russia and iran, one with european background and slavic racial origins with the other one being of asian descent with non-slavic racial origins, are playing their roles in building regional and international order according to their respective capacities, capabilities. geopolitical and geostrategic developments and differences in proclaimed and practical approaches have historically changed th...

This paper examines trends in the experience of injustice in six societies—Bulgaria, Czech Republic, East and West Germany, Hungary, and Russia—between 1991 and 1996. Using data collected by the International Social Justice Project, we estimate the justice index, JI1, and its decomposition into the amount of injustice attributable to poverty and the amount of injustice attributable to inequalit...

Correspondence: Eurosurveillance editorial team ([email protected]) Citation style for this article: Eurosurveillance editorial team. ECDC launches public consultation on rotavirus vaccination in infancy. On 17 October, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) launched a public consultation on the preliminary scientific advice document 'Expert opinion on rotav...

Russo-Ukrainian relations in the 20th Century are dominated by genocide. Using Raphel Lemkin and Martin Shaw as a guide, one finds that during was long period of genocidal action, linked periods punctuated genocides. These genocides included several political quelled Ukrainian nationalism independence kept it subjugated to Soviet Russia. Russia's genocide carryover from Imperial Russia treatmen...

BACKGROUND Echinococcosis is still a serious problem particularly in endemic areas such as South and Central America, Mediterranean countries, and Russia. Furthermore, hydatid cysts of the lung are often indistinguishable from a variety of other pulmonary lesions such as lung tumors CASE PRESENTATION We herein present a 56 year old woman with breast cancer who presented with bilateral pulmona...

Violence in families and elder abuse can take many forms, which his sometimes difficult to recognize. In Russia, elder abuse is rarely discussed in professional literature and mass media. A border between elder abuse and parricide can be indistinct. Borderline cases can include involvement of older people in binge drinking, denial of help, and manipulation towards suicide. Three example cases a...

The post-Soviet land reforms that allowed private ownership of land in Russia and Ukraine, and the recent rise in global interest for land resources have made the fertile land of these countries an object for investment and a cause of disputes among land investors, peasants, and government. In similar circumstances in other agricultural countries, social movements rose to the defense of rural d...