WHAT IS BOSNIA PEACE BY PIECE
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WHAT IS BOSNIA PEACE BY PIECE

Progress towards peace in Bosnia shows in every newly stocked store window, on every traffic filled road in central Bosnia, and in the smiles of every roller skating child on Sarajevo’s once deadly streets. But it is all too shaky, a few arrests of alleged war criminals, local quarrels in … WHAT IS BOSNIA PEACE BY PIECERead more

WHAT IS CENTRAL ASIA
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WHAT IS CENTRAL ASIA

PROBLEMS OF WEALTH, A WEALTH OF PROBLEMS In 1996, Central Asia became more clearly than ever the object of a new form of international rivalry, particularly in the renewed regional contest over Afghanistan. Some analysts referred to this rivalry as a new “Great Game”, harking back to the term made … WHAT IS CENTRAL ASIARead more

WHAT IS THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
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WHAT IS THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

LOCATION, CLIMATE, LANGUAGE, RELIGION, FLAG, CAPITAL The Russian Federation, or Russia (until 25 December 1991 officially known as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic RSFSR), constituted the major part of the USSR, providing some 76% of its area and some 51 of its population in 1990. It is bounded by … WHAT IS THE RUSSIAN FEDERATIONRead more

DEMOCRATIZATION AND CONFLICTS IN RUSSIA AND THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES
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DEMOCRATIZATION AND CONFLICTS IN RUSSIA AND THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATES

Democracy is a discussion. Vaclav Havel, Present of the Czech Republic There is an ongoing discussion in post Soviet societies about whether democracy has brought more good or more evil. What makes the discussion fairly hot is people’s firsthand experience with the protracted and severe conflicts that have become manifest … DEMOCRATIZATION AND CONFLICTS IN RUSSIA AND THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT STATESRead more