The pattern of inheritance of tracheal mite resistance in selected Russian bees was determined in bioassays and in samples from Þeld colonies. Resistant colonies of Russian origin and colonies selected for high susceptibility in the United States were used to generate divergent parental populations. Seven groups of F1 colonies were produced by crossing queens and drones from these selected resi...

abstract in the past twenty-five years, the russian government has been faced with widespread corruption and despite many efforts it hasn’t been able to control that. according to transparency international report in 2013, this country was the 127th among 177 countries. this essay tries to analyze the role of administrative oligarchy and continuity of corruption in russia. the main question of ...

from 2006 to 2008 russian government adopted an aggressive foreign policy toward the west, particularly the united states. in this article, the author claims that one should search for the main factor in the ‘feeling danger in the european borders of russia’ and more clearly in ‘serious endangering of european balance of power’ from the perspective of russian authorities after 60 years. i have ...

Database of contemporary Russian speech is being created for the Computer Fund of the Russian Language. Database consists of the corpus of sound files and their descriptions. Database sound material is formed by recordings of the Phonetically Representative Texts pronounced by 1) standard Russian speakers, 2) regional Russian speakers, 3) speakers from the former USSR republics to which Russian...

Russian psychology has brought into the world science at least two great ideas: the conditioned reflex (Pavlov) and the zone of proximal development (Vygotsky). These concepts were formulated before “iron curtain” fell. Since then Russian science dropped out from the view of western colleagues for decades. Now it is challenged to re-join international mainstream. Are we in a position to contrib...

Political, social and economic transitions that occurred as a result of the regime change in Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation from the late 1980s to the early 1990s led to a sudden increase in mortality across the region, with more than 80% of deaths being attributable to preventable causes, such as cardiovascular disease, lifestyle factors and injuries. The Russian Federation has expe...

I. Yu. Sklyadneva,1,2,3,4 R. Heid,1 K.-P. Bohnen,1 V. Chis,2 V. A. Volodin,5,6 K. A. Kokh,7 O. E. Tereshchenko,5,6 P. M. Echenique,2,8,9 and E. V. Chulkov2,8,9 1Institut für Festkörperphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 2Donostia International Physics Center, 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Basque Country, Spain 3Tomsk State University, 634050, Tomsk, Russian F...

The Russian Society of Cardiology (RSC) is an all-Russian noncommercial association bringing together experts in cardiology and related disciplines. Currently, there are . 4500 physician members of the RSC. Among the RSC members are internists, cardiovascular surgeons, endocrinologists, and other specialists interested in cardiovascular diseases. The RSC is developing interdisciplinary approach...

The aim of the paper is to overview the leading information processing domain in Russia and Eastern Europe, namely All Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (VINITI ) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Russian science structure is different from that in the Western Europe and the US. The main aim of VINITI is to collect, process and disseminate scientific information on va...

Recent findings [Dilley and Pitt, 2010. Psych. Science. 21, 1664-1670] have shown that manipulating context speech rate in English can cause entire syllables to disappear or appear perceptually. The current studies tested two rate-based explanations of this phenomenon while attempting to replicate and extend these findings to another language, Russian. In Experiment 1, native Russian speakers l...