A B S T R ACT. This is a review of recent English-language scholarship on the development of Russian identity since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The first part examines literature on the economic and political changes in the Russian Federation, revealing how scholars became more sceptical about the possibility of Russia building a Western-type liberal democracy. The second part investigate...

The 1500 physicists from Europe, the United States, the Pacific Rim, and the former Soviet Union who gathered in Minneapolis from 7 to 11 November had many messages but one medium: plasmas. As the presentations at the meeting of the American Physical Society's division of plasma physics showed, the windows that laboratory plasmas can provide into space, turbulent liquids, and matter-antimatter ...

termination of the cold war was followed by considerable developments in international relations, including the emergence and gradual empowerment of new political actors. china was one of these actors whose process of empowerment, which actually started many years before the end of the cold war, has drawn attention from many analysts. central asia is one of the regions with which china has had ...

this study examines the ideological content of six internationally-used elt textbooks, three british and three american. applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis (cda), three aspects of the conversations in the textbooks, i.e. content, relations, and positions were examined. results suggest that in terms of content, british textbooks tend to entertain the students while...

Collaboration between Soviet and American environmental health scientists is carried out under the auspices of two cooperative agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union. Under the Medical Science and Public Health Cooperative Agreement, scientists from both countries are conducting joint research on heart disease, cancer, arthritis, influenza and acute respiratory diseases, and ...