Background: The Slavic countries of the former Soviet Union (fSU) Russia, Belarus and Ukraine retain one of the highest ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality rates in the world, despite a gradual decline over the past decade Aims: The present study aims to analyze whether population drinking is able to explain the dramatic fluctuations in IHD mortality rates in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine from...

Background: The Slavic countries of the former Soviet Union (fSU) Russia, Belarus and Ukraine retain one of the highest suicide rates in the world, despite a gradual decline over the past decade. Aims: The present study aims to analyze whether population drinking is able to explain the dramatic fluctuations in suicide mortality in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine from the late Soviet to post-Soviet ...

BACKGROUND An economic value calculation was performed to estimate the lifetime net present value of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. METHODS Net lifetime tax revenues were used to represent governmental benefits accruing from a hypothetical cohort of an IVF population born in 2009 using the methodology of generational accounting. Governmental expenses related...

1 Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V., Dresden, Germany, 2 Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaft, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 3 Advanced Materials Division, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Suzhou, China, 4 “V. A. Bely” Metal-Polymer Research Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Gomel, Belarus, 5 Center for Composite Materials, Un...

This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization process in a specific Eastern European country in transition towards market economy, namely, the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR period and the years since independence revealed that unlike its close neighbors (the Baltic States a...

Advanced Photonics Laboratory, Institute of Applied Optics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. Dpto. Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. International Laser Center, Belarus State Polytechnical Academy, Minsk, Belarus. *Present address: Fukuda Laboratory, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Toho...

This article explores how the Russia-Belarus relationship has countered external forces that have been shown to promote democratization. It seeks to answer the following questions: According to the democratization literature, what external factors make democratization more likely? How have RussiaBelarus ties countered these factors? And, how best can the United States and the European Union pro...

We propose a systematic study of Bose-Einstein correlations between identical hadrons coming from different W decays. Experimentally accessible signatures of these correlations as well as of possible color reconnection effects are discussed on the basis of two-particle inclusive densities. 1 On leave from the Institute of Physics, AS of Belarus, Skaryna av.70, Minsk 220072, Belarus. Onderzoeksd...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Harmful alcohol consumption has long been recognized as being the major determinant of male premature mortality in the European countries of the former USSR. Our focus here is on Belarus and Russia, two Slavic countries which continue to suffer enormously from the burden of the harmful consumption of alcohol. However, after a long period of deterioration, mortality trends in ...

Organizers: Tomasz Kalicki, Institute of Geography, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland/Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland Bartłomiej Szmoniewski, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland Valentina P. Zernitskaya, Institute for Problems of Natural Resources Use and Ecology, National Academy o...