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Russian policymakers have often viewed the historical narrative of their country in ways contrary to actors in the west -- nowhere is this more prevalent than in the erroneous line of thinking that describes the 1990s as a decade of purposeful humiliation by the United States and European Union. Adapted from the source document.

The harassing problem of our days is that of freedom in Russia. It is not the problem of whether or not freedom exists in the USSR. No one, except ignorant tourists can entertain any doubt on this score. What preoccupies all of us is the feasibility of the resurrection of democracy in victorious Russia. Only reactionary hoodlums, remnants of the so-called "Black Hundreds" of the Tsarist time can feel happy in a Moscow reviving the spirit of Ivan the Terrible. Apologists for the Moscow dictatorship, yesterday's Socialists and liberals, lull their conscience by a belief in Russia's early liberation. The anticipated evolution of the Soviet regime impels them to accept light-heartedly, or even triumphantly, the enslavement by the Soviet Government of more and more European and Asiatic nations. The prospect of life in the freest and happiest community in the world of the future makes for them a few years of oppression well worth their while.

Richard F. Staar is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War,Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University and the author of The New Military in Russia.

In the USSR, the dual citizenship was expressly prohibited by the Soviet law. After Perestroika, a new stage of Russian statehood began: on 12 December 1993, the Constitution of the modern Russian Federation was adopted, which granted Russian citizens the right to have dual citizenship. Over the past twenty-five years, a new legislation has been adopted on the Russian citizenship, migration, and the state policy regarding compatriots living abroad. During these years, millions of Russian citizens have obtained second (multiple) citizenship, and with it came to questions, disputes and problems that required mediation of the Russian judiciary. In this regard, the main purpose of this article is to analyze the existing domestic legislation and international treaties of Russia on dual citizenship, to determine the dual citizenship regime in Russia - to examine the existing restrictions on the rights and freedom of persons with dual citizenship, and also to study the disputes on dual citizenship in the Russian Federation, in particular to scrutinize the judicial practice (leading cases) of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Based on an analysis performed in the article, the author draws conclusions regarding the further development of dual citizenship within the framework of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, and also investigates prospects of the Eurasian citizenship in the framework of the Eurasian Union. In addition, the author makes a proposal to Russian authorities to make information on registered Russian citizens with dual (multiple) citizenship more accessible and transparent, and also to adopt at the federal level a document on the Russian state policy regarding dual citizenship.

92Human rights — Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sex — Right to private and family life — Armed forces — Parental leave — Female military personnel parental leave entitlement not extending to male military personnel — Whether refusal to grant applicant parental leave amounting to discrimination on grounds of sex — Gender stereotypes — Right of individual petition — Russian Government raising preliminary objections — Whether Russia violating Article 14 taken in conjunction with Article 8, and Article 34, of European Convention on Human Rights, 1950Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 — Russian law — Entitlement to parental leave — Difference in treatment between military servicemen and servicewomen — Whether special circumstances for human rights — Whether safeguarding standards of protection under Convention of interest for other States Parties to Convention — Importance of issues raised — Gender stereotyping — National security

Renz, B.; Thornton, R.: Military reform in Russia. - S. 2-4

Appendix.--The political parties of Russia: p. [265]-279. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Nel primo capitolo viene analizzata l'evoluzione dei rapporti tra Occidente e Russia negli ultimi 30 anni, soffermando l'attenzione sugli eventi salienti e gli sforzi diplomatici di entrambe le parti, utile per comprendere il substrato dell'attuale contesto geopolitico. Successivamente viene trattata la politica economica russa e la controversia sul gasdotto Nord Stream 2. Nel terzo capitolo vengono approfonditi gli interessi politici e strategici della Russia, con particolare attenzione alle regioni baltica, per poi esaminare, nei paragrafi successivi, le problematiche relative alla presenza di russofoni nei Paesi baltici e le minacce dal punto di vista militare e dal punto di vista ibrido, con un approfondimento sulla centrale nucleare bielorussa di Astravets e sulla minaccia ibrida marittima. Nell'ultimo paragrafo si analizzano le strategie che NATO e UE stanno mettendo in atto per affrontare le sfide del futuro immediato. 4 Il seguente elaborato si prefigge di analizzare l'attuale situazione strategica nella zona del mar Baltico con lo scopo di esprimere delle considerazioni in merito alla sicurezza e alla politica di difesa degli interessi comunitari e globali

Examines Russian President Putin's foreign policy following Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US; support for counterterrorism coalition, relations with Europe and NATO, and regional security in Central Asia.

Argues that substantial democratic and economic achievements have occurred despite major difficulties; focuses on elections, policies of President Yeltsin, and political parties; since 1991.

A review essay on books by: Marshall S. Shatz & Judith E. Zimmerman (Eds & Trs), Signposts: A Collection of Articles on the Russian Intelligentsia (Irvine, CA: Charles Schlacks, Jr., 1986); Boris Shragin & Albert Todd (Eds), Landmarks: A Collection of Essays on the Russian Intelligentsia, 1909 (Schartz, Marian [Tr], New York, NY: Karz Howard, 1977); & William F. Woehrlin (Ed & Tr), Out of the Depths (De Profundis): A Collection of Articles on the Russian Revolution (Irvine, CA: Charles Schlacks, Jr., 1986 [see listings in IRPS No. 81]). At the beginning of the twentieth century, several members of the Russian intelligentsia began to re-evaluate Marxist materialism & explored idealism through Kantian & neo-Kantian philosophies. The group produced a symposium entitled Vekhi (landmarks or signposts), a denunciation of the Russian intelligentsia. The symposium attacked materialist conceptions of history & culture from an idealist standpoint. Signposts & Landmarks are translations of the Vekhi essays. Out of the Depths contains a continuation of the debates among the intelligentsia after the Bolshevik Revolution, begun by the original symposium in 1909. During the era of glasnost, renewed interest & discussion of the Vekhi essays occurred among Soviet intellectuals. By 1992, virtually all Russian intellectuals had accepted the criticisms in both collections of essays, but found little guidance in them for current actions. D. Karjanen