on protein substrates (KSB80, ISB90, ISB95) the most antioxidant activity have demonstrated ISB95 in a minimal time (30 minutes), which allows using it as a functional additive for ...
Elena Vladimirovna Budkevich   +4 more
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The Alans North of the Caucasus

open access: yesAnnali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 2022
The Alans, an Iranian-speaking people attested in the chronicles of the ancient world from the first century AD, played an important role in the Caucasian region until the Mongol invasion. They lived in the plains north of the mountain ridge, but after the Mongol invasion and the emergence of the Kabardian power in the region, they moved more and more ...
openaire   +1 more source

Oaks and Climate Change: Contrasting Range Responses of Mediterranean and Temperate Quercus Species in the Western Palearctic

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.
We analyzed past and future range dynamics of six oak (Quercus) species across the western Palearctic using ecological niche models, reconstructing distributions for the Last Glacial Maximum, the present, and two future scenarios. Quantitative metrics of centroid shifts, range limits, and area change revealed that temperate and transition‐zone species ...
Elif Deniz Ülker   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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