PEREVOZNAYA, Russia — Stretching from Lake Baikal to the Sea of Japan, the first trans-Siberian oil pipeline is to run 4,150 kilometers - more than three times as long as the trans-Alaska pipeline. At a cost of $15.5 billion, it looms as modern Russia's biggest infrastructure investment, President Vladimir Putin's answer to the Trans-Siberian Railway of the czars. Because China and Japan both rely on the Middle East for about 85 percent of their oil imports, both economic giants competed fiercely
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Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Vietnam/Afghanistan According to KULAKOV the Vietnam-Afghanistan war erupted because the Soviet leadership was informed about the deployment of an American medium range missiles in Europe by the North Atlantic Council. The leaders of the Soviet Union sent troops to Afghanistan and tried to support the national security interests. Major cities and centers of power were seized as a result of sending Soviet troops to Afghanistan. Other causes of the
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Did the United States win the Cold War? The forty-five years from the dropping of the atom bombs to the end of the Soviet Union, can be seen as the era of the new conflict between two major states: United States of America (USA) and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). According to Hobsbawm, ‘cold war’ was the constant confrontation of the two super powers which emerged from the Second World War. At that time the entire generation was under constant fear of global nuclear battles. It was
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Economic analysis Russia has the 9th largest economy in the world by nominal GDP (2097 billion USD) and the 6th largest by purchasing power parity. Since the end of Soviet Union in the early 90’s, Russia had developed a high-income economy with abundant natural resources, particularly oil and natural gas. The state has strengthen his dominance in the aerospace industry, mining, and oil and gas industries, but the budget remains heavily dependent on exports of natural resources, especially hydrocarbons
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Liz Rose Geology Assignment 4 11 july 2012 As everyone knows Russia and it's neighboring countries is a region that has been through a lot and has aged a lot. It is a region that has always had interesting relationships amongst countries. There have been many rises, falls, and battled that have occurred. From the cold War to World War II. Here we will take a look into the history of how this world region became the way that it is: economically, environmentally, and politically. A closer
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Firstly we can look at the repression form of Russification. This was a policy that ensured that the language of Russian was spoken throughout all of Russia and was enforced onto all ethnicities and people of Russia. This would be sure to repress all the cultural differences between people and help to give the Tsar more control over the vast population of Russia. This reform was introduced by Alexander II but reached new heights under Alexander III. This policy ensure that all legal documents were to be
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international alliances to which Russia is a party as an imperative and absolute integral of Russian act. So, international alliance and meeting rules abound in the advent of a rivalry with private Russian act. For consideration to foreign adjudication Russia is also involved in the meeting on the appreciation and administration of Foreign Arbitral Awards of 1958 “New York Convention”, and also to the European meeting on Foreign Business Adjudication of 1961. Russia also belongs to many reciprocal
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How did the arts serve the Soviet State? The arts had had a different purpose throughout the era of the Soviet State. Nevertheless the Soviet State was wholly under the control of the Soviet System, which Stalin used as an ideology and as a tool to disseminate state polemics. The system was required to suppress the opposition and create social consciousness of an obedient Soviet person. However first it is important to mention that the Soviet State had officially been formed in 1922 and lasted
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national industries is poor. The balance of payments pressure remains high due to large external debt refinancing needs, low FDI and limited access to external financing. This means that challenges are ahead of Ukraine with deteriorating relations with Russia, a weak banking sector, low FX reserves, large debt repayments needs (for the next 2 years) together with constrained domestic consumption altogether pose risks and affect prospects for recovery. Positive factors for Ukraine are as follows: (i)
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How far do you agree that Trotsky’s leadership of the Red Army was responsible for the survival of the Bolshevik government? (30 marks) There were many factors that contributed to the survival of the Bolshevik Government, ranging from Trotsky’s leadership of the Red Army to the failings of the Bolsheviks’ rivals for power. This essay shows that the main reason for the Bolsheviks’ continued survival through the period was not Trotsky’s great leadership of the Red Army, but the opposition’s mistakes
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