This paper examines marital market preferences and opportunities, given the gender asymmetry of education limited supply equally educated partners (especially in higher segment), explores selection patterns resulting from new composite changes for at-risk populations entering into a marriage. Specifically, we are researching mixed marriages by that former Yugoslav republics. The assessment impa...

This paper presents important faunistic records conducted in the Czech and Slovak Republics during 2021. In Šumava Mts, South Bohemia, a hydrobiid snail of genus Alzoniella was found. Monacha cantiana s. lato genetically confirmed for first time city Bratislava, Slovakia. New sites Cornu aspersum (Prague) Tandonia kusceri (southern central Slovakia) were confirmed. A new colony slug Limacus mac...

The article examines the role and influence of Russian Federation in integration processes Central Asian region between five countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan Uzbekistan. It is worth emphasizing that state all its hypostases (the Empire USSR) from first days conquest territories Asia was guided by a strategy aimed at uniting entire into single political administrative ...

Title of dissertation: CONSTITUTING REPUBLICS: TOWARD POLITICAL CONCEPTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PREDICAMENT Emilbek Dzhuraev, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Stephen Elkin and Professor Karol Soltan Department of Government and Politics How is a good political order constituted? This work is a critical and constructive exploration of the problem of political cons...

History's nasty habit of repeating past tragedies in the form of a modernized farce threatens to confirm itself in the destiny of the Commonwealth of Independence States (CIS). This knowingly shaky and hurriedly tailored formation appeared on the ruins of the old Soviet Union in December of 1991 due to the efforts of three leaders of former Soviet republics--the presidenta of Russia and Ukraine...

Central Asia which is referred as the Heart of Asia, geopolitically, geographically, strategically, economically, politically, militarily as well as from cultural aspirations consequential and appreciable from the arteries of Pakistan and India. Pakistan being the agricultural and industrially thriving and proliferate state agog and inquisitive in securing its correspondence with Central Asian ...

geopolitical imagination, by definition, is the competition between powers in forming individuals’, institutions’ and political factors’ perception of the characteristics and contents of geographical space, on the basis of their intended interests. in this article, as a case study, the us perception of the :union: of soviet socialist republics during the cold war era is analysed. the authors ar...