I recently visited the Soviet Union. I was there for only one week, as a tourist: time to get only a very limited and superficial impression of life there. Nevertheless, it was a sobering and thought-provoking experience. For even such a brief visit forces one to confront the problems raised by the evidently unideal character of the Soviet Union and other ̀ actually existing' socialist societies...

In the article, based on FAO data and guided by personal experience in Joint Commission established accordance with Article 9 "Agreement between Government of Union Soviet Socialist Republics People's Republic China cooperation field fisheries", signed October 4, 1988. The Agreement is main basic legal instrument that allows solving all issues, both current prospective, development relations Ru...

Central Asia is a vast geographic region that includes five former Soviet Union republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The region has a unique infectious disease burden, and a history that includes Silk Road trade routes and networks that were part of the anti-plague and biowarfare programs in the former Soviet Union. Post-Soviet Union biosurveillance resea...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union sovereign Islamic states arose in the traditional Islamic regions of the USSR, although Islam was not declared to be an official or state religion in the constitutions of these states, since, as before, religion was separated from the state. These states were: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. With the exception o...

This publication is a result of interviews carried out at the end November-beginning December 2021 in areas along border between Poland and Belarus with Roman Catholic priests providing pastoral ministry that area. The aim was to gain insight into social moods attitudes clergy respect migration crisis year 2021. It may be guessed from borderland parishes are more prone thinking about community ...

this research seeks to study the impact of pan-turkist ideology on central asia. the collapse of the soviet :union: and independence of the central asian and caucasian states once again revitalized hopes among the pan-turkist theoreticians and strategists who were hopeless about the implementation of their project of establishing a turkic empire in the southern parts of the soviet :union:. cons...