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Perestroikas of Shocks and Singularities of Minimum Functions
The shock discontinuities, generically present in inviscid solutions of the forced Burgers equation, and their bifurcations happening in the course of time (perestroikas) are classified in two and three dimensions -- the one-dimensional case is well ...
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Shadow Education in the Soviet and Post‐Soviet Eras: A Political‐Economic Analysis of Changing Tides
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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The Tower of Babel in the Yevhen Sverstyuk’s Symbolic Space
The essayistic heritage of Yevhen Sverstyuk is revealed over time in its prognostic potential. This makes his works relevant to reading in the context of civilizational confrontations of our days.
Ihor Isichenko
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Beyond Socio-Historical Trauma with Olga Zhukova and Iskra Babich [PDF]
Cinematography of perestroika (and the early post-Soviet period) entails mixed terrain, often described as a socially-critical “black wave” – chernukha; the period saw an unprecedented number of works by female directors, which remain to be addressed by ...
Natalija Majsova
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Everyday Ethnicity and Popular Responses to Nation-Building Projects in Moldova After 1989
This introductory article highlights the main developments in the Republic of Moldova from the breakup of the Soviet Union to the present from the perspective of national sentiment and manifestations.
Negură Petru, Suveica Svetlana
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Poverty and Economic Growth in Russia’s Regions [PDF]
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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Ribbon graphs and bialgebra of Lagrangian subspaces
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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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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The historiography of changes in the income of the Russian population in the 1980s–1990s
Importance. The relevance of studying the dynamics of income of the population in Russia during the 1980s and 1990s is largely determined by the impact of this transitional period on contemporary society.
A. N. Klimonova
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Putinism and Markets: How (and Why) Do They Fit Together?
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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