Calculation and Analysis of Specific Losses of Active Power in Overhead Power Lines due to Corona in View of Climatic Data by D. A. Sekatski, N. A. Papkova

“…In the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), based on field tests and experimental data, recommendations were developed for accounting for losses of electric energy due to corona and interference in overhead lines, the average values of which were given in the relevant instruction for the regulation and justification of the norm of electricity consumption for its transmission over electric networks. …”
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INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY IN THE ENERGY SECTOR: THE EASTERN EUROPEAN MARKET OF ATOMIC ENERGY IN FOCUS by Y. V. Borovsky

“…The second goal is to become suppliers of nuclear fuel for multiple Russian- or Soviet-made VVER-type reactors, which are functioning or will be run in a number of countries in the region (Slovakia,CzechRepublic,Hungary,Bulgaria, andUkraine). …”
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Securitization of China in the NATO discourse in the late 2010s— early 2020s: Towards a global collective identity by Yu. Yu. Melnikova

“…The author shows that during the Cold War, when NATO positioned itself as a military-political alliance aimed at deterring the ‘Soviet threat’, the alliance’s relations with China developed steadily and constructively despite political and ideological differences. …”
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Finland’s Policy towards the Russian Federation under M. Ahtisaari (1994–2000): A Cognitive Approach by D. G. Romanov

“…It was considered as a primary means of the EU-Russia rapprochement aimed at enhancing political dialogue and increasing economic cooperation between them, as well as at promoting reforms in the post-Soviet Russia.…”
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Neutrality or Involvement? World War II and Evolution of Foreign Policy Concepts of the Nordic Countries by E. V. Korunova

“…In the final section, the paper examines the reaction to this project of the Scandinavian countries, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain. …”
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Lithuania's Image in Modem History Schoolbooks of Russia by Nerijus Šepetys

“…In Russian schoolbooks of modern history, two passages are granted exceptional attention: the events related to the circumstances and results of the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Overall, these schoolbooks comprehend a wide variety of material concerning the "Lithuanian question": objective and unfair exposition of major factual data, conscious and unconscious veilings, multiperspective and one-sided interpretations, neutral and subtle misrepresentations. …”
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Models of Historical Memory and past Representation of Vilnius University in the 19th-20th Centuries by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“…During different periods of development - be it the Russian period (1795-1832), the Polish period (1919-1939), the Lithuanian period (1939-1940, 1941-1943) or the Soviet period (1940-1941, 1944-1990) - Vilnius University became the arena for the dominance of nationalistic, authoritarian, and totalitarian ideologies. …”
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Legal regulation of the police officers' powers of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s of the XX century by S. V. Vasyliev

“…The legislative acts of the USSR, on which the Soviet police was based, also determined the powers of the employees of this authorityIn the early 20s of the XX century, the powers of police officers were enshrined in the Regulation on the Workers’ and Peasants’ Police of the Ukrainian SSR dated September 14, 1920. …”
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Changes in the policy of the MIA of the USR SSR regarding the Ukrainian national liberation movement in march-june 1953 by V. A. Grechenko

“…As before, the goal of this struggle remained the elimination of the anti-Soviet underground, but it began to be done in a more sophisticated way. …”
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Analysis of anthropogenic transformation of the hydrographic network in the northern part of Lviv according to cartographic sources by Ye. Іvanov, O. Pylypovych

“…The lowest figures fall on the interwar Polish period, when only four ponds with a total area of 2.5 hectares were recorded. During the Soviet period, the number and area of ponds increased slightly (9 units; 4.6 hectares) and reached the level that existed in the second half of the 19th century. …”
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Peculiarities of the Formation of Educational Trajectories of Russian Students: Assessment and Opportunities by I. A. Aleshkovski, A. T. Gasparishvili, O. V. Krukhmaleva, N. P. Narbut, N. Ye. Savina

“…In the conditions of the post-Bologna reality, Russia needs to create its own model of higher education, which will be able to provide the economy with highly qualified personnel, which will coopt all the best from the classical Soviet system of education and will be able to build on the national traditions, interests of students, their parents, teachers and employers. …”
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Factors of International Activity of Russian Cities: The Results of the Empirical Analysis by R. S. Mukhametov

“…One of the consequences of regionalization that swept post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s was the growth of foreign economic activity, international contacts of both Russian regions and cities. …”
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The state of police staffing in the Ukrainian SSR in the mid-1950s. by V. A. Grechenko

“…A topical and insufficiently studied issue in historical and legal science is the question of structural changes in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and their impact on the state of staffing of the police operating in the Ukrainian SSR in the first period after the change of power in the USSR, in the context of partial liberalization of the Soviet totalitarian regime (1954–1955). An analysis of police activity during this period shows that the level of crime prevention was correlated with the level of qualification of police officers. …”
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PROBLEMS OF DIPLOMACY IN THE PROCESS OF EURASIAN INTEGRATION by A. A. Durdyyeva

“…The modern political initiative proceeding from the leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus represents a mature legal form, which actually reflects the historically prevalent tendency of the post-Soviet peoples to associate with each other. The successful functioning of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space were preconditions to the project of the Eurasian Union. …”
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The United States and the Challenges of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s Internal Stability: A Historical Retrospective by L. R. Khlebnikova

“…However, the importance of Jordan for addressing pivotal regional сhallenges (such as countering the spread of Nasser’s Egypt and the Soviet Union’s influence in the region, the Arab-Israeli conflict and — later — the Israel-Palestinian peace process or the War on Terror), forced the consecutive US administrations, regardless of their party affiliation, to turn a blind eye to the lack of real progress in the implementation of liberal reforms in the Hashemite Kingdom. …”
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The Relationship between Academic History and Audio-Visual History in Lithuania: A Closing of the Gap? by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…Stumbling blocks on the part of audio-visual communications specialists arise from the artistic / individual / creative documentary tradition in Lithuania which developed during the Soviet period. This tradition gave rise to attempts to transform history to conform more to the author's vision of the past than to provide information based on the latest advances of formal, academic history. …”
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Sunflower lines originated from varieties with high oil content in their seed by V. A. Gavrilova, I. N. Anisimova, T. G. Stupnikova

“…Mutants with modified fatty acid composition were obtained, and high oleic cultivar 'Pervenets' was created. Soviet varieties formed the basis for the world's sunflower breeding, and further for breeding commercial hybrids using the effect of heterosis. …”
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Origin and Development of Service Cynology in Modern Ukraine by V. S. Seliukov

“…First of all, at the time when the territory of modern Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire, and eventually the Soviet Union, the police service cynology was originated in Ukraine. …”
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RUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION AND CHINA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MUTUAL PERCEPTION IN THE BORDER REGIONS by R. H. Simonyan, T. M. Kochegarova

“…Occurred nearly a quarter of a century ago, the collapse of the Soviet Union - an event that led to the formation of a new configuration of the world-system. …”
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Adaptation Practices of Young Central Asian Migrants in Tatarstan: A Socioanthropological Survey by Tatiana A. Titova, Vadim E. Kozlov, Elena V. Frolova

“…The recent thirty years have witnessed a significant structural shift determined by that most newcomers never lived in the once unified state ― Soviet Union. Different strategies of sovereign sociocultural development adopted by currently independent countries of Central Asia have led to increased cultural distances between their citizens and Russia’s natives. …”
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