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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Interpretations of Horse Coat Color Names
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article describes the interpretation system of the lexical units denoting the color coat of the horse in the Kalmyk language. It contains a table of lexical units denoting the color coat of horses with their interpretation, translations, synonyms ...
S. E. Bachaeva
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The end of “Eskimo land”: Yupik relocation in Chukotka, 1958-1959 [PDF]
, 2007 Fifty years ago, in summer 1958, Russian authorities started a program of massive relocation of the Yupik population on the Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia. About 800 people, or roughly 70% of the small nation of 1,100 at that time, were forced to leave their
Chlenov, Mikhail, Krupnik, Igor
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Translation and linguistic innovation : the rise and fall of Russian loanwords in literary translation into Dutch [PDF]
, 2011 This paper examines the use of Russian loanwords in Dutch translations of Russian literary texts from the period 1970-2009. In an increasingly globalized world, as more information is exchanged across cultural borders worldwide, one might expect a growth
Van Poucke, Piet
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New species and records of Stenus (Nestus) of the canaliculatus group, with the erection of a new species group (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Steninae) [PDF]
, 2012 The canaliculatus species group of Stenus (Nestus) is redefined. Four new Palaearctic species of the group are described and illustrated: S. (N.) alopex sp. nov. from the Putorana Highland and Taymyr Peninsula, Russia; S. (N.) canalis sp. nov.
Ryvkin, Alexandr Borisovich
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Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe
, 2015 We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000-3,000 years ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost four hundred thousand polymorphisms. Enrichment of these positions decreases the sequencing required for
A Keller +81 more
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From empire to multilateral player: the deep roots of autonomy in Russia [PDF]
, 2015 This chapter focuses on Russia’s unlikely experiment in national cultural autonomy (NCA). I start with Russia’s accession to the Council of Europe (CoE) and the start of its experiment in NCA, both of which took place in 1996.
Bowring, Bill
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Male feathered headwear of 13th-14th centuries [PDF]
, 2017 The article considers Mongol male feathered headwear of 13th-14th centuries discovered at various archaeological sites to determine the validity and diversity of the research subject.
Maklasova, Lyudmila E. +1 more
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article describes chronological characteristics of the written monuments in «Сlear Script». The development process of the peculiar Oirat (Kalmyk) literature, written in «Clear Script» can be divided into two periods.
E. Bembeev
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Kalmyk Movable Types Made in Saint Petersburg
МонголоведениеIntroduction. In the 19th and early 20th centuries a considerable number of books, articles, brochures and commercial advertisements in the Kalmyk language were printed in Russia using the movable type of the font known as the “clear script”.
Vladimir L. Uspensky +1 more
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