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Early identification of threats as the means of fighting against hybrid warfare (with a focus on the south Caucasus)

Social Development & Security, 2020
Early identification of the most recent hybrid threats (incident at Keshikchidag, the escalation in the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in July 2020, etc.) in the South Caucasus, enabled the nations to sidestep the repercussions of the provocation,
Khayal Iskandarov, Piotr Gawliczek
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Examining the use of informal networks by NGOs in Azerbaijan and Georgia [PDF]

, 2015
To date little is known about the non-governmental organizations' (NGOs) use of informal networks, contacts and connections, as well as about the ‘informalization’ of post-communist civil society in the former Soviet Union.
Aliyev, Huseyn
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Human adaptation to high‐altitude: A contemporary comparison of the oxygen cascade in Andean, Tibetan and Ethiopian highlanders

Experimental 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, Melissa Ilardo, Joshua C. Tremblay, Jay M. J. R. Carr, Vitalie Faoro, Philip N. Ainslie   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discourse of macro-regional identity in the North Caucasus (based on the official telegram channels of the Heads of Regions and the Russian President’s Plenipotentiary Representative in the North Caucasus Federal District)

RUDN journal of Sociology
The article focuses on the insufficient development of ideas about the macroregional North Caucasian identity in both public policy and academic field. Macro-regional identity is considered a result of spatial-territorial identification, characterized by
I. V. Kireeva, E. S. Kukva, Z. A. Zhade
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FOOD CRISIS IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS IN THE MIDDLE OF 1930 AND ITS IMPACT ON RELATIONS BETWEEN AUTHORITES AND PEASANT POPULATION

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article studies the main causes of food supply crisis as regards the population of the North Caucasus in the summer of 1930. It shows their influence on the formation of Soviet agrarian relations in the region.
Z. A. Bondar
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Time for Action: Incidents of Discrimination in Russian Football [PDF]

, 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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Transmission routes of African swine fever virus to domestic pigs: current knowledge and future research directions [PDF]

, 2016
African swine fever (ASF) is a major threat to the pig industry in Europe. Since 2007, ASF outbreaks have been ongoing in the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries, causing severe economic losses for many pig farmers and pork producers.
BALDACCHINO, BLOME, BOINAS, COSTARD, DAVIES, DE CARVALHO FERREIRA, DE CARVALHO FERREIRA, DE CARVALHO FERREIRA, DE CARVALHO FERREIRA, DIAZ, EC, EC, EC, EC, EC, EFSA, EU, FAO, FAO, GABRIEL, GALLARDO, GALLARDO, GALLARDO, GOGIN, GREIG, GREIG, GUINAT, GUINAT, GULENKIN, HAAS, HEUSCHELE, HOWEY, IGLESIAS, KAGIRA, LANGE, MANZANO-ROMÁN, MCKERCHER, MCVICAR, MEBUS, MEBUS, MELLOR, MONTGOMERY, OGANESYAN, OIE, PARKER, PHENGSAVANH, PIETSCHMANN, PLOWRIGHT, PLOWRIGHT, PLOWRIGHT, ROWLANDS, SANCHEZ BOTIJA, SANCHEZ BOTIJA, SODEIKAT, THOMSON, THURFJELL, TURNER, VERGNE, VERGNE, VLASOVA, WILKINSON   +60 more
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Postcolonial transitions on the southern borders of the former Soviet Union: the return of Eurasianism? [PDF]

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

Ecology 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, Çağatay Tavşanoğlu   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Foreign Policy of Russia and the United States of America in the South Caucasus Region (2004-2024) [PDF]

The Review of International Affairs
The Caucasus region has received less attention from Eurasian scholars and policymakers in recent years due to the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine and the turmoil in the West Asian region.
Daniyal Rezapour
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