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Perestroika – the Nazarbayev way. Crisis and reforms in Kazakhstan. OSW Point of View Number 58 June 2016 [PDF]
, 2016 Kazakhstan is a unique country in the post-Soviet area. Governed by an authoritarian regime and widely thought to be a close ally of Russia, the country has been making efforts to modernise and has been searching for new development models free of Soviet
Jarosiewicz, Aleksandra
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, 2016 Kazakhstan (the Republic of Kazakhstan) is the largest country in Central Asia and the ninth largest in the world in area. It has a population of 18,157,122 (2015 estimate), and a territory of 2,727,300 square kilometers, bordered on the north by Russia,
Menga, Filippo
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Career Sustainability Profiles of Self‐Initiated Expatriates and Associated Person‐Related Factors
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The increasingly volatile global working environment poses particular challenges for self‐initiated expatriates (SIEs), who often lack formal organizational support and must manage their careers independently. However, research on SIEs has largely focused on single international experiences or specific stages of the expatriation cycle, thereby
Shaofang Zong +2 more
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Kazakh and Russian identities in transition : the case of Kazakhstan
, 2011 This dissertation concerns the development and interaction of Kazakh and Russian identities in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. My research questions were: (1) what was the character of these identities in 2003/04 (the time of my research); (2) how have these ...
Howard, Natalia V.
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the factors influencing producer adoption of cover cropping and no‐till farming, two key carbon sequestration practices, within the context of voluntary carbon credit programmes (CCPs) in Kansas. Using a mixed‐methods survey that combines discrete choice experiments with farm‐level data from 370 producers, we estimate ...
Grant Edward Gardner +2 more
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Deadly Anchor: Gender Bias under Russian Colonization of Kazakhstan, 1898-1908 [PDF]
We study the impact of a large-scale economic crisis on gender equality, using historical data from Kazakhstan in the late 19th – early 20th century. We focus on sex ratios (number of women per man) in Kazakh nomadic population between 1898 and 1908, in ...
Catherine Guirkinger, Gani Aldashev
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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PRELIMINARY DATA ON SPIDERS FAUNA (ARANEI) OF PROTECTED AREAS IN KOSTANAY REGION (KAZAKHSTAN)
Юг России: экология, развитие, 2015 Aim. Fauna of Kazakhstan includes about one thousand species of spiders according to the latest data (Logunov, Gromov, Timokhanov, 2012; Mikhailov, 2013). However, most of these data refers to the western and eastern regions of the country. Spiders fauna
A. V. Ponomarev, T. M. Bragina
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This study presents a scenario-based assessment of the future sensitivity of minimal low-water runoff to climate change in Western Kazakhstan. An ensemble of global climate models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), combined ...
Javier Rodrigo-Ilarri +15 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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