The article discusses the specifity of relations between RSFSR and Ukrainian SSR in 1919–1929. authors present goverments two republics actions Russian side aiming to transforme into unitary state, initially rather loosely connected among them constituent elements Soviet state. Relations were burdened with significant disavantages from very beginning, as former appropriates rights union center....

BACKGROUND In the wake of collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asia has transformed into a key hub along the Afghan opiates trafficking routes. Around 30 percent of the heroin manufactured in Afghanistan is estimated to be smuggled through Central Asian republics in its way to booming drug markets in Russia and Eastern Europe. METHODS Building upon available evidence and extensive fieldwork ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between psychological distress and dietary consumption patterns in the former Soviet Union. Data are cross-sectional and were collected in 2001 from a large representative sample (n = 18,428) of respondents age 18 years and over in eight former Soviet republics. Sociodemographic covariates and psychological distress predictors were analyz...

The synthesis of heat shock proteins (hsps) at normal physiological and elevated temperatures has been correlated with the natural adaptation of an organism to heat in nine lizard species studied. These species differ drastically by their adaptation to elevated temperature and represent a spectrum of forms isolated from various geographical regions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Th...

The following paper examines the nature and change in citizenship policies in the former 15 Soviet republics since the collapse of the USSR till 2005. The main focus of the paper is the requirements that former Soviet republics adopted into their citizenship laws as prerequisites for naturalization, and the trend in changes made to these provisions. The paper proposes a theory that combines Neo...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union sovereign Islamic states arose in the traditional Islamic regions of the USSR, although Islam was not declared to be an official or state religion in the constitutions of these states, since, as before, religion was separated from the state. These states were: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. With the exception o...