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Online deviance in post-Soviet space: Victimisation, perceptions and social attitudes amongst young people, an Armenian case study

Digital Geography and Society
This paper presents a survey-based case study of the experiences and perceptions of, and attitudes towards, various forms of online deviance amongst a largely female, educated sample of young people drawn predominantly from the Armenian capital city of ...
Tim Hall, Ulrike Ziemer
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The Pubs оf Yerevan аs Spaces оf Post-Soviet Transformation

Banber Erevani Hamalsarani. Sots'iologia, 2020
The article describes a study conducted in Yerevan (Armenia) of pubs as a specific urban space formed in the post-Soviet period. The aim of the study was to identify the codes of the post-Soviet transformation.
Lilit Babayan
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Technopolitical Energy Governance as Administrative Closure: Digitalisation and the Depoliticisation of Energy Politics in Iran and Saudi Arabia

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digitalisation is widely framed as a route to more efficient and participatory public administration. In authoritarian settings, however, digital governance often works less as administrative improvement than as a technopolitical instrument for managing dissent and insulating policy from contestation.
Arash Beidollahkhani
wiley   +1 more source

“This Is Who I Would Become”: Russian Jewish Immigrants and Their Encounters with Chabad-Lubavitch in the Greater Toronto Area

Canadian Jewish Studies, 2020
Since the early 1970s, the Chabad Lubavitch movement has served as an important setting for religious, social, and cultural activity among Russian-speaking Jewish migrants to Canada and the United States.
Joshua Tapper
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Journal Issue - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 1:2 - Back From Afghanistan

, 2016
SPECIAL ISSUE: BACK FROM AFGHANISTAN With contributions by: Felix Ackermann, Jan C. Behrends, Michael Galbas, Markus Göransson, Anna Reich, Yaacov Ro’i, Iryna Sklokina http://www.ibidemverlag.de/Reihen-Schriftenreihen-Institutsreihen/Journal-of-Soviet ...
Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
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Clarifying Public Policy for Stronger Public Administration in Development

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public policy is ubiquitous, yet its meaning is often unclear. This ambiguity is not just conceptual. Because policy work is a large part of what public administrations do, how we define policy shapes how we structure and organize our administrative mechanisms.
Matt Andrews
wiley   +1 more source

Majorities and minorities in the Post-Soviet space: Continuity and change

, 2018
The concepts of ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ are challenging terms to define in a clear and precise manner, especially in the unique environments of post-Soviet space.
Prina, Federica, Berdiqulov, Aziz
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King, Martin R. McAinsh, Michael R. Roberts   +2 more
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Interaction of the European and post-Soviet economic integration in Eastern Europe [PDF]

The aim of the paper is to understand the specifics of the interaction of two models of regional economic integration co-existing in Eastern Europe: the post-Soviet integration and the cooperation with the EU.
Libman, Alexander
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Sustainable Development and Structural Bottlenecks in Transition Economies: New Uzbekistan

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study assesses the sustainable development of Uzbekistan over 2016–2024. The methodology combines min–max normalization and unweighted aggregation to derive goal‐level composite scores and an overall SDG index, correlation analysis, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to characterize the goals that shape the country's progress; key ...
Khusanboy Abdufattokhov, Yulduz Salakhutdinova   +1 more
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