Will the Russian language be in decline or on the rise by the year 2050?
Historically, the international significance...
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GB discusses the scientific method and new-century political science with one of the world’s great philosopher-chemists
GB...
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The polar endgame is anticlimax: no major conflict in sight, and strategic cooperation reigns
The Arctic, strategically...
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The current global economic recession is hitting Russia harder than most. From 1989 to 1998, Russia experienced its transformational...
