Therefore, the problem of the formation of blank spots on the economic map of the country requires careful study from both general socioeconomic and geopolitical positions. Issues of territorial organization of the use of natu- ral resources, which are important for any country, are of particular...
While Catharine was a vigorous and successful ruler who counted as one of the "Enlightened Despots" of the age, she was a despot indeed, confirming the Russian tradition of autocracy, and also an anti-Semite. The Partitions of Poland did bring many Jews under Russian rule, but these were ...
If you deny all these basic facts about Russia today and, to boot, you don’t listen to the voices of active, thoughtful Russians, unfiltered by sham opinion polls, and finally, if you are not on the ground in Russia itself or have not spent oodles of time here talking to oodles of ...
but is a result of a rare phenomenon known as the Fohn (or Foehn) effect (literally ‘the hairdryer effect’) that sees isolated spots near mountains hit with a narrow blast of hot air.
During the period of 1994–1995, samples of vegetation and biota were collected by the RCMA in many spots along the whole of the Russian Arctic coastline (of the Barents, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian and Chukchi seas), mainly at the deltas of large rivers and on the nearby islands. The ...
Analysis of popular photo spots reveals that TNP does not track the movement of some visitors, and their preferences are not considered in the spatial layout of infrastructure [39]. 5. Conclusions The study shows that the two national parks under study are implementing the federal agenda for ...
However, among the modern Arctic populations there are still “white spots”, such as people of the small village of “Russkoe Ust’ye”, who still have not been thoroughly studied. The main population consists of so called Russian old-settlers—the Russkoustinians. They traditionally ...