with the collapse of soviet :union:, central asian countries came into independence. the countries were neglected by russia during the first years after their formation. this encouraged other regional and trans-regional powers to interfere in the region and try to maximize their interests. shifting its foreign-policy process, russia kept its eyes on look-east policy and tried to prevent others ...

1 Division of Experimental and Clinical Cardiology, Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases under the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Kemerovo, Russia 2 Department of Epidemiology, Kemerovo State Medical Academy, Kemerovo, Russia 3 Central Research Laboratory, Kemerovo State Medical Academy, Kemerovo, Russia 4 Department of Oncology, Cancer R...

YURI M. MARUSIK & MIKHAIL M. OMELKO 1Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Portovaya Street 18, Magadan 685000, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 2Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland 3Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa 4Gornotaezhnaya Station FEB RAS, Gornotaezhnoe Vil., Ussuriyski Dist., Primorski...

Second, Russia benefits from high commodity prices and the increasing dependence on oil and gas by Western countries. In the year 2006, Russia expected a balance of trade surplus of several billion Rubles. This has also positive effects on average salaries. As most of salaries and wages are paid without taxes (on the black market), people get gross for net salary. Instead of generating deficits...

A. Aragoneses, 2 L. Carpi, N. Tarasov, 4 D. V. Churkin, 5, 6 M. C. Torrent, C. Masoller, and S. K. Turitsyn Departament de F́ısica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08222 Terrassa, Spain Duke University, Physics Department, Box 90305, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, UK Institute for Computational Technologies...

1 Nonlinear Physics Centre and Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia 2 MQ Photonics Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, Australia 3 ITMO University, 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia 4 Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Scien...

BACKGROUND The official statistics of persons with mental disorders who are granted disability pension (DP) in Russia and Norway indicate large differences between the countries. METHODS This qualitative explorative hypothesis-generating study is based on text analysis of the laws, regulations and guidelines, and qualitative interviews of informants representing all the organisational element...

From the Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 123182 Russia, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, Waksman Institute for Microbiology, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of ...

Anastasia S. Likhacheva1, Valeriy P. Nikolin1, Nelly A. Popova1, Vladimir A. Rogachev1, Maria A. Prokhorovich1, Tamara E. Sebeleva1, Sergei S. Bogachev1,2,*, Mikhail A. Shurdov2 Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 10 Lavrentieva ave, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia; LLC Panagen, 29 Choros-Gurkina street, Gorno-Altaisk, 649000, Russia _____________...

1 Controlled Photobiosynthesis Laboratory, Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow 127276, Russia. 2 Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region 142290, Russia. 3 Department Center for Nanofibers and Nanotechnology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117576...