Ukraine and Putin’s Post-Soviet Imperialism

Hospital reform in post-soviet countries: the case of Ukraine and Moldova

298 words) Hospital reform in post-soviet countries: the case of Ukraine and Moldova We can observe nowadays all over the world private companies providing health care services: hospital design, medical equipment, management and consulting. Since 1990, postsoviet states, such as Ukraine and Moldova, have gone through a process of reform of their health care systems. These countries represent a ...

Limits of a Post-Soviet State: How Informality Replaces, Renegotiates, and Reshapes Governance in Contemporary Ukraine

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Self-determination as a Technology of Imperialism: The Soviet and Russian Experiences

Self-determination is widely understood as an anti-imperial norm responsible in significant part for the global break-up of empires. But self-determination norms have been utilized as well to justify Great Power territorial expansion. This essay examines the ways in which self-determination norms have been wielded by the Soviet Union and Russia to justify overriding sovereignty norms, challenge...

Migration and Restructuring in Post-Soviet Russia

W hen Russia became independent in 1992, it inherited from the Soviet Union a spatial distribution of its population that was incompatible with its emerging market economy. Internally the largest migration stream has been out of the overpopulated Russian north and Far East toward central Russia. At other geographic scales, as a result of decades of Soviet labor policy, there were numerous citie...