This article examines what image of Russia is being projected in official rhetoric about the Sochi Olympics. It is argued that the imagined community being displayed is a diverse, inclusive and tolerant nation, even an international example of ethnic conviviality. The article puts this narrative in historical perspective, relating it to the mnogonatsionalnost policies of tsarist, Soviet and post-S

Today the climate in the arctic regions are changing at a rapid rate, faster than any speed previously recorded in human history but how is it impacting the geopolitical situation in these regions? New territory is being created by the ice melting and new natural resources are being found, how can this impact the current situation? This study looks at and discusses the current geopolitical situati

Aim It has been proposed that the root vole subspecies, Microtus oeconomus finmarchicus, survived the last glacial period on islands on the north-west coast of Norway. The Norwegian island of Andoya may have constituted the only site with permanent ice-free conditions. Geological surveys and fossil finds from Andoya demonstrate that survival throughout the last glacial maximum was probably possibl

Book Review: Gulag Memories. The re-discovery and com-memoration of Russia’s repressive past, Zuzanna Bogumil New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books 2018.

The article analyses in a historical perspective how ideas of Europe are discussed in Baltic intellectual, political and scholarly debates, and how the Baltic republics are positioned in these debates.

Årsrapport 2004 för Enheten för medicinens historia, Medicinska Fakulteten, Lunds universitet 1 Årsrapport 2014 för Enheten för medicinens historia, Medicinska Fakulteten, Lunds universitet Enheten för medicinens historia har under året 2014 fortsatt sin verksamhet som en fristående enhet inom Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper (IKVL) i Lund (prefekt Bo Baldetorp, sektion 5). Enheten leds av u

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WTO is an increasingly influential international organization, which aims to liberalize global commercial activities and TRIPS is an important part of WTO agenda, which provides minimum standards for IPR regulation for all the members. Empirical evidence suggests that stronger IPR regimes contribute to increasing inward FDI, R&D investment and innovations. Starting out from these findings the

The essay collects and analyses sources on the Russian Orthodox monasteries of the Swedish province of Ingria (Ingermanland). These houses have rarely been treated; their very existence is largely unknown among specialists, although they are the only Orthodox religious houses to have existed in Scandinavia before the mid-20th century, apart from those of post-1809 Finland. On the basis of printe

Introduction Lund University International Master’s Programme in Environmental Sciences (LUMES) INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW OF KALININGRAD REGION, RUSSIA: COMPARISON WITH SWEDEN AND DENMARK AND WAYS OF IMPROVEMENT Student: Ioulia Vassilieva, Address: LUMES P.O. Box 170, Lund SE-221 00, Sweden E-mail: ioulia.vassilieva.486@student.lu.se Supervisor: Peter Pagh, Professor of Environmental Law, dr. j

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Årsrapport 2004 för Enheten för medicinens historia, Medicinska Fakulteten, Lunds universitet 1 Årsrapport 2013 för Enheten för medicinens historia, Medicinska Fakulteten, Lunds universitet Enheten för medicinens historia har under året 2013 fortsatt sin verksamhet som en fristående enhet inom Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper (IKVL) i Lund (prefekt Bo Baldetorp, sektion 5 med chef Vineta Fel

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Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) needs to become an attentive listener if its countries want to advocate for its interests more effectively. With the war in Ukraine ongoing and the challenge of the country’s reconstruction looming on the horizon, the regional decision-makers have to show more understanding of the challenges faced by their partners in other parts of the continent. They also need to

This chapter discusses Ilia Repin’s court commission, Reception of Volost Elders by Alexander III in the Courtyard of the Petrovsky Palace in Moscow (1886). It argues that the painting reflected marginalizing discourses on the non-Russian minorities dominant at the outset of Alexander III’s rule. Repin employed a differentiating approach to rendering ethnically and religiously diverse representati

Focusing on Western tourism behind the Iron Curtain, this chapter introduces the main research questions addressed in the volume: firstly, how and why Eastern Europe became a tourist destination for citizens of the West; secondly, what impact this had on the development of a tourism industry in the Eastern bloc; and thirdly, to what extent the experiences of Western tourists in Eastern Europe infl

The report gives an account on PhD-training in the five Nordic and three Baltic countries as well as Russian and Germany.

This study shines new light on how the carolean soldiers collective identity may have been affected by the Great northern war. With the use of social identity theory and by analyzing how the caroleans differentiate themselves from the cosacks and russians it is possible to see if there is a potential shift in their collective identity. Established is that the caroleans had a national identity root