Ethnic minority-majority unions-also referred to as mixed ethnic unions-are often seen as the ultimate evidence of the integration of ethnic minorities into their host societies. We investigated minority-majority unions in Estonia, where ethnic minorities account for one-third of the total population (Russians 26%, followed by Ukrainians, Byelorussians, Finns and other smaller groups). Using da...

The history of medicine and science in Russia is full of global “firsts,” and Russians are rightly proud of this scientific heritage. Even non-Russians with a working knowledge of scientific history can cite, for instance, that the periodic table of elements was conceived by Dmitri Mendeleev, the first virus was isolated by Dmitry Ivanovski, and the first extraterrestrial satellite placed in or...

This paper examines questions about contract enforcement in the absence of formal legal institutions, using archival evidence for one particular rural society in pre-emancipation Russia. The evidence presented indicates that enforcement services provided by the local landlord made it possible for Russians from different socioeconomic and legal strata (soslovii) to engage in a wide variety of co...

a population of a little over 4,000. The people of this village are pure Russians and obtain their livelihood chief!)7 by agriculture and sheep farming, a few only work outside. The fields cultivated by these people are at so great a distance from the village that it entails their absence from home for several days together, in consequence of which they are obliged to provide themselves for thi...

Located at the confluence of the Turko-Islamic and Slavic-Christian worlds, Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, a semiautonomous region of Russia, is populated by roughly even numbers of Muslim Tatars and Eastern Orthodox Russians. The city is separately important to each group’s national history. For the Tatars, it is remembered as the seat of their Islamic state that held sway ov...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of the most common allelic variants of CYP1A1, CYP1A2, CYP1B1, CYP2C9, CYP2E1, CYP2F1, CYP2J2 and CYP2S1 in a representative sample of the three ethnic groups (Russians, Tatars and Bashkirs) from Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia), and compare the results with existing data published for other populations. MATERIAL AND METHODS CYPs genotypes were determin...

OBJECTIVES Russia has a high level of per capita alcohol consumption, while the level in Israel is low. Since 1989, over 820,000 Russian Jews immigrated to Israel. In the 1970's and early 1980's, a smaller wave of immigration from Russia to Israel occurred (approximately 170,000). The drinking of earlier immigrants was compared to recent immigrants and other Israelis. METHODS Data came from a...

Rodolphe Baudin and Wladimir Berelowitch have published a new source on the history of Russia in eighteenth century, course taught by Christophe Guillaume Koch at University Strasbourg between 1770s 1780s. Since there were Russians among Koch’s students, this is an example cultural interaction: young Russians, who had certain amount knowledge about their country, confronted with what professor,...

Attitudes towards gender equality have significant differences in different countries of the world. These are especially felt migratory movements, when people faced with regimes. This article is devoted to study ideas about immigrants from post-Soviet Russia, as well their comparison similar attitudes Russians. The empirical basis was a survey CIS countries, Ukraine and Georgia (autumn 2020, 70...

The paper presents an analysis of the genesis German Fascism and Nazism. ways factors (socio-economic, role education, position Church) that contributed to wild spread extremist ideology Nazism racism among masses people are examined. Having formed a hatred Russians, Soviet “subhumans” fanatical devotion, provided ideological basis for genocide during Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. continuity i...