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ISC | Russia
As Russia emerged from Soviet rule, the centralized government that once took care of most aspects of public life no longer ...
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ISC | A Nationwide Impact: Cleaning up the Environment
Russian people for years to come. Soviet rule had been top down, with little or no connection to local communities-and when the ...
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Yamal - Arctic Studies Center
Soviet rule, but, in fact, the Yamal Nenets have maintained their traditional way of life. They still ... this culture in the Soviet era. One certainly didn't get the feeling that much had changed in Nenets lifestyle and customs as a result of Communist rule. It seemed unbelievably traditional ...
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Europe on the Matrix: Baltic Countries
Soviet Union promptly "accepted" Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as new Soviet "republics". Although the three nations did experience varying degrees of industrial modernization under Soviet rule, the costs ... 1980s, in response to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost (or "openness"), residents of the Baltic countries began to demonstrate against Soviet rule. Their grandest display ...
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In the heart of Central Asia, enclosed by the Pamir mountains to the southeast and desert in the northeast, Uzbekistan was once the seat of vast wealth and influence. | June 2008 | New Internationalist
Soviet rule and now under the dictatorship of President Islam Karimov. Russia overran Central Asia in the late 19th century and the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was created in ... set about squashing opposition to his regime as soon as Uzbekistan won independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. A fierce clampdown on political dissidents after he was first elected president ...
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Bullock's Permaculture Homestead, Orcas Island, WA, USA
Soviet rule. This had been the life work of his father, still alive at the age of ... examples of the wealth of experience and knowledge in which the states of the former Soviet Union are abundantly rich. It is these people, with their wisdom and varied skills, so ...
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Robert Gilman - Sustainability: The State Of The Movement
You might think of it as extending the Golden Rule through time, so that you do unto future generations (as well as to your ... developing alternatives in education, agriculture, business organization and energy use; building citizen diplomacy with the Soviet Union; tracking the deterioration in the natural environment; and drawing up plans for redesigned communities ...
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Robert Gilman - Mondragón: The Remarkable Achievement
(The doctors aren't willing ... a major step in the direction of true participatory economic democracy. Both corporate-capitalism and Soviet communism assume that when it comes to economics, people can't (or shouldn't) run ...
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Don't Panic Eat Organic
Organic Links directory Organic labeling process unnatural, growers declare System aims to weed out rule-breakers; many farmers wary of cost, bureaucracy. Organic Consumers Association =Hazards of Genetically Engineered ... organic products. THE US TRADE EMBARGO OF CUBA, PLUS THE COLLAPSE OF THE ISLAND'S SOVIET MARKET, HAS MEANT THAT THE ISLAND HAS FOUND IT VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO IMPORT THE ...
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Books from the Earth Policy Institute
Institute in the Philippines and at the U.S. Department of Agriculture have developed a rule of thumb that each 1-degree-Celsius rise in temperature during the growing season reduces ... , "For 45 years of the cold war, we were in an arms race with the Soviet Union; now it appears we are in an arms race with ourselves." The urgency facing ...
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