This article summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within scientific debate on identification of main theoretical practical principles functioning innovative-industrial clusters in different countries, as well formalization impact digitalization their activities. The approaches to determining characteristics features innovation-industrial clusters. In order substantiate background relat...

This paper examines the impact of a decade of transition on the living standards of people living in seven of the poorest Republics of the former Soviet Union – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan (known as the CIS-7). Data are drawn from a wide variety of sources, providing a comprehensive overview of household and individual welfare within the region....

The paper proposes a socioeconomic framework of supply, demand, and regulation to explain the development of sex-selective abortion in several parts of the world. The framework is then applied to three countries of southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) where sex-selective abortion has developed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The authors argue that sex-selective abortion ...

African swine fever is widespread in Africa but has occasionally been introduced into other continents. In June 2007, African swine fever was isolated in the Caucasus Region of the Republic of Georgia and subsequently in neighboring countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and 9 states of the Russian Federation). Previous data for sequencing of 3 genes indicated that the Georgia 2007/1 isolate is closel...

regional organizations are established to achieve to strategic interests of the member countries based on common interests and goals. shanghai cooperation organization (sco) is considered as a regional organization. sco was formed in 2001 with the participation of china, russia, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, tajikistan and uzbekistan. this study attempts to analyze the reasons of india for trying to ...

New records on 32 species of the genus Hylaeus Fabricius, 1793 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) from Caucasus region are presented. alievi Dathe & Proshchalykin, sp. nov. is described Azerbaijan. Eight newly recorded Caucasus: araxanus (Warncke, 1981), H. excelsus (Alfken, 1936), intermedius Förster, 1871, iranicus Dathe, 1980, kotschisus oblitus 1972), soror (Pérez, 1903), and trifidus 1936)....

abstract: after the collapse of the soviet :union:, and the geopolitical changes in the region, which caused emergence of four new states, the outlook to the caspian sea and it's issues have changed. dealing with numerouse oil contracts with multinational companies and the entrance of transnational states and organizations, aggrevated the political and economic competitions and increased t...