STATE-BUILDING PROCESS IN UZBEKISTAN: MANY MILES TO GO by Gürhan Ünal

“…With the dissolution of USSR, newly independent states struggled tofunction as independent nation-states since the transition efforts fromCommunism to post-Communism created an uncharted area for the post-Sovietsocieties. …”
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TURKEY’S FOREIGN TRADE AS A DRIVER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT by N. R. Masumova

“…After the collapse of the USSR Turkish-Russian economic relationship was facing revival. …”
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UKRAINE’S ENERGY POLICY IN THE POST-SOVIET ERA by Y. V. Borovsky

“…Following the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine has found itself in a heavy, almost insurmountable dependence on imported oil and gas resources. …”
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On the 160th anniversary of Ivan V. Michurin’s birth by N. P. Goncharov, N. I. Savel’ev

“…Michurin initiated the mass movement of fancier gardeners and horticulture experimenters in USSR who changed and significantly extended the species and geographic ranges of fruit and berry cultivation in Russia. …”
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Lieutenant of the Russian Imperial Army Anatoly Petrovich Moser (1889–1943): the «little man» and his fate in mirror of military anthropology by D. I. Petin

“…Studying the life of this person fills the knowledge about the being of «former people» in the RSFSR — USSR. The basis for the preparation of the work was unpublished sources from the funds of the Russian State Military Historical Archive, the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region, as well as an interview with the author’s granddaughter of the article’s hero. …”
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Activities of civic organizations in the field of protection of prisoners and rehabilitated persons in the soviet period legal assessment of russian crimes in Ukraine by Demyanchuk T.

“…Legally, public organizations could not fundamentally influence the work of the criminal-executive system, but they showed its totalitarian and anti-human character, contributed to the collapse of this system and the USSR itself. Originality. Information is provided about the process of formation of public organizations in the Ukrainian SSR and the degree of their involvement in protecting the rights of persons who served sentences or were rehabilitated. …”
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Conditions of construction of the system of digital transport and logistics in the management of competitiveness by D. R. Abdyusheva, A. O. Merenkov, A. A. Stepanov

“…Note that the first developments in the field of automated control systems (ACS) date back to the mid-20th century, when cybernetics was developing in the USSR. Over time, automation elements have developed in aviation, road and rail transport. …”
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The archaeological direction in Japanese studies in Russia: Development, peculiarities, personal experience by A. V. Tabarev

“…Since the early 1960s, one of the leading roles in this collaboration is played by the Novosibirsk Scientific Center (Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Faculty of Humanities of NSU) and such specialists as A.P. …”
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INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OF GREAT BRITAIN IN A GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT by Vitaliy Tereshchuk

“…It was revealed that the BBC World Service in different periods of its existence practised different models of broadcasting, realizing their inherent goals — colonial broadcasting (maintaining the unity of the British Empire), counter-propaganda in the interwar period and the period of the Second World War (countering informational influence alienation of Nazi Germany and the USSR), propaganda during the Second World War (formation of favourable public opinion regarding the activities of the anti-Hitler coalition) and the Cold War (anti-communist propaganda), in the times of the bipolar and post-bipolar world — positioning itself as a "surrogate" media that provides truthful news in countries where access to independent sources of information is limited by political regimes. …”
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Short eternity or The long end of Soviet academicism by Володимир Верлока

“…In the article, the author addresses the reconstruction of the specific understanding of science in the USSR, revealing such features as ideological, partisan, and bureaucratic. …”
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Fundamental Bases of Success and Prestige of National Engineering Education by A. I. Rudskoy, S. V. Kabyshev, A. I. Borovkov, P. I. Romanov, N. S. Grishina

“…The main subject of analysis in the article is the normative legal acts of the Russian Empire and the USSR. The authors refer to the fundamental bases of engineering education only those components that have passed the test of time, post-revolutionary experiments during the change of historical epochs. …”
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Philosophical and Legal Interpretations of the Deformations of Legal Awareness in the XX - Early XXI Century by M. V. Melnyk

“…It has been determined that the “golden age” of this extremely negative social phenomenon occurred at the beginning of the XX century, after the formation of the USSR. Totalitarian propaganda machines, the Soviet Union in particular, tried to transform society into a governed crowd, brainwashed by a certain ideology that led to a degeneration of legal awareness into a totalitarian consciousness and, as a consequence, to the widespread deformation of legal awareness. …”
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The Evolution of Mediation in International Conflicts from 1940s to 2020s by M. M. Lebedeva

“…The second stage, since the end of 1980s to the beginning of the 21st century, witnessed a rapid progress in the settlement of many protracted regional conflicts, aided by the mediation efforts of the USSR and the United States. In Russia, research on international mediation, previously fragmentary and legalistic, developed into a separate subfield of international studies. …”
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Evaluation of aluminum tolerance diversity in <i>Avena sativa</i> L. from the VIR collection by I. G. Loskutov, E. V. Blinova, L. Yu. Novikova

“…Acid soils with excessive content of exchangeable aluminum occupy almost every third hectare in the ex-USSR territory. Oats are relatively resistant to unfavorable soil factors. …”
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«Only anarchy can give us the opportunity to defeat the Soviet government»: a memorandum by General M. K. Dieterichs to the leadership of the ROVS (1930) by S. V. Smirnov

“…The text of the memo shows the discrepancy between the author’s realistic assessment of the international situation in the Far East, the situation in the Far Eastern regions of the USSR, where there was an increase in discontent with the activities of the Soviet government, as well as the state of White emigration in China and the presentation of the prospects of the anti-Soviet movement based on Dieterichs’ belief in the exclusively repressive and spiritually alien Russian people essence of Soviet power and readiness a significant part of the ordinary military emigration to sacrifice in the overthrow of the «Bolshevik yoke». …”
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Formation and development of special police units: a retrospective analysis by K. O. Chyshko, R. S. Pinchuk

“…Stage I (1709–1917) – formation of the land militia, which can be considered the first example of the existence of modern special police units; Stage II (1917–1941) – characterised by the creation of Ukrainian voluntary militia and military formations; Stage III (1941–1978) – a period of stagnation in the history of the formation of special police units due to the events of the First and Second World Wars; Stage IV (1978–1991) – creation of the first special unit in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR at the official level – a special police detachment; Stage V (1991–2014) – associated with Ukraine’s independence and the creation of Berkut special police unit, Titan special police unit, Sokil rapid response unit; Stage VI (2014 – present) – formation of special police units that actively participate in armed conflicts; this stage was influenced by three key events: 1) the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine, which was later called the “Joint Forces Operation”, which led to the creation of a number of volunteer special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine; 2) the creation of the National Police of Ukraine and the formation of special units within its structure (the Rapid Action Corps, the Special Police Patrol Service and the Tactical Response Unit); 3) Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which led to the creation of a militarised special police unit, the “Luty” Joint Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine and the “Safari” assault regiment of the National Police.…”
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There are no Foodstuffs in Grocery Stores, Everything is Very Difficult to Obtain: Women’s Everyday Life in the Provincial Soviet City in the 1950-1960s by Natalia L. Pushkareva, Irina V. Bogdashina

“…The authors have explored alimentary practices (obtaining, preparing, cooking, consuming foodstuffs) in the context of gender relations, social history of women and everyday life of women in non-capital cities of the USSR in the late 1950s - early 1960s. The main sources of their work are: personal documents (unpublished diaries and memoirs), materials from recipe books that were in almost every home at that time, information from periodicals (magazines), archival materials from the funds of the State Archives of the Volgograd Region and the Center for Documentation of the Contemporary History of the Volgograd Region, and specific office documents - reports of inspections of district committees of people's control and confirming facts of abuse in the sphere of public catering. …”
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Representation of Omsk village in guidebooks of All-Union Exhibition of Agriculture (1939–1940) by Zh. E. Levina

“…The present scientific work describes the participation of Omsk region in the «Great Review», a unique propaganda and cultural and educational Soviet project of the 1930s which aroused great interest not only in the USSR but throughout the world. Special attention is paid to the self-presentation of Omsk region in such pavilions as «Siberia», «Grain», «Cattle breeding», «Rabbit breeding», «Veterinary medicine», «Gardening», «Printing», «Young naturalists». …”
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The Conditions of Public Opinion Action in Soviet Lithuania by Valdemaras Klumbys

“…Political changes after the death of Stalin and changes of the USSR international position forced KGB to use the means of psychological influence, pressure besides physical repression, actions of falsehood, discreditation, various provocations, and intimidation. …”
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Legal deposit in Lithuania in 1945 - 1992 by Ringailė Bagušytė

“…The performance of the legal deposit system in Lithuania was determined by the USSR institutions. However, even while operating within the limits permitted by the Union Books Palace, the basic functions of legal deposit were fulfilled in the Lithuanian Bibliographic Centre, and the fundamentals for further activities, which continue in the Centre of Bibliography and Book Science of the M. …”
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