BACKGROUND To investigate the phenomenon of alcohol poisoning in Russia and the countries in the European part of the former Soviet Union in the period 1970-2002. METHODS Four time points were chosen spanning the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Data relating to alcohol poisoning deaths were collected at each point for the countries in the region-Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russi...

This article discusses how Russian strategic thinking has evolved from the dissolution of Soviet Union to present day. Special emphasis will be placed on non-military means andhow their presence over time. To demonstrate this, both statements and articles most prominent figures theoretical field each era used, up themodifications in national security documents issued by Federation. As we see, r...

and characteristic schizophrenic anomalies, present or past, have been manifest. The terms indicate that this is the best place to classify some other poorly defined varieties of schizophrenia."" Although some Soviet psychiatrists manifestly resist what they find to be abuses of their profession,"3 9 in Britain and the West there is a range of opinion among psychiatrists, from belief that their...

Southern and southeastern Kazakhstan is a region of intraplate seismicity characterized by several destructive earthquakes. Almaty, the largest metropolis in this region, has many structures with different construction materials seismic-resistant systems. Among them, residential buildings constructed Soviet Union era (before 1990s) may possess low seismic resisting capacities due to limited des...

The purpose of the work is to reveal peculiarities Ukrainian drama mythologizing at beginning Soviet era (1920s). research methodology consists in application a number methods: analytical understand literature on topic article; interdisciplinary – comprehensively study factual material and acquire new knowledge; systematic with use range methods (biographical, semiotic, cultural, hermeneutic, h...

MEDICAL JOURNAL Political dissent and "sluggish" schizophrenia in the Soviet Union "It is considered by some governments that if a person does not agree with the views of the state, his sanity must be called into question. Extensive documentation exists on the misuse of psychiatry and psychiatric drugs in the Soviet Union."' Amnesty International, Bloch and Reddaway, and the International Assoc...

This paper presents a corpus analysis of the addresses that the leaders of the Soviet Union and Russia deliver every year before the New Year. The content of a New Year address is strongly codified and usually contains references to important events of the previous year. Analysis of the ways that the lexical patterns used in the New Year addresses are transformed and follow changes that have oc...

This paper is devoted to the theoretical conceptualization of political-economic processes within the Eurasian Economic Union. The author elaborates on this project within the framework of “global regionalization” and regards it as a fledging “global region.” In this paper, the European Union is analyzed as a model of the existing global region. The Eurasian region also has its own specific tra...