The aim of this paper is to analyse the political, social and economic background of the divergence of Belarusian and Ukrainian transitions. We focus on Belarus in order to find explanation for questions such as why could Lukashenko remain the authoritarian leader of Belarus, while in Ukraine the position of the political elite had proved less stable and collapsed in 2004. On the theoretical fr...

To determine whether youth athletes with an "average" (regional), "high" (sub-elite), and "very high" (elite) level of performance differ with respect to their self-assessed tactical skills, 191 youth field hockey players (mean age 15.5 years, s = 1.6) completed the Tactical Skills Inventory for Sports (TACSIS) with scales for declarative ("knowing what to do") and procedural ("doing it") knowl...

the aim of this study was to describe and assess general anthropometric measurements and somatotypes of elite male players of iran adult handball national team and to compare these measurements with those of european elite players in different positions. 19 elite handball players of iran national handball team including goalkeepers (n=4), wing (n=4), center backs (n=2), pivots (n=2) and backs (...