OBJECTIVE Previously recorded rates of obesity in the Baltic Republics have been among the highest in the world although little is known about how they vary within the population. This study investigates the distribution of body mass index (BMI) and obesity in these countries. DESIGN Three cross-sectional surveys conducted in the summer of 1997. SETTING Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. SUBJ...

he development of the Russian federal system has been marked by conflict, co-optation, and consensus. Emerging from the generally unitary Russian republic within a formally federal but largely unitary Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia began its development as a federal system with little experience and few institutional structures salvageable from the earlier system. The patchwork Soviet-era con...

OBJECTIVES Food insecurity has become an important issue in many countries of the former Soviet Union following the transition to a market economy. This study examined three aspects of food security in the Baltic Republics: reasons for choosing foods; level of dependence on home-grown or raised foods; and use of home-grown vegetables. DESIGN Cross-sectional surveys. SETTING Data from survey...

This study is aimed at the analysis of perspectives provision radiation safety from natural sources ionizing exposure on territories included into Russian Federation in 2022. The contains comparison requirements legislative acts and regulations that were active 4 new subjects (Donetsk Lugansk republics, Zaporozhye Kherson regions) time their integration with equivalents. results indicate lack h...

The article presents the results of a comparative analysis two regions Southern Siberia: Altai and Tyva republics. purpose study was to identify general patterns individual features spatial development these republics both at regional municipal level. information base for sociological surveys population conducted in cities villages republics, as well data from statistics Rosstat. In research, m...

Vegetation of ephemeral wetlands (class Isoëto-Nano-Juncetea) was studied in the Czech Republic and Slovakia using a formalised classifi cation approach. We analysed a set of phytosociological relevés recorded in the study region comprising 17583 relevés of wetlands and some types of ruderal vegetation. Formal defi nitions of particular associations were completed using a dataset of 1580 relevé...