A noted demographer assesses the reliability of data in the 1989 census of the Soviet Union for 14 regions of the Russian Federation affected by distortions designed by Soviet authorities to conceal the populations of "secret towns" of the military-industrial complex. More specifically, using ...
This “game” took its name from roulette, another game of chance in which a small metal ball is spun onto a revolving wheel, coming to rest in one of thirty-seven or thirty-eight numbered compartments. Its “Russian” designation probably derives from its being a popular pastime among the...
Should one of the consumer nations choose to intervene forcefully, the “arc of instability” running from North Africa through to Southeast Asia easily could become an “arc of chaos,” involving the military forces of several nations. OPEC nations will find it ...
Equally important were political forces linked to the collapse of the three multicultural empires (Ottoman, Russian, Austrian–Hungarian) which, together with the military expansions and contractions of the German Reichs in the two world wars (see Chapter 6 in this volume), led to huge population...
Will the world be the same after the COVID‐19 and Russian war in Ukraine? Will these changes accelerate the already ongoing processes of qualitative change or will life return to its previous state? Experts' opinions differ: some believe that the status quo (including the growth of metropolise...
Two commentaries, one from a leading prison health expert in the US, the other from two US-based Russian biostatisticians/epidemiologists, one of whom spent his military services working as a prison guard, dissect the data and analysis, but still conclude that Bobrik et al have made a plausibl...
The authors attempt to present the most accurate number of the Russian population from 1939 to 1945. Tables have been compiled for the population of the rear and occupied regions of the RSFSR. 关键词: Great Patriotic War human losses population dynamics natural movement of the population migration...
Already before the war, Ukraine had one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, and like many countries in Eastern Europe, it had seen many young people leave in search of more opportunities abroad, she said. But in the two and a half years since the full-scale invasion,...
Already before the war, Ukraine had one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, and like many countries in Eastern Europe, it had seen many young people leave in search of more opportunities abroad, she said. But in the two and a half years since the full-scale invasion,...
One important caution: the proportion of, say, defense expenditures as a percentage of GDP in local currency accounts may differ substantially from the proportion when GDP accounts are expressed in PPP terms, as, for example, when an observer tries to estimate the dollar level of Russian or ...