Presence Of Russia Research Articles

«Мансуровский проект» Русской Палестины (по материалам поездки 1857 г. по Святым местам)

We consider the activity of B.P. Mansurov in organizing Russian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We describe the preparation, course and results of B.P. Mansurov’s trip to the Orthodox East (1857) that largely predetermined the nature of the Russian presence in Palestine. In the framework of this trip, we consider the reasons for creating the joint-stock company “Russian Company of Shipping and Trading”. We reveal that created as an attempt to preserve the presence of Russia on the Black Sea coast, the company set the task to facilitate the movement of Russian pilgrims to Palestine and Athos. By this step, the Russian government intended to increase Russia’s humanitarian influence in the region. We pay attention to B.P. Mansurov’s service instructions in trip to the East, the significance of his work for the publication of the “Guide to the Orthodox Worshiper to Holy Places”, and also Mansurov’s own views on the problem of Russian Orthodox pilgrimage in Palestine. We show that B.P. Mansurov’s program envisaged an increase in the intensity of the steamship communication with Palestine, the acquisition of land and construction of pilgrimage shelters, the erection of temples for the Russian worship. The development issues of Orthodox pilgrimage should be managed through the Russian consulates operating in the Middle East, including in Jerusalem itself. Consideration of results of the journey in 1857 allowed to draw conclusions about the significant role of B.P. Mansurov in the history of the Russian presence in the Holy Land.

Emerson Process Management: Metran Acquisition

This case is used in Darden's first-year strategy course and is appropriate for MBA, Executive MBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs. The president of a key division of Emerson, a well-known diversified global manufacturing company, and his team address important questions about expanding into Russia through the acquisition of a relatively small company that has a strong local brand. How should a successful firm evaluate and enter new markets that are experiencing political and economic uncertainty? Excerpt UVA-S-0252 Rev. Jun. 8, 2016 Emerson Process Management: Metran Acquisition Steve Sonnenberg looked up from the Metran acquisition review report he was reading to gaze out at the Russian midwinter landscape just as the wheels on the Soviet-era Aeroflot Ilyushin II-62 on which he was a passenger touched down unsteadily on the Chelyabinsk airport runway. It was January 2004, and Sonnenberg and his team were in Chelyabinsk to assess the prospect of acquiring Metran Industrial Group for the Emerson Electric Co. (Emerson) Process Management (Emerson Process Management) business platform. As president of Rosemount Inc., Emerson Process Management's flagship company, Sonnenberg was leading Emerson's effort to expand into Russia. Sonnenberg recalled: Russia was an important emerging market. With one of the largest oil and gas reserves in the world, it represented a great opportunity to expand our process automation and control systems business. But in 2004, there were a lot of question marks around owning a company in Russia, as well as around Metran itself. Five years earlier, we had considered investing in Metran and decided against it. As we prepared for the Chelyabinsk visit that winter, we asked ourselves—had enough changed at Metran for us to jump in now? Sonnenberg was confident in his team's capabilities and encouraged by the warm reception the team had received during a recent visit to Metran. Nevertheless, many vexing questions remained: Was the time right for Emerson to expand its presence in Russia? If so, should the Metran acquisition drive that expansion? If the acquisition moved forward, what would be the best price and structure for the deal? Finally, how might Metran combine with the Emerson Process Management business in Russia so that the best qualities of both companies were retained? That is, how could Emerson maintain the quality and reliability of its Emerson Process Management brand while taking advantage of Metran's reputation for responsive, locally focused client relationships? Sonnenberg realized that these questions, and many others, would have to be answered by the next month, when David Farr, Emerson's corporate CEO, was coming to visit Chelyabinsk. . . .

La transposition d’un idéal russe en Europe : la Serbie

Serbian political parties express a wide range of attitudes towards Russia and to Serbian integration into EU . The presence of Russia in the political field de facto a primary issue . For several years now , Russia has started to promote its model state . Therefore my analysis is focused on the impact of the Russian in Serbia and how it influences political discourse and behavior . According to factions there are various viewpoints concerning the relationship between and Russia . This article analyses the two main actors having embraced or the Russian model . The first one is the Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić : aims at changing Serbia progressively into an authoritarian democracy . The one is the pro­Russian movement composed by several political parties and . Its aim is not only to strengthen ties with Russia , it is also to create a new of state based on Putin ’ s theory such as “ power verticality ” and reinforcements traditional values.

Russian tradition ensuring the right to a fair trial

The author based on the analysis of monuments of national legislation comes to a conclusion about the presence in Russia of their traditions to ensure the right to a fair trial. The criterion of fairness of the criminal proceedings is not only the law, but its application in practice. Forming enforcers proper attitude toward the law will ensure proper implementation at criminal proceedings of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen.

Повышение качества отечественного кораблестроения и судоремонта для усиления экономического присутствия России в Арктике

Повышение качества отечественного кораблестроения и судоремонта для усиления экономического присутствия России в Арктике

Российско-китайское сотрудничество в банковской сфере

The article considers current status and trends of Russian-Chinese cooperation in the banking sector. Firstly, it examines scope of activities and main results of specialized inter-state mechanism of deepening inter-bank cooperation between Russia and China. Secondly, a detailed analysis of Chinese banking institutions’ operations in the Russian market is given. The author points out that until now the main reasons for the Chinese banks’ activities in the Russian market have political nature while purely commercial considerations are of secondary importance. The client base mainly consists of Chinese companies and enterprises doing their business in Russia. The revenues of Chinese banks here are primarily generated by interest income. Chinese banks demonstrate low-key approach to searching of new and expansion of existing areas of their business. There is no evidence of major expansion in investment and lending to local businesses, deepening work in the retail sector, etc. Chinese banks retain limited geographical presence in Russia. Thirdly, the scope and trends of Russian banks’ activities in China are analyzed. The author explains extremely weak presence of Russian banks in China (including Hong Kong) and lack of dynamism in their operations in the local market. The key problems are singled out. Mostly, they are determined by the specifics of the Chinese banking sector functioning. In particular, tangible complexity persists in attracting funding from Chinese banks. The documentary operations (letters of credit, factoring) are not yet actively used in the work with the Chinese market. The commercial incentives to work with China remain small for the Russian banks. A general conclusion is drawn that in short term one should not expect any serious penetration of Russian banks into the PRC.

The appropriation of a religion: The case of Zoroastrianism in contemporary Russia

This paper distinguishes between the (ontological) creation, (historical) emergence and (legal) ‘making’ of religion. Many religions claim plausibility by invoking long chains of (invented) traditions, while some post-modern religions positively affirm their invented character. The case of Zoroastrianism in contemporary Russia is discussed as an example of a cross-cultural ‘appropriation’ of religion, rather than a transfer of an extant religion through, for example, migration. This means that inventors, recipients and practitioners mimetically reconstruct ‘Zoroastrianism’, by adapting it to the (new) legal framework that regulates religion in Russia. Once Zoroastrianism had affirmed its presence in Russia, Zoroastrians from other parts of the world established contacts. In the course of events, Russian Zoroastrianism diversified into different tendencies (esoteric, charismatic and nativistic vs modernistic, Internet-based and international). In addition to functioning as a separate religion, Zoroastrianism in Russia has become part of Neopagan and New Age complexes and is appropriated inter-discursively in the academy, the mass media and in different genres of fiction.

Polar Partners or Poles Apart? On the discourses of two US think tanks on Russia's presence in the ‘High North’

The discourses of two US think tanks show how representations of the Artic could make the difference between either an inclusionary or exclusionary Arctic regime. The Brookings Institution stresses that Russia's foreign policy focuses on international law and diplomacy; and recommends multilateral initiatives to address regional tensions. However, the Heritage Foundation emphasises Russia's willingness to use military force and strong language when dealing with Arctic matters, recommends ‘a strong response’ to Russia's policies and stresses the importance of ‘Western’ alliances. The comparison of discourses on the Arctic of two US think tanks lends support to the idea that geographers should play a prominent role in the debate on a regional governance framework. A constructive way to do so is by highlighting and explaining the region's complexity and uncertainty, in order to limit the (re)construction of degeographicalised representations of the Arctic in policy circles.

Russia and Africa in the global struggle for fossil resources

Russia’s cooperation with African countries has been repeatedly considered at the RAS Presidium meetings. Recently, the participation of some world powers in the struggle for the Dark Continent’s fossil resources has become a topical problem. The author of the paper below and participants in the relevant discussion believe that the presence of Russia and sound cooperation with African states is an urgent necessity.

The D&T report

The D&T report

Your SPE: Developing the SPE Partnership in Russia

President's column After a fascinating trip to China, which I wrote about last month, the next stop on my global travels was Moscow. The local members were looking forward to the forthcoming SPE Russian Oil and Gas Technical Conference and Exhibition, where up to 3,000 delegates were expected, more than double the numbers two years ago when the first event was held. I am a strong advocate of diversity among SPE members, ultimately to develop a richer and stronger society. We need to be mindful of different cultures and behaviours and discover ways to reach mutually acceptable solutions. For example, it is essential to understand something about the Russian culture in order to engage in a meaningful discussion about SPE, business, or life in general. Certain SPE values and principles, such as volunteerism, impartiality, non-commercialism and free exchange of information, are not as well understood in Russia. Indeed, I have been told that there is no Russian word for volunteerism—just as there is no Dutch word for embarrassment, so I was able happily to continue conversations that others might find awkward. During my stay, I met with Moscow Section officers and senior personnel at Lukoil (Mr. Ravil Ulfatovich Maganov, First Vice President), Russneft (Mr. Alexander Ledonidovich Korsik, Chairman of the Board), Rosneft (Mr. Alexey Kuznetsov, Vice President of Innovation), Statoil/Hydro (Bengt Lie Hansen, President), Shell (Frank Denelle), Gazprom Academy of Technological Sciences (Prof. Boris Alexandrovich Nikitin, President), Schlumberger (Maurice Dujolle), and Weatherford (Mr. Kamil Zakirov, Vice President for Russia & CIS). All companies welcomed SPE's presence in Russia and promised to support our activities. Lukoil has purchased a subscription to the SPE eLibrary. Some companies plan to award their staff SPE membership in recognition of professional achievement—SPE membership will be seen as a privilege and an honour. It became clear to me that quality rather than quantity is the key to membership recruitment, focusing on people who see the benefits of becoming part of an international organization. These people are likely to be aged 40 and under and are likely to have some fluency in English. For some Russian members, however, particularly the older ones, SPE really adds value only if everything is translated into Russian. All meetings, workshops, and conferences are equipped with simultaneous translation, which allows for the exchange of information between Russian presenters and their English-speaking counterparts and vice versa. This means that the SPE Russian Oil and Gas Technical Conference and Exhibition, for example, can accommodate an international line-up of speakers. And, SPE has just launched a bi-monthly online Russian-language newsletter, called SPE Review: Russia and the Caspian, containing some of the excellent Russian papers presented at various SPE events in recent years. All members in Russia and any Russian-speaking members else-where will benefit from access to this information.

From Disengagement to Active Economic Competition: Russia's Return to the South Caucasus and Central Asia

The significance of Russia in developments in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan) has declined over the past decade; Russia's military and economic power continues to exceed that of these eight states combined, several times over, however. Russia continues to maintain a highly asymmetric structure of energy and trade relations with its southern neighbors, making most of them critically dependent in their economic development and security, and providing Moscow with leverage over internal political developments. Thus, no matter which way Russia turns, it is safe to assume that Russia will continue to have considerable influence on the domestic and foreign policies of these states for some time.Although the single most important geopolitical development during the 1990s was Russia's disengagement from the region and the expansion of other outside powers, the years since Vladimir Putin's ascendancy to the presidency have seen a reemergence of Russian influence. The main features of Russia's presence in the region today are not, however, the military bases or facilities that Moscow continues to maintain but the Russian ruble and actors from Russia's business community, mainly from the energy sector. Whereas Russia's increased foreign economic engagement is related to the country's uninterrupted economic growth since 1998 and the subsequent expansion of some of Russia's giant energy companies into external markets in their quest for profits, economic expansion also reflects a foreign policy that today is more preoccupied with economic competition than military and political preeminence.This article looks at the role of economic factors, particularly energy, as a key component of Russia's complex and evolving relationship with the states of the South Caucasus and Central Asia. The article explains the major trends and changes that have taken place during the Yeltsin and Putin governments to identify the driving forces behind Russian policy toward the states of the region. It then describes current processes, potential, and constraints of Russian economic expansion, and considers some implications for Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) integration and the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in the region.Geopolitics and Change in Russian Foreign PolicyAdmittedly, Russia's policies toward the eight states south of its border differ and are thus difficult to analyze jointly in any coherent way. From a broader security perspective, however, the situations confronting Russia in the region are characterized by a number of common features. Along its southern border, Russia is facing a generally volatile security environment, caused by weak civic and state institutions in the individual states of the region; socioeconomic crises; and ethnic, religious, and political tensions. From the Russian perspective, the most important element uniting the South Caucasus and Central Asia region is that in all eight cases, Russia has been confronted with the same complex geopolitical processthe expansion of other external powers into the region. This geopolitical process has defined Russia's new immediate international environment more than anything else and has had far-reaching implications for its policy choices.In the early 1990s, Russian foreign policy neglected the states south of its border and treated relations with the South Caucasus and Central Asia states more as an extension of internal affairs than as external affairs. Russia's ruling elite was fixated on the United States and, to a lesser extent, Western Europe. In this period, Moscow simply felt that the South Caucasus, and even more so Central Asia, were geographically too remote and, thus, beyond the reach of the West. If anything, Moscow was worried about Turkey's (and to some degree Iran's) supposed historical ambitions in the region. From the mid-1990s onwards, it was the growing frustration over Russia's partnership with the West, especially over plans to enlarge NATO, that shifted its attention to the CIS. …

RUSSIA AND THE CIS IN 2003: Regional Reconstruction

Abstract Russia's position in Asia has been consolidating according to two developments. The first was the restructuring of Russia's presence in the former Soviet Union. Various new groupings have arisen that offer Russia alternatives to the Commonwealth of Independent States. The second was the expansion of Russia's role in the Asia Pacific region and the Korean peninsula, as energy supplier to China and Japan, and as an arms seller.

Dendrolimus sibiricus in the coniferous forests of European Russia at the beginning of the twenty‐first century

The Siberian conifer pest Dendrolimus sibiricus is slowly spreading westwards. It crossed the Urals at the beginning of the twentieth century and reached the Republic of Udmurtiya by the 1950s. Pheromones developed to support control of the pest in Siberia have been used to monitor for its presence in Russia. Results obtained in 2001 show that the pest is now widespread in the Republic of Mari El (500 km east of Moscow), while isolated individuals have been trapped in the Moscow region. No D. sibiricus were trapped in Tver’ Region (between Moscow and Sankt‐Peterburg).

INN0CENTIVE EXPANDS AGAIN

INNOCENTIVE, THE WEBSITE that gives cash rewards for the best solutions to posted scientific problems, has expanded its reach with German and versions of its site. Germany offers a fast-growing community of scientists, professors, and students, the company says, while in Moscow, InnoCentive is working with various national academies and ministries. Russian scientists will benefit by gaining access to problems around the world and potentially collaborating with global firms that have no current research presence in Russia, InnoCentive Chairman Alpheus Bingham says. The worldwide scientific community that InnoCentive has developed continues to grow daily adds Ali Hussein, vice president of marketing. We have 10,000 scientists—more non- US. than U.S.—in our solver base. Hussein joined InnoCentive in August from Amazon.com, where he was director of marketing and development for its wireless initiative. Earlier this summer, InnoCentive created an alliance with a laboratory network in India to rea...

Crypto-Mormons or Pseudo-Mormons? "Latter-Day Saints and Russia's Indigenous New Religious Movements"

Latter-day Saints and Russia's Indigenous New Religious Movements In 1990, when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints established its first mission in Russia, Mormon1 missionaries almost immediately began hearing and passing on stories from native Russians about long-established communities already there (Browning 1997). Whole tribes of native Siberians call themselves Mormons. Many people in villages around Orenburg and Samara are but will deny it if you ask them. My grandfather was a Mormon, but he died long ago, are paraphrases of the more common story types. These rumors intrigued missionaries and Latter-day Saint scholars alike, since the limited missionary resources of the early Church and the effectiveness of both Tsarist and Communist opposition to foreign missionaries kept Latter-day Saints from establishing an official presence in Russia until Gorbachev's reforms in the late 1980s. There is no known historical evidence that the LDS church had any converts in Russia before 1989, except for one pre-Soviet-era family that left the country. Nevertheless, for over a decade, many Latter-day Saint missionaries and members, scholars, and various Russians have assumed a historical link of some sort between reported indigenous Russian and the newly arrived Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some sort of link seemed plausible since locals explained that besides sharing a name, the Russian also often did not smoke or drink, had strong family values, held secret worship services, and may have once practiced something like polygamy. The rumors even alluded to secretly transcribed copies of the Book of Mormon circulating in Russia for decades. Based on such parallels, some Latter-day Saint missionaries tried to reintroduce the local to the official Church but had difficulty finding them. At times they seemed ephemeral. It seemed most stories of lost Mormons in Russia would be best understood simply as new additions to a vibrant body of Latter-day Saint missionary folklore about independent groups in remote areas.2 Such folklore arises despite the Church's great care to go through the front door and obey local laws. For example, eager young missionaries occasionally circulate rumors about secret Church organizational efforts in countries closed to missionaries, such as the Soviet Union to the 1990s and China to the present.3 However, the whole body of stories about Russian cannot be readily dismissed as enthusiastic but spurious rumor. The existence of in various places in Russia long before 1990 is alluded to in the works of early twentieth-century Russian studies scholars such as S. V. Bulgakov and Timofei Ivanovich Butkevich.4 In the 1950s, Russian came to the attention of John Noble. After World War II, this American, who was accused of spying, served time in Vortuka, a Soviet labor camp incarcerating many religious criminals near the Arctic Circle. Noble wrote: Assisting the [Mennonite] bishop in the stockroom was another elderly man, a Mormon. The in Soviet Russia and its satellite countries are a very small group. They are also relentlessly persecuted, due to the fact that the belief in the Book of Mormon originated in the United States . . . and that the international headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. . . . There were only a handful of in our compound but on their days off they would always meet for meditation and prayer (Noble and Everett 1959: 124, 126). Noble suggests that the he came in contact with were the same people who bear this nickname in the United States. However, Bulgakov and Butkevich both claim that some of Russia's pre-1990 Mormons, notably those around Samara, had nothing to do historically with the Utah-headquartered Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but got the nickname Mormon only because they practiced something akin to polygamy. …

Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia. Ed. Gennady Barabtarlo New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. viii, 310 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. $69.95, hard bound.

Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia. Ed. Gennady Barabtarlo New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. viii, 310 pp. Appendix. Notes. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. $69.95, hard bound. - Volume 60 Issue 4

Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia

Chapter 1. Dreams of a German in Russia: German Heroes and Subtexts in The Queen of Spades and Other Works by Pushkin W. Schmid Chapter 2. The Tyranny of Difference: Gogol and the Sacred M. Holquist Chapter 3. Church and State: Dostoevsky and Kant A. von Schonborn Chapter 4. Bakhtin, Benjamin, and Historical Representation of the Holocaust M. Bernard-Donals Chapter 5. From Mitteleuropa to Moscow: Germanic Links with Russian Architecture W. C. Brumfield Chapter 6. Nietzsche's Hidden Voice in Socialist Realism B. G. Rosenthal Chapter 7. Nabokov and Goethe O. Ronen Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia (review)

American universities often combine their German and Russian Departments--probably out of a misty notion that both cultures are situated somewhere in North-eastern Europe and use difficult languages. There are, of course, many more common features between Russian and German culture, but so far especially in the Angloamerican context little has been done to elucidate this interesting and versatile relation. Gennady Barabtarlo's reader with 18 contributions is one of the first attempts to present this problem to an American academic audience. A conceptual problem of this collection of articles lies, however, in its excessively broad range of topics: It covers over 200 years, from the Enlightenment to Soviet prison literature. It would have probably been more revealing to focus all the contributions thematically on one century or one specified aspect of the German-Russian cultural encounter.