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Ribbon graphs and bialgebra of Lagrangian subspaces

, 2016
To each ribbon graph we assign a so-called L-space, which is a Lagrangian subspace in an even-dimensional vector space with the standard symplectic form. This invariant generalizes the notion of the intersection matrix of a chord diagram.
Kleptsyn, Victor, Smirnov, Evgeny
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The Courtroom Sketch: Journalism and Justice in Literaturnaia gazeta

The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 52-68, January 2026.
Abstract In the decades following Stalin’s death, the newspaper Literaturnaia gazeta shaped Soviet legal culture through the genre of the courtroom sketch (sudebnyi ocherk), a blend of fact‐based reportage, personal memoir, literary narration, and social commentary aimed at the task of working through thorny questions of morality and legality.
Rebecca Reich
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Poverty and Economic Growth in Russia’s Regions [PDF]

, 2009
The extent of poverty reduction has varied enormously during the recovery period across the eighty-three regions of Russia, with some regions continuing to experience increases in poverty even though they have returned to growth. We attempt to understand
Mosley, P., Mussurov, A.
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Rational quintics in the real plane

, 2017
From a topological viewpoint, a rational curve in the real projective plane is generically a smoothly immersed circle and a finite collection of isolated points.
Itenberg, I., Mikhalkin, G., Rau, J.
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Shadow Education in the Soviet and Post‐Soviet Eras: A Political‐Economic Analysis of Changing Tides

European Journal of Education, Volume 60, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the shadow education system of private supplementary tutoring, this paper contains comparisons over time and place in the distinctive circumstances of the Soviet Union and the 15 independent countries that emerged following its collapse in 1991. The paper uses the lenses of politics and economics to understand changing tides in the
Mark Bray, Tatiana Mikhaylova
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Video Assistant Referee(ndums): A Populist Weapon or Effective Tool to Stop Autocrats in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America?

Latin American Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, video assistant referee systems have been increasingly used to correct unfair decisions in sports. Similarly, I argue that constitutional referendums play a corrective role in hybrid or competitive authoritarian regimes, where the electoral referee is biased and the government enjoys unfair advantages.
Muhammet Derviş Mete
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A Turning Point: past and future of the European Community's relations with Eastern Europe. Biblio-Flash No 24, 1989 [PDF]

, 1989
The signature on 25 June 1988 in Luxembourg of the EEC-CMEA (1) Joint Declaration, of which a text is annexed to this article, marked the establishment of official relations between the European Community and the CMEA and at the same time gave the ...
Maslen, John
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Putinism and Markets: How (and Why) Do They Fit Together?

The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 4, Page 628-645, October 2025.
Abstract In Russia, positive attitudes toward a free market economy and competition are firmly associated with the “Western” intellectual imports the country experienced in the 1990s. Anti‐Western intellectuals and politicians typically embrace an anti‐market stance calling for an economy with greater level of governmental interventions.
Alexander Libman
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THE EUROPEAN COIIMUNITY AND EAST-WEST COOPERATION. International Herald Tribune Conference, "The Soviet Union in the 1990s" Moscow, 8 June 1989 [PDF]

, 1989
As the world's largest and most open trading partner, the European Community has a crucial role to play In the far reaching changes now occurring In the International system .
Andriessen, F.H.J.J.
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The Recriminalization of Homosexuality under Stalin: New Sources, New Answers

The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 4, Page 660-680, October 2025.
Abstract Drawing on newly uncovered archival and printed sources, this article offers a fresh perspective on the recriminalization of homosexuality under Stalin by challenging key assumptions in existing historiography. It demonstrates that the OGPU did not actively advocate for new anti‐sodomy legislation. Although Leningrad homosexuals had been under
Irina Roldugina
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