Russia and Europe

Forest Certification in Eastern Europe and Russia

Rapidly Aging Populations: Russia/Eastern Europe

Regional dimensions and trends in population aging: Russia/Eastern Europe Population aging is a global phenomenon and countries of Eastern European also experience rapid increase in the proportion of older people. The proportion of elderly people in the Eastern Europe is currently lower than in the European region as a whole. However this population aging is expected to continue over the next f...

Radicalization of Muslim Immigrants in Europe and Russia

In the second half of the 1990s, Islamist terrorism emerged as a serious security threat to both Europe and Russia. For Europe, in contrast to the United States, Islamist terrorism became an increasingly domestic threat, stemming from cells formed primarily by Muslim firstand second-generation migrants. In Russia, the radicalization of an internal armed conflict in the North Caucasus was the ma...

CEnTraL aSIan SECUrITY TrEnDS: VIEWS FroM EUropE anD rUSSIa

Do Russia and Eastern Europe need GM plants?

Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are the leading agricultural producers, especially for potato, sugar beet and sunflower. The cumulative effect of adverse climatic conditions, high weediness and losses related to viruses and pests (without any insecticide and herbicide treatments) led to losses amounting to 40-80% of potential production in the Russian Federation and other mentioned countries. We...