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Putin and Orange Revolution 24 September 2011 was a significant day when Vladimir Putin announced that he would run again for president. That was the first open and clear statement that there is no hesitation and he is the next Russian president. It became clear for many Russians that their opinion was disregarded, that nothing actually depended on their votes and nothing would change. The following government election and protest actions have drawn attention of the whole world including common

Russia’s strong and proud history started in the glorious days of the Kievan Rus’ (Ukraine’s predecessor state that Russia still fights with to claim it’s history, even today), a Ukrainian-Russian-Belorussian ancestral state of Slavs that was under Grand Prince Rurik the Great. Creating the golden age of the Slavic People in the middle ages, the Rus’ became the most powerful state in Europe when it emerged. The strength and power of the Kievan Rus bought an age of prosperity to the Eastern Slavic

Since January 1, 2015 the contract on the Eurasian Economic Union came into force. The contract on EAEU was signed by Presidents of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation on May 29, 2014 in Astana. The Eurasian Economic Union is the international organization of the regional economic integration. The union is urged to create conditions for stable development of economies of member states. It means union interested in increasing of a standard of their population

On April 10, 2010, an unforeseen tragedy struck the Polish nation. Their current president at the time, Lech Kaczynski, died in a plane crash along with 95 other Polish officials. Up until this date, any country’s president has never died as a result of a plane crash. Ironically, the members on the plane were all traveling to the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre which were a series of mass executions of Polish nationals in Katyn forest. This event caused much bewilderment within the country

The poem “ Feliks Skrzynecki” communicates to the responders that as a result of the Skrzynecki family migrating to Australia, Peter had lost a significant aspect of his life which was his relationship with his father due to the barriers that had arisen restricting them from proper communication. This concept is further reinforced in the quote “ Loved his garden like an only child,”. Through the application of this technique in the first stanza, it substantiates the connection made amongst the

Russia was not exactly "Russia," in the early years, but a collection of cities that became over time a major empire. In early 9th century a group of Scandinavian people known as the Varangians crossed the Baltic Sea and landed in Eastern Europe. There leader a warrior named Rurik, led his people in 862 to the city of Novgorod on the Volkhov River. Rurik's successor Oleg extended the power of the city southward. In 882, he gained control of Kiev. Oleg's rule over Kiev marked the first establishment

The conflict stems from the result of the Government’s decision to turn down the European Union proposed “association agreement” in 2013 and instead Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych accepted fifteen billion dollars in aid and other economic benefits from Russian President Vladimir Putin. For years Ukrainians have yearned for economic reform that would seek to open new trade and economic ties with Western European countries. President Yanukovych’s decision to reject the EU’s proposal ignored

Trust building in Poland. Poland is said to be one of the fastest growing country in European Union. The elderly people can be conservative because they were brought up in “communist times” when economy was centrally planned by the government. But new generation - young people are very open-minded. Relationship and respect All people in Poland feel they belong to one group. However it does not mean that those people are not individualistic. The great success in business interactions can

Depiction of the post-historical time in the Tolstaya’s novel represents a perfect morally corrupt world in need of a saviour. This degraded setting echoes the failed utopianism thinking of the early-post Soviet period, as according to Agren: “it [The Slynx] is a reflection of the postmodern and late Soviet disbelief in the utopian idea of state-promoted progress as a grand narrative.” Even though Agren argues that the anti-utopianism of the novel was inspired by the Soviet collapse, the “Blast”

Poland is well-known for being overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. In fact, approximately 95 percent of the Polish population is Roman Catholic (Sekerdej & Pasieka, 2013). For Poland, this commonly means that the majority of the population are members of the Roman Catholic church, a specific parish (Sekerdej & Pasieka, 2013). One research study conducted by Polish scholars about Polish Catholicism, noted that, in Poland, a person’s religion is never questioned, since it always assumed that everyone