The author investigates Russian federalism and the constitutional underpinnings of the power vertical, looking specifically at the Constitutional Court’s December 2005 case about the appointment of governors. The court’s decision upheld the constitutional notion of a “unified system of executive power” as the primary legal justification for the power vertical. However, not all of the justices a...

Climate change in the Russian Arctic is more pronounced than in any other part of the country. Between 1955 and 2000, the annual average air temperature in the Russian North increased by 1.2°C. During the same period, the mean temperature of upper layer of permafrost increased by 3°C. Climate change in Russian Arctic increases the risks of the emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases. This rev...

ystematic study of local politics in the Russian Federation has just begun. As a result, relatively little attention has been devoted to the legislative/representative bodies elected in many Russian cities during the 1990s.1 The following study of these institutions in Novosibirsk, an old industrial city in the geographic center of the Russian Federation, is based on the author’s direct observa...

The Russian Arctic supports wild sympatric ruminants and their data-deficient helminths. In this study, we: (1) collected fecal samples of semiwild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus), snow sheep (Ovis nivicola) across Palearctic North territories: Arkhangelsk Oblast (including Novaya Zemlya archipelago), Karelia Sakha Republics, Kola, Yamal, Taimyr, Chukotka Peninsulas, B...

Factors affecting ewe prolificacy (number of lambs born per ewe lambing) were evaluated using records on 9705 Targhee, 12,721 Suffolk, and 7231 Polypay lambings from flocks participating in the US National Sheep Improvement Program. Factors considered were ewe age and season of lambing. Prolificacy was affected by age of the ewe (P<0.001) and was highest for ewes lambing between 4 and either 7 ...

Degree distributions for word forms cooccurrences for large Russian text collections are obtained. Two power laws fit the distributions pretty good, thus supporting Dorogovtsev-Mendes model for Russian. Few different Russian text collections were studied, and statistical errors are shown to be negligible. The model exponents for Russian are found to differ from those for English, the difference...

M. I. Oshtrakh, V. A. Semionkin', O. B. Milder', A. B. Livshits, and A. A. Kozlov a Division of Applied Biophysics, Faculty of Physical Techniques and Devices for Quality Control, Ural State Technical University, Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation b Faculty of Experimental Physics, Ural State Technical University, Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation c Hematological Scientific Center ...

For our activities within the CLEF 2001 evaluation, Berkeley group one participated in the bilingual, multilingual and GIRT tasks focussing on the use of Russian queries. Performance on the Russian queries !English documents bilingual task was excellent, comparable to performance using German queries. For the multilingual task we utilized English as a pivot language between Russian and German a...

32 Translation © 2002 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the original Russian text © 1996 Akademii pedagogicheskikh i sotsial’nykh nauk, “Ot klassicheskoi k ogranicheskoi psikhologii,” Izvestiia Akademii pedagogicheskikh i sotsial’nykh, 1996, no. 1, pp. 8–38. This article was prepared with the support of the Russian Basic Research Foundation, the International Foundation for Basic Research, and the Russia...

This study compares patterns of consonant-to-consonant timing at word boundaries in English and Russian and investigates the roles of transfer and the emergence of linguistic universals in second language (L2) articulation. Native Russian speakers learning English and native English speakers learning Russian produced phrases in English and Russian contrasting VC#CV, VC#V, and V#CV sequences. Th...