This paper presents a corpus analysis of the addresses that the leaders of the Soviet Union and Russia deliver every year before the New Year. The content of a New Year address is strongly codified and usually contains references to important events of the previous year. Analysis of the ways that the lexical patterns used in the New Year addresses are transformed and follow changes that have oc...

The computational viral extension direct and inverse problems are problems of long-standing interest in mathematics, epidemic and natural disaster studies. We designed and developed a set of algorithms for the construction of the closure of the arbitrary chaotic set that can efficiently be used in evaluations of the propagations autooscillatory waves. The algorithms presented in this paper are ...

J udging from some of the titles of recent books on Russia—for example, Richard Sakwa’s The Crisis of Russian Democracy, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova’s Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism inside Russia, and Tom Remington’s The Politics of Inequality in Russia—all is not well 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Corruption abounds, and state institutions are weak where they should be...