‘Bulun in Winter Is So Sad’: A. Bogolepov about Everyday Life in Polar Yakutia, 1913–1916 by Lilia I. Vinokurova, Alexander A. Suleymanov, Svyatoslav I. Fedorov

“…The discovered materials open a previously unknown page in the Yakut pre-Soviet Northern studies. A. Bogolepov’s manuscript is rich in data on natural conditions, economic and cultural activities in the small remote settlement somewhat representing the polar world in miniature. …”
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Police crime in 1947 in the coverage of the Ukrainian SSR state security agencies by O. N. Yarmysh, V. A. Grechenko

“…The involvement of police officers in various criminal and official crimes has been revealed: treason during the Soviet-German war, robbery, bribery, extortion, assistance to criminals, official negligence. …”
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Systemic Crisis in the US-Turkish Relations Under the Presidency of D. Trump by A. A. Davydov

“…During the first one, for the United States Turkey was one of the key countries that was blocking the Soviet expansion southward towards the Persian Gulf and the Suez Canal. …”
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DE-COLONIZING POLITICAL BOUNDARIES IN CENTRAL ASIA by N. T. Nurulla-Khodzhaeva

“…In this regard, the proximity (geographical, cultural, “Soviet”) to Russia should help with understanding its own Eurasian of interconnectedness. …”
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Wpływ prawa rzymskiego na kształtowanie się wybranych instytucji prawa ukraińskiego — uwagi na marginesie art. 291 k.p.k. by Wojciech J. Kosior

“…The research aims to demonstrate that, despite the enormous influence of Russian, and later Soviet, legal solutions, Ukrainian law (basically newly reshaped since 1991) is part of the trends of European legal culture as a result of the implementation of Western solutions.…”
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THE TRANSFORMATION PERIODS IN THE RUSSIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS (1991-2016) by D. G. Bdoyan

“…The geopolitical competition in the post-soviet area, economic cooperation and the threat of terrorism were the main points of interaction. …”
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The manor estate economy ofthe Republic of Two Nations (the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) in the 16th-18th centuries from the Marxist and neo-institutionalist perspectives by Darius Žiemelis

“…Kosminsky, a renowned medieval expert in the Soviet Union. American economists of the new institutionalist economic history work by its best-known representatives D. …”
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About One Memorable Date in the History of Spain by G. I. Volkova

“…Disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union and the emergence on the world political map of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and most recently of the Republic of Crimea - confirm this. …”
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Genetic history of the Koryaks and Evens of the Magadan region based on Y chromosome polymorphism data by B. A. Malyarchuk, M. V. Derenko

“…The high frequency of such Y chromosome haplogroups in the Koryaks (16.7 %) and Evens (37.8 %) is indicative of close interethnic contacts during the last centuries, and most probably especially during the Soviet period. The genetic contribution of the European males’ Y chromosome significantly prevails over that of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA. …”
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Forecast for the zone of viticulture in European Russia under climate change by L. Yu. Novikova, P. V. Ozerski

“…The factors limiting the zone of viticulture in Russia have been identified by Soviet scientist F.F. Davitaya in 1948, and they are still relevant. …”
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Aetiological research on the health of migrants living in Germany: a systematic literature review by Oliver Razum, Florian Fischer, Ina Danquah, Claudia Hövener, Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Tracy Bonsu Osei, Isabel Mank, Raissa Sorgho

“…The population groups most frequently studied were from the Middle East (n=28), Turkey (n=24), sub-Saharan Africa (n=24), Eastern Europe (n=15) and the former Soviet Union (n=11). The outcomes under study were population group specific. …”
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Development of Stylistics and Rhetoric in Lithuania by Irena Smetonienė, Marius Smetona

“…Poetics] (1930, second edition in 1936). During the Soviet period, quite a number of writers wrote on stylistic issues, including Kazimieras Župerka, Audronė Bitinienė and Juozas Abaravičius. …”
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Ideology and Values in Turkey's Foreign Policy by V. A. Avatkov

“…The return of the idea of «aggrandizement» of the country to the official political discourse has affected the conduct of Turkey's foreign policy towards both the regional states and the world arena as a whole.The Republic not only began self-restoration as an autonomous actor of international relations in the eyes of the key world powers, but also started to spread its own values and ideas among the population of both the Middle East and among the states which constitute a national interest for Turkey (Russia, the post-Soviet space, etc.), thus influencing them at various levels and involving them in its orbit of influence – both politically, economically and from a humanitarian point of view.Using «hard power» abroad no longer meets the current Turkey’s policy. …”
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Five decades of Abramov glacier dynamics reconstructed with multi-sensor optical remote sensing by E. Mattea, E. Berthier, A. Dehecq, T. Bolch, T. Bolch, A. Bhattacharya, A. Bhattacharya, S. Ghuffar, M. Barandun, M. Hoelzle

“…Throughout Central Asia, several sites have been established over the past 15 years, often restarting long-term time series interrupted after the Soviet Union's collapse. The region also features widespread ice flow instabilities, including surge-type glaciers. …”
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF MEMORY IN PUBLIC SPACE AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION: A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH IN TIME OF WAR by Viktoriia Kovpak, Nataliia Lebid, Viktor Burenkov

“…This, in turn, can take the form of the construction of historical memory and become a practice of intervention in the field of historiography, marking the territory and the mental space with colonial symbols, as demonstrated by Russia after the collapse of the USSR, appealing to nostalgia for the Soviet past and constructing the politics of "fraternal nations" in entrepreneurial activity. …”
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Measuring. Monitoring. Management. Control by S.V. Logunov, E.V. Blagodyrenko, I.S. Gerasimenko, N.A. Kupriyanov

The Establishment and Activity of Military Achievers Union (1937-1940) by Aušra Jurevičiūtė

“…During the period of 2 years, the organization released and legally registered a medal for the members, which was not presented because of the Soviet occupation. Military Achievers Union had more than 1,200 members and candidates, some of which held important positions in military and state service. 200 volunteer founders of the union were presented with the medal of Volunteer founders, whereas 50 persons were awarded with the Vytis cross.  …”
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Exploring dental students' knowledge on oral cancer prevention: a cross-sectional study in Moldova, Armenia, and Belarus by Olga Golburean, Diana Uncuta, Gayane Manrikyan, Natalia Shakavets, Izabella Vardanyan, Marina Markaryan, Ferda Özkaya, Daniela-Elena Costea, Tarig Al-Hadi Osman

“…This study aimed at evaluating knowledge about OC among dental students in Moldova, Armenia and Belarus; three former soviet countries with high rates of tobacco use. Methods This was a cross-sectional, multi-country study based on self-administered questionnaire. …”
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THE ROLE OF N. I. VAVILOV AND VIR’S SCIENTISTS IN DESERT RECLAMATION by N. I. Dzyubenko, A. A. Kochegina

“…The article is devoted to the origins of the fight against desert expansion in Russia and former Soviet Republics of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, and N. …”
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The role of Nazi organizations in German repatriation from the Baltic states (1939-1941) by Ingrida Jakubavičienė

“…After secret agreements between Hitler and Stalin, Lithuania should be handed to the Soviets. The German and Soviet negotiations started in 1940 after the Soviets occupied Lithuania. …”
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