Russia

Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossiya, Russian pronunciation: [rɐˈsʲijə]), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It covers over 17,125,191 square kilometres (6,612,073 sq mi), consists of more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, extends to eleven time zones, and has borders with sixteen sovereign nations. Moscow is the country's capital and largest city, while Saint Petersburg is the second-largest city. The Russians are the largest Slavic and European nation, and Russian is the most spoken Slavic language; as well as the most spoken native language in Europe. Russia is the largest country …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with …

Medicines The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia Clare Griffin 5 Drugging France Mind-Altering Medicine


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

In What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy long-time election observer Jane Cooper recounts her experience monitoring a municipal election in Kirovohrad in 2015. Offering a framework for exploring what …

challenged to stand by Ukraine as it faces war with Russia, we ought to learn something about the recent history human rights and elections in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. His partner Nino is from Georgia. The enemo mission to saying you are in favour of closer ties with Russia – unacceptable, given the ongoing war. We get a Yekaterinoslav after Catherine II, empress of Russia in the late 1700s – was under the control of counter- that war. The Bolshevik Revolution broke out in Russia in October 1917, and big swaths of the Russian


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Covering a broad swathe of time, from colonization to the present day, Forced Migration in/to Canada examines human displacement in a variety of contexts: Indigenous dislocation and settler colonialism, Black …

High Arctic in the face of competing claims by Russia (S. Wright 2014). This program was nothing short


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 September 2024 English

A risk-taking, labyrinthine, and absolutely original collection of short stories. Every Night I Dream I'm a Monk, Every Night I Dream I’m a Monster offers an unfolding puzzle of the …

and it was almost impossible. It was like Soviet Russia trying to find a place that was open. When we


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024 English

about the re-emergence of great-power conflict as the usual suspects – the United States, China and Russia – compete for influence. The End of the World is Just the Beginning goes a step further than acknowledgment

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CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024 English

Wondering what a Republican administration’s foreign policy would look like should they take the White House in 2024? Read Elbridge Colby’s The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age …

geopolitical landscape – a rising China and revanchist Russia – for Colby the overriding question is what is


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024 French

community. Since then, observers have been speculating as to who might have been behind the attacks. Russia, the United States, Ukraine and Poland have all been singled out because of the advantages that rupturing build these two pipelines, which are more than 1,200 km long and lie beneath the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany.The author’s thesis is simple: Europe, and especially Germany, has gradually allowed Putin gave in Berlin as the West and Russia stood united against the terrorist acts of 9/11. Putin announced the end of the Cold War and the reorganization of a Russia which had faltered under former president

speculating as to who might have been behind the attacks. Russia, the United States, Ukraine and Poland have all km long and lie beneath the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany. The author’s thesis is simple: Europe with a speech Putin gave in Berlin as the West and Russia stood united against the terrorist acts of 9/11 end of the Cold War and the reorganization of a Russia which had faltered under former president Boris Resources Europe Western Europe Eastern Europe Russia Germany Natural Gas Showing 1 reaction Sign in


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 31 August 2024

brought a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Russia (OPEC+) and the saturation of the oil market during


Fraser Institute · 27 August 2024 English

The ESG movement calls for public companies and investors in public companies to identify and voluntarily implement environmental, social, and governance initiatives—ostensibly in the public interest. One school of thought …

for energy to make up for the imports lost from Russia, we were unable to con- tribute anything to the


Mackenzie Institute · 26 August 2024 English

Germany’s similar surprise attack was swiftly blunted by Soviet defensive tactics and paved way for...


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