The massive reemergence of diphtheria in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union marked the first large-scale diphtheria epidemic in industrialized countries in 3 decades. Factors contributing to the epidemic included a large population of susceptible adults; decreased childhood immunization, which compromised what had been a well-established childhood vaccination program; subop...

Until very recently, conventional wisdom among the Western nonproliferation community held that nuclear theft and cross-border smuggling involving proliferation significant nuclear material had declined markedly since 1994. This alleged lull in nuclear trafficking activity was attributed to a variety of factors including the positive impact of nonproliferation assistance programs in the Newly I...

Nearly a thousand years ago, Moldova was populated by a Romanian-speaking people, descended from Romans, who intermarried with the indigenous Dacians. A principality was established in the territory in the fourteenth century, but it did not last long. Moldova then became a tributary state of the Ottoman Empire, which lost parts of it to the Russian Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centur...

The purpose of this letter is to call attention to the availability of a technical report on the chronic radiation syndrome (CRS) which may be obtained from the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI). Pursuant to facilitating communications between radiation scientists in the United States and the former Soviet Union, AFRRI and the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) have provided small ...

Russia after the collapsing of Soviet Union ignored and left behind the Caspian Sea for a short time due to giving preference to relationship with West. Discovery of new sources of energy in the Caspian region and the significance of the geopolitical position of this region in Europe, Asia and the Middle East and the key role that plays in the power balances in the world, also West attention sp...

abstract the eu neighborhood policy is a road map that will depict the perspective of european :union:’s relations with its neighbors. the membership of the neighbors in the :union: is impossible, because they are confronted with deep domestic and foreign problems, and on the other hand eu’s security, political and economic interests in these countries lead to offering of the eu neighborhood po...

india and zionist regime relationships have had many ups and downs over the past six decades. indians have been among the supporters of arabs for a long time and had been backing the palestinian issue long before the partition plan of palestine. india had proved no tendency to improve its relationship with israel regardless of jews and the occupier government‘s massive efforts over four decades...