Background: The current study aimed to evaluating the dentistry education system in Iran and comparing it with selected dental schools in Turkey, the Philippines, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Methods: The study was accomplished by the analyses of the documents available on web sites, links correspond to curriculum, the education program of general dentistry, and the transc...

BACKGROUND Despite evidence that many people engage in solitary drinking and that it might be associated with negative consequences, to date, little research has focused on this form of drinking behaviour. This study examined the prevalence and factors associated with solitary drinking, and assessed whether it is linked with hazardous alcohol use among males in nine countries of the former Sovi...

The article analyzes the conceptual foundations of identity politics, main subject which in modern conditions is national state. In addition to schemes interpretation concepts ethnicity, nation, identity, and policy, paper also examines practices implementing policy Russia Armenia. Identity research has become particularly important recent decades, but construct itself still difficult define an...

The paper is devoted to the final period of charitable and social activities famous public figure Armenian city Nakhichevan-on-Don Grigory Khristoforovich Chalkhushyan (18611939). Chalkhushyans were truly multifaceted. As a member Duma, he actively participated in solving affairs. His covered issues charity, education younger generation. However, after outbreak First World War genocide populati...

Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV) is a European hantavirus that causes hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS); case-fatality rates in Balkan countries are as high as 12%. To determine causative agents, we examined 126 cases of DOBV-associated HFRS in central and southern European Russia. In central Russia (Lipetsk, Voronezh, Orel regions), outbreaks were caused by a DOBV variant (DOBV-Aa) car...

Alexey Nekrasov 1,2,3,* ID , Alena Khachaturian 1, Mária Gamcová 3, Pavol Kurdel 4, Viktor Obukhovets 1,5, Vladimir Veremyev 1 and Mikhail Bogachev 1 ID 1 Department of Radio Engineering Systems, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Professora Popova 5, 197376 Saint Petersburg, Russia; [email protected] (A.K.); [email protected] (V.O.); [email protected] (V.V.); [email protected] (...