In our work, we attempt to describe the events that impacted life of Muslim community in multi-confessional republic North Ossetia-Alania at end 20th – beginning 21st century; analyze their causal link, influence Caucasian and global trends on them. During study, applied descriptive-narrative historical-genetic methods. We have come conclusion early century Ossetian turned out be receptive tren...

the south ossetia crisis leading to military hostilities between russia and georgia has turned into one of the complicated crises in the caucasus and at the world level since the disintegration of the soviet :union:. this crisis should be considered as the harbinger of a new stage in the international relations arena in the transition from the cold war era. hence, it can be suggested that the c...

The fall of Soviet Union and independence of republics of central Asia as well as South Caucasus have brought both chances and challenges for Iran. At first it seemed that Muslim republics, which broke from Soviet Union, might have brought great chances for Iran to promote her ideological claims and economic interests. Dreams of Islamic revolution in new independent central Asian republics invo...

Recently opened archives in Central Asia have allowed historians to debunk several myths about the Soviet constitution in that region. Archival research has revealed that indigenous elites were associated with the process of territorial division in the 1920s and 1930s and many of their conflicts were echoed in the central ruling bodies in Moscow. Similarly, field research has undermined the ide...

This article studies the issues related to economic development of Lower Angara region located in Krasnoyarsk Territory, analyzes state programs for Soviet and post-Soviet era territory, makes an attempt determine reasons unsuccessful implementation it. Based on conclusions made, a new approach socio-economic area has been proposed. It consists application number specialized industrial clusters...

A comprehensive framework is developed and applied to estimate the economic costs incurred by the Soviet Union in acquiring, maintaining, and expanding its empire. The terms "empire" and "costs" are explicitly defined. Between 1971 and 1980, the average ratio between empire costs and Soviet gross national product was about 3.5 percent; as a ratio to Soviet military spending, empire costs averag...

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the most common infections of the world’s poorest people living in developing countries [1–7]. They are mostly comprised of chronic parasitic and related infections, with the most common NTDs represented by the soil-transmitted helminthiases, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, and trachoma [1]. Among their common features, the NTDs ...

a. Since World War II, the Soviet Union has represented the principal threat to the national security interests of the US. During this period, the military capability of the Soviet Armed Forces grew enormously. Starting in the later years of the 1980's, the international security environment has undergone rapid, fundamental, and revolutionary changes. The Soviet Union has disintegrated with the...

Syphilis, " the great imitator, " used to be part of the standard differential diagnosis of neuropsychiatric disease. With the advent of penicillin, the incidence of tertiary syphilis has greatly declined. The disease is now considered unusual in the developed countries, except in the context of human immunodeficiency virus infection. In a recent review of syphilis the authors stated that " lat...