An American geographer specializing in population change and urbanization in the countries of the former USSR examines nationwide and regional total, urban, and rural population change in Kazakhstan for 1989-1999, using data from the recently released 1999 census of Kazakhstan. Of particular interest ...
An American geographer specializing in population change and urbanization in the countries of the former USSR examines urban population change in Kazakhstan over the period 1989-1998. The focus is on trends in urbanization, urban population growth, and changes in the populations of individual urban ...
In Russia and other former Soviet countries, Orthodoxy is the overwhelming presence. Claims by Reform in Russia are widely exaggerated, with many of the Reform communities barely existing or not at all. Orthodox shuls are the majority in Germany too, though other streams of Judaism remain well ...
Footnote 3 At present, there are some countries which experience not just reduced rates of population growth but declining or stable population. After 1990 and the dissolution of the USSR some countries which were members of the USSR experienced a significant reduction of their populations. The ...
Aral Sea sturgeon (Acipenser nudiventis)Monogenean trematode (Nitzschia sturionis)Aral Sea, former USSRIntroduced with stocked Caspian sturgeon Amphibians Multiple species of frogs, toads,salamandersDigenean trematode (Riberoia ondatrae)North AmericaCauses limb malformations during metamorphosis; linked with...
North Korea has no domestic oil or gas production, therefore it had to be imported from the former USSR after the Korean War (1953) to feed the population, and crop yields increased with the increased availability of fossil fuels and modern agricultural practices [61]. Unfortunately, with the...
In the socialist countries, students represent the vanguard of youth. While the population of the USSR increased by 55 percent between 1922 and 1972, the number of students in higher educational institutions increased by a factor of 21. In the 1940–41 academic year, there were 812,000 student...
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We have been deliberately inclusive in our selection of countries and have much broader coverage of countries than seen in previous work. Our sample also captures the third wave of democratization that occurred among former Soviet countries after the break up of the USSR, as well as sub-Saharan...
These countries were categorized according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics [15]. The different regions of birth were classified as follows: Australia (1), Oceania & Antarctica (2), Europe & former USSR (3), North Africa (4), South-East Asia (5), North-east Asia (6), Southern ...