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A Privilege That Can Be Withdrawn: Regulation of Exit in Russia and Other Post‐Soviet Republics
International Migration, Volume 64, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT The former Soviet Union's restrictions on citizens' foreign travel or emigration were notoriously draconian. Yet what replaced them in the fifteen independent states of the post‐Soviet region has not been well analysed. Outside the Baltic republics, the monolithic and prohibitive policies of the Soviet past have given way to a patchwork of ...
Matthew Light, Leonid Kosals
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Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh: unfrozen conflicts between Russia and the West. OSW Special Report, 9 July 2008 [PDF]
, 2008 The Southern Caucasus is the site of three armed conflicts with separatist backgrounds, which have remained unsolved for years: the conflicts in Georgia's Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Azerbaijan's conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh (including the areas ...
Bartuzi, Wojciech +4 more
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 4, Page 593-611, October 2025.Abstract Putinist ideology is not merely a project of a narrow political elite, but rather a set of ideas that hold domestic appeal. The ideologized vision of Russia fighting for its rightful place in the international arena has resonated with mass social grievances created by the fall of the USSR.
Alicja Curanović
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Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 422-442, July 2025.Abstract This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on ...
Sayana Namsaraeva, Vitaly Tsytsykov
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Trends in demographic processes in the Republic of South Ossetia in the post-war period since 2008
Вестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университетаIntroduction. Military actions, leading to mass migration and increased mortality, have a significant impact on the number and structure of the population of the states in which they take place.
O. A. Chochieva +2 more
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Hope and Distress: A Cross‐Country Study Amid the Russian‐Ukrainian War
Stress and Health, Volume 41, Issue 2, April 2025.ABSTRACT Conflict deeply affects human experiences, frequently testing individual resilience to its breaking point and leaving enduring psychological and societal wounds. The current conflict in Ukraine, initiated by Russia's invasion in 2022, illustrates this phenomenon by altering regional relationships and triggering a major humanitarian crisis ...
Simon Esbit +19 more
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Illusion of Power: Russia after the South Caucasus Battle. CEPS Working Document No. 311, 24 February 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 The war in the South Caucasus sent shockwaves throughout the post-Soviet world, European capitals and across the Atlantic, making more urgent the demand for a re-evaluation of policies towards Russia.
Secrieru, Stanislav.
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Networks of persistence: A new framework for protracted displacement from a Georgian lens
International Migration, Volume 62, Issue 6, Page 211-233, December 2024.Abstract Millions of internally displaced people are living in their own countries in a temporary status called ‘protracted displacement’, a term not without its debates. We use a social network analysis database to assess how social interactions and demographic characteristics, including the relative location of resettlement, may contribute to IDP ...
Jared R. Dmello, Beth Mitchneck
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Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The aim of the study is the formation of knowledge about the state and guarantee of the human right to education to develop recommendations for use in the actual integration of educational spaces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of South ...
E. Tereshchenko, D. Zaseev
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