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Vladimir Putin is the current President of the nation of Russia. Association between Russia and the Western part of the world are intensifying. March 14th of 2014, Russia annexed Crimea as part of its own national territory. As background, Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union. Once Ukraine became an independent nation, the region of Crimea became part of Ukraine. The Soviet Union was disbanded. As indicated in history “Crimea, which has an ethnic Russian majority, has long been a semiautonomous region within Ukraine.”1The annexation of Crimea by Russia occurred in the aftermath of a revolution in Ukraine that cut the pro-Russian president from power. Thus, a referendum was held in Crimea. The people of Crimea wanted to become part of Russia,…

I was born in Kazakhstan in former the Soviet Union, and moved to Russia at age 9. I’m considered Caucasian. I am fluent in Kazakh, Russian, Uzbek, Turkish and English. The thought about immigrating to the United States was horrifying to me. It was a new big country with new challenges for us, people who spoke different language that we didn’t speak at that time, a new traditions that we had to face, but we were grateful that the United States gave us a chance to live as human beings. Back in…

student, my ethnicity of a mixed race: Indian and Russian, and becoming involved in two completely different religions have been shaped by different factors over the years. I am going to discuss what contributed to my personal identity in terms of values, worldview, and how I interact with others. The first factor in my identity is my ethnicity, half Indian and half Russian. In Indian families the oldest male of the family is usually in charge of the household. This relates to my personal…

Russia Russia is a country in Europe that has existed and been inhabited since Paleolithic times. Russian Federation or Modern Russian has grown into the largest country in the world. Several major events have built Russia into what we know today. The early history during the ninth century C.E. Kievan Russia developed the first political party that reigned from the 10th-12th century (The World Fact Book, 2016). Since then there have been a plethora of leaders and developments. They…

underestimated the crucial role of nationalism in Crimea. Many Russians moved to Crimea in 1990 to escape the collapse of the Soviet Union but they couldn’t return to Russia after 1992 due to International Policy and Human Rights tariffs set by the European Union. Now the perspective has been an important weapon to understand the motive, desire and ideals behind Putin’s campaign to gain Eastern Ukraine. Marxism has resurged as a valid argument of Marxism after 9/11, coupled with the…

There has been an on-going battle in Ukraine for control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The United Nations has been informed about the growing number of civilian deaths but they have yet to do anything. Russia was accused of backing the Russian separatist on Ukrainian soil but they deny taking any part in that. Russia has gotten away with a lot of their activities and choices they made. They don’t take any accountability for what they have done, this just encourages them to do more. If…

When it comes to dress code, there is a Russian proverb, which describes the situation perfectly: “one meets you depending on how you’re dressed and says goodbye depending on how wise you seem to be.” Russians usually dress accordingly to their socio-economic status but businessmen are usually found in dark suits and are considered well dressed. Similarly, if you’re a foreign investor you should dress formally and eloquently without wearing expensive accessories, such as watches or chains. In…

There has been plenty of debate about who has the genetic claim to the Crimean Peninsula, and it is these debates that portray the conflict between the Crimean Tatars and the Russians. Vladimir Putin’s Russia has claimed that the Crimea peninsula has always been Russian soil, as the Russian people have always lived there. The Kremlin further claimed that the Crimean Tatars were just a group of settlers of Turkic origin, and thus they had no genetic claim to the land. In essence, they were…

A system of high equality will mean there is lesser likelihood of conflict between the autocrat and the people. A perfect example of this would be the country of Malaysia. Malaysia’s government is structured as a spurious democracy; in reality Malaysia is primarily a autocratic state. Nevertheless Malaysia maintains a successful autocracy because they maintain a high level of income equality, and lack of corruption. Authoritarian systems are likely to fail in nations in which income inequality…

protective and instructive umbrella of French culture’. This identity assumes a ‘binary difference’ between what is French (‘self’) and what is not French (‘other’), creating oppositional, exclusive categories: metropolitan and African, coloniser and colonised, and black and white. This ‘otherness’ is also highly gendered, with the male/female and masculine/feminine binaries othering the female/feminine. When individuals blur these categories, they become liminal. Valeria Sobol defines the…