Sebastian Fiedler,1 Thomas Bathon,2 Sergey V. Eremeev,3,4,5 Oleg E. Tereshchenko,5,6,7 Konstantin A. Kokh,5,7,8 Evgueni V. Chulkov,4,5,9,10 Paolo Sessi,2 Hendrik Bentmann,1,* Matthias Bode,2 and Friedrich Reinert1 1Experimentelle Physik VII and Röntgen Research Center for Complex Materials (RCCM), Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany 2Experimentelle Physik II and Röntgen ...

russia as an important trans-regional and revived power in the global scene has taken a different approach toward syrian crisis from of western and arabian countries; a strategy that is based on steadfast diplomatic and military support from assad regime. as a basic and core question, we ask why russia has taken a strategy toward syrian crisis different from that of western and arabian countrie...

This paper deals with analysis of conflict interaction between business and power in Russia The main purpose is to analyze features of the institutional environment of this conflict. Another purpose of the paper is to analyze several concepts of the conflict studies for their usefulness in examination of the relationship between business and authorities in post-Soviet Russia. The use of all the...

Alexander N. Kapustin*, Natalia Kalinina, Tatiana Lopatina, Sean M. Davidson, Nunzio Iraci, Svetlana Tamkovich, Lesley Smyth, Dmitry Ter-Ovanesyan, Evgeniy G. Evtushenko, Olga Savelieva, Sergio Bertazzo, Vassiliy Aushev, Rebecca Dragovic, Tannia Gracia, Margarete Heck, Yelena V. Parfyonova, Catherine M. Shanahan and Vsevolod Tkachuk Cardiovascular Division, King’s College London, London, UK; Fa...

PURPOSE The LEUKOSPECT study aimed to describe health service utilization and to estimate the direct medical costs (DMCs) of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 2013 in the adult population of three post-Soviet countries - Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. As oncologic medical care is provided by federal state-owned, specialized medical institutions, the cost estimation in this study primarily...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the mortality reached 1.807.400 people in 1992, with the birthrate falling to 1.587.600 people. The process of depopulation began. Nearly 2 million people died annually in Russia according to the official data of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service in 1993-2010. A special and a very serious problem is a middle-aged men mortality that is 7-...

BACKGROUND High violent mortality rate in Russia and its profound fluctuation over recent decades have attracted considerable interest. A mounting body of evidence points to the binge drinking pattern as a potentially important contributor to the violent mortality crisis in Russia. In line with this evidence, we assume that higher level of vodka consumption in conjunction with binge drinking pa...

iran has the longest political relations with russia among other great powers. this relation is resulted from neighborhood, trade, and cultural and racial factors between iran's people with some of the russia’s independent republics. purchasing of weapons by iran and participations of the soviet :union: in economic projects of iran helped the strengthening of the relations between the two ...

after the cold war and collapse of the bipolar system, the european :union: found more opportunity to play a role in regional and international arenas. on the other hand, russia was searching for a new status due to its widespread developments. changing the status of international system, emergence of new and powerful actors, expansion of the european :union: to the east and bordering with russ...

from 2006 to 2008 russian government adopted an aggressive foreign policy toward the west, particularly the united states. in this article, the author claims that one should search for the main factor in the ‘feeling danger in the european borders of russia’ and more clearly in ‘serious endangering of european balance of power’ from the perspective of russian authorities after 60 years. i have ...