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The Kremlin Playbook

Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Heather A. Conley,James Mina,Ruslan Stefanov,Martin Vladimirov

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The Kremlin Playbook

Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Heather A. Conley,James Mina,Ruslan Stefanov,Martin Vladimirov

Russia has cultivated an opaque web of economic and political patronage across the Central and Eastern European region that the Kremlin uses to influence and direct decisionmaking. This report from the CSIS Europe Program, in partnership with the Bulgarian Center for the Study of Democracy, is the result of a 16-month study on the nature of Russian influence in five case countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Latvia, and Serbia.

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The Kremlin Playbook 2

The Enablers

By: Heather A. Conley,Ruslan Stefanov,Donatienne Ruy,Martin Vladimirov

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The Kremlin Playbook 2

The Enablers

By: Heather A. Conley,Ruslan Stefanov,Donatienne Ruy,Martin Vladimirov

In The Kremlin Playbook 2: The Enablers, the CSIS Europe Program and the Center for the Study of Democracy explored whether some of these jurisdictions and companies could be enabling forces that amplify Russian malign economic influence in some countries in Europe. The study analyzed the following case study countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Montenegro, the Netherlands, and Romania. The report shows that some countries facilitate or enable Russian malign economic influence, and by doing so these enablers actively participate in the weakening and discrediting of their own democratic structures. The Kremlin Playbook 2 concludes that Russian malign economic influence and illicit finance operate in a financial gray zone that is a clear and present danger to U.S. national security as well as transatlantic security. To push back against this threat, the United States and its European allies must take decisive action to limit Russia’s malign behavior in their financial systems. Only transparency and enforcement of our rule of law can guarantee trust in the system and rebuild confidence in democratic institutions.

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144228112X

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From Spinors to Supersymmetry

By: Herbi K. Dreiner,Howard E. Haber,Stephen P. Martin

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From Spinors to Supersymmetry

By: Herbi K. Dreiner,Howard E. Haber,Stephen P. Martin

Supersymmetry is an extension of the successful Standard Model of particle physics; it relies on the principle that fermions and bosons are related by a symmetry, leading to an elegant predictive structure for quantum field theory. This textbook provides a comprehensive and pedagogical introduction to supersymmetry and spinor techniques in quantum field theory. By utilising the two-component spinor formalism for fermions, the authors provide many examples of practical calculations relevant for collider physics signatures, anomalies, and radiative corrections. They present in detail the component field and superspace formulations of supersymmetry and explore related concepts, including the theory of extended Higgs sectors, models of grand unification, and the origin of neutrino masses. Numerous exercises are provided at the end of each chapter. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this volume provides a clear and unified treatment of theoretical concepts that are at the frontiers of high energy particle physics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009347535

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9781009347532

Volterra and Integral Equations of Vector Functions

By: Martin Vath

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Volterra and Integral Equations of Vector Functions

By: Martin Vath

Develops and applies topological and algebraic methods to study abstract Volterra operators and differential equations arising in models for ""real-world"" phenomena in physics, biology, and a host of other disciplines. Presents completely new results that appear in book form for the first time.

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0824703421

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The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

By: Martin Duberman

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The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

By: Martin Duberman

A rich and revelatory biography of one of the crucial cultural figures of the twentieth century. Lincoln Kirstein’s contributions to the nation’s life, as both an intellectual force and advocate of the arts, were unparalleled. While still an undergraduate, he started the innovative literary journal Hound and Horn, as well as the modernist Harvard Society for Contemporary Art—forerunner of the Museum of Modern Art. He brought George Balanchine to the United States, and in service to the great choreographer’s talent, persisted, against heavy odds, in creating both the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. Among much else, Kirstein helped create Lincoln Center in New York, and the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut; established the pathbreaking Dance Index and the country’s first dance archives; and in some fifteen books proved himself a brilliant critic of art, photography, film, and dance. But behind this remarkably accomplished and renowned public face lay a complex, contradictory, often tortured human being. Kirstein suffered for decades from bipolar disorder, which frequently strained his relationships with his family and friends, a circle that included many notables, from W. H. Auden to Nelson Rockefeller. And despite being married for more than fifty years to a woman whom he deeply loved, Kirstein had a wide range of homosexual relationships throughout the course of his life. This stunning biography, filled with fascinating perceptions and incidents, is a major act of historical reclamation. Utilizing an enormous amount of previously unavailable primary sources, including Kirstein’s untapped diaries, Martin Duberman has rendered accessible for the first time a towering figure of immense complexity and achievement.

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Knopf

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0307549674

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9780307549679

Russian Oil Enterprises in Europe

Investments and Regional Influence

By: Tomáš Vlček,Martin Jirušek

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Russian Oil Enterprises in Europe

Investments and Regional Influence

By: Tomáš Vlček,Martin Jirušek

This book analyzes motivation, investments, and influence of the Russian Federation and Russian companies in the European oil sector, specifically, the Southeastern Europe. The main idea of the book is to highlight economic and political logic of the Russian activities in the oil sector as well as to provide a brief analysis of the situation in the natural gas sector. The findings help to understand the general code of conduct of Russian energy companies and their potential ties to their homeland government. This project will appeal to academics, researchers, graduate students, field professionals, and everyone who is interested in Russian and European geopolitics.

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Springer

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3030198391

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Cosmic Ray Physics

An Introduction to The Cosmic Laboratory

By: Veronica Bindi,Mercedes Paniccia,Martin Pohl

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Cosmic Ray Physics

An Introduction to The Cosmic Laboratory

By: Veronica Bindi,Mercedes Paniccia,Martin Pohl

This book introduces you to the physics of cosmic rays, charged particles which reach us from known – and maybe unknown – sources in the cosmos. Starting from a brief history of this fascinating field, it reviews what we know about the creation of elements in the Big Bang and inside stars. It explains cosmic accelerators reaching fabulous energies. It follows the life cycle of cosmic rays all the way from their sources to detection near, on or below Earth. The central three chapters cover what we know about them at the level of the solar system, the Milky Way and the Universe at large. Up-to-date experimental results are presented in detail, showing how they are obtained and interpreted. The book provides an accessible overview of this lively and diversified research field. It will be of interest to undergraduate physics students beginning their studies on astronomy, cosmology, and particle physics. It is also accessible to the general public by concentrating mathematical and technical detail into Focus Boxes. Key features: Complete introductory overview of cosmic ray physics Covers the origins, acceleration, transport mechanisms and detection of these particles Mathematical and technical detail is kept separate from the main text

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CRC Press

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1000850870

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9781000850871

First Steps: The Caro-Kann

By: Andrew Martin

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First Steps: The Caro-Kann

By: Andrew Martin

The Caro-Kann Defence arises after the moves 1 e4 c6. With this first move Black (as is also the case with the French Defence – 1 e4 e6) plans 2 ... d5, establishing a well-protected central pawn. The Caro-Kann has a reputation as a rock solid defence that minimises the risk of Black being subjected to undue early pressure. Rather than inviting the opponent to engage in immediate warfare, Black focuses on completing development comfortably and postponng the serious battle until the middlegame. It is notable that the White systems which try to batter the Caro-Kann into early submission are highly double-edged and often rebound badly. First Steps is a new opening series and is ideal for improving players who want simple and straightforward explanations. First Steps emphasizes: * the basic principles * the basic strategies * the key tricks and traps First Steps books are based around carefully selected instructive games which demonstrate exactly what both sides are trying to achieve. There is enough theory to enable the improving player to get to grips with the opening without feeling overwhelmed. If you want to take up a new opening, First Steps is the ideal place to start.

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Everyman Chess

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1781943516

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9781781943519

Opening Repetoire: The Open Games with Black

By: Martin Kokander

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Opening Repetoire: The Open Games with Black

By: Martin Kokander

1...e5 enjoys an excellent reputation as a reliable defence against White’s most popular opening choice, 1 e4. However, anyone who is primed to face the Ruy Lopez must also be prepared to face a number of White alternatives. This collection of variations make up the Open Games and include not only popular choices such as the Italian Game, Scotch Game, Bishop’s Opening, King’s Gambit, Vienna Game and Four Knights, but also many tricky sidelines and some wild and wacky gambits. Many of these might not be theoretically strong but can be both daunting and dangerous for the uninformed player. In this book, FIDE Master Martin Lokander tackles all these lines head on and presents a practical repertoire for Black in the Open Games. This book tells you everything you need to know about facing the Open Games when White avoids the Ruy Lopez. Essential reading for 1...e5 playersEvery opening bar the Ruy Lopez is coveredPacked with new ideas and critical analysis

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Everyman Chess

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1781941947

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Financial Reporting and Performance Analysis

By: Toma Ayuba,Martin Kabwe,Peter Njoroge Kibe,Kiage Job Abuga,Juvenary Mutayabarwa

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Financial Reporting and Performance Analysis

By: Toma Ayuba,Martin Kabwe,Peter Njoroge Kibe,Kiage Job Abuga,Juvenary Mutayabarwa

TOPICS IN THE BOOK Impact of Environmental and Social Disclosure on Return on Asset of Listed Oil and Gas Companies in Nigeria Assessment of Financial Reporting Quality in a Developing Country Using Nice Qualitative Characteristics Measurement Effect of International Financial Reporting Standards Compliance on Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from a Developing Country Profitability, Leverage, Efficiency and Financial Distress in Commercial and Manufacturing State Corporations in Kenya Liquidity Capacity and Financial Performance of Commercial Banks in Kenya Factors Affecting First Year Students’ Performance in Fundamental Accounting Course: Case Study Kampala International University in Tanzania (KIUT)

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IPR Journals and Book Publishers

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9914752837

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Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia

Legacies, Forms and Threats

By: Miroslav Mareš,Martin Laryš,Jan Holzer

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Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia

Legacies, Forms and Threats

By: Miroslav Mareš,Martin Laryš,Jan Holzer

Militancy continues to be characteristic of many supporters of the Russian far right, encompassing a belligerent rhetoric, a strong perception of participants as political warriors and often the use of physical violence. How serious a threat does Russian militant right-wing extremism pose to Russia and the World, and how has the level of threat changed over time? This book addresses this question by exploring right-wing extremism in Russia, its historical context and its resurgence over the past thirty years. Outlining the legacies and forms presented by current right-wing extremism, with a particular focus on militant extremism, it employs a historical, descriptive method to analyse the threats and risks posed. Presented within the framework of research on extremism and political violence related to the Russian political thought, the book outlines the key criteria of identifying threats, such as the level of violence, ability to gain supporters and penetration of governing elites. Primarily aimed at researchers and academics in political science, extremism, security studies and the history of Russia and Eastern, Central and South-East Europe, this book will also be of interest to political journalists and practitioners in international security.

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Routledge

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0429953623

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9780429953620

Graduate Course In Algebra, A - Volume 2

By: Ioannis Farmakis,Martin Moskowitz

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Graduate Course In Algebra, A - Volume 2

By: Ioannis Farmakis,Martin Moskowitz

This comprehensive two-volume book deals with algebra, broadly conceived. Volume 1 (Chapters 1-6) comprises material for a first year graduate course in algebra, offering the instructor a number of options in designing such a course. Volume 1, provides as well all essential material that students need to prepare for the qualifying exam in algebra at most American and European universities. Volume 2 (Chapters 7-13) forms the basis for a second year graduate course in topics in algebra. As the table of contents shows, that volume provides ample material accommodating a variety of topics that may be included in a second year course. To facilitate matters for the reader, there is a chart showing the interdependence of the chapters.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9813142693

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9789813142695

Digital Innovations for Mass Communications

Engaging the User

By: Paul Martin Lester

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Digital Innovations for Mass Communications

Engaging the User

By: Paul Martin Lester

In every field of mass communications—advertising, entertainment studies, journalism, public relations, radio-television-film, tourism, and visual reporting—professionals understand the importance of storytelling. Regardless of whether the finished product is a commercial, an in-depth investigative piece, a public service campaign, an independent documentary, a travelogue, or a collection of photographs, effective storytelling requires a combination of creativity, empathy, and expertise. Through the innovative technologies and techniques described in this textbook, students will learn how to turn passive readers and viewers into engaged and regular users. The sixteen chapters each include a brief introduction, assignments, simple-to-follow step-by-step exercises, and sources for additional information in which users will learn to produce apps, informational graphics, quick response codes, quizzes, simulations, smartphone and table icons, social media campaigns, three-dimensional pictures, and video. Students will work with the following programs: Blogger, Dreamweaver, Excel, Facebook, GeoCommons, Google Maps, Illustrator, Imgur, iMovie, Infogram, iShowU, JavaScript, JustGive, Kaywa, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, Onvert, Photoshop, Pixel Resort, QuickTime, Reddit, Second Life, SurveyMonkey, TheAppBuilder, Twitter, Vizualize, Wikipedia, Word, WordPress, and YouTube. When digital innovations are added to traditional print and screen presentations, a media user is not only allowed to interact with the information but can also physically engage with the story displayed. Giving students the tools they need to transform their storytelling in this manner is the ultimate goal of this textbook.

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1135097046

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Nonoscillation and Oscillation Theory for Functional Differential Equations

By: Ravi P. Agarwal,Martin Bohner,Wan-Tong Li

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Nonoscillation and Oscillation Theory for Functional Differential Equations

By: Ravi P. Agarwal,Martin Bohner,Wan-Tong Li

This book summarizes the qualitative theory of differential equations with or without delays, collecting recent oscillation studies important to applications and further developments in mathematics, physics, engineering, and biology. The authors address oscillatory and nonoscillatory properties of first-order delay and neutral delay differential eq

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CRC Press

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0203025741

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9780203025741

Who's Who in Russia since 1900

By: Martin McCauley,Martin Mccauley

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Who's Who in Russia since 1900

By: Martin McCauley,Martin Mccauley

Who's Who is Russia and the Soviet Union is a unique reference guide which examines the leading political, economic, cultural, military, scientific and sporting personalities from 1900-1991. Through analysis of figures such as Stalin, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Ratushinskaya and Sakharov, a comprehensive portrait of Russian and Soviet society in this era emerges. The book takes the reader up to the collapse of the Soviet Union and provides: - detailed biographical information on each leading figure - bibliographical references with entries as an aid to further research - a comprehensive glossary of Russian terms, concepts and institutions and a useful chronology of events - an accessible and user-friendly A-Z layout - an invaluable guide for students, teachers, researchers, and the general reader alike.

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1134772130

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Graduate Course In Algebra, A - Volume 1

By: Ioannis Farmakis,Martin Moskowitz

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Graduate Course In Algebra, A - Volume 1

By: Ioannis Farmakis,Martin Moskowitz

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9813142650

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Hysteresis and Phase Transitions

By: Martin Brokate,Jürgen Sprekels

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Hysteresis and Phase Transitions

By: Martin Brokate,Jürgen Sprekels

Hysteresis is an exciting and mathematically challenging phenomenon that oc curs in rather different situations: jt, can be a byproduct offundamental physical mechanisms (such as phase transitions) or the consequence of a degradation or imperfection (like the play in a mechanical system), or it is built deliberately into a system in order to monitor its behaviour, as in the case of the heat control via thermostats. The delicate interplay between memory effects and the occurrence of hys teresis loops has the effect that hysteresis is a genuinely nonlinear phenomenon which is usually non-smooth and thus not easy to treat mathematically. Hence it was only in the early seventies that the group of Russian scientists around M. A. Krasnoselskii initiated a systematic mathematical investigation of the phenomenon of hysteresis which culminated in the fundamental monograph Krasnoselskii-Pokrovskii (1983). In the meantime, many mathematicians have contributed to the mathematical theory, and the important monographs of 1. Mayergoyz (1991) and A. Visintin (1994a) have appeared. We came into contact with the notion of hysteresis around the year 1980.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461240484

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Advances in Nuclear Science and Technology

By: Jeffery Lewins,Martin Becker

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Advances in Nuclear Science and Technology

By: Jeffery Lewins,Martin Becker

Dur previous volume 14 was devoted to an exposition of the topics of sensitivity analysis and uncertainty theory with its development and application in nuclear reactor physics at the heart of the discussion. In this volume, we return to our customary format as a selection of topics of current interest, authored by those working in the field. These topics range from the theoretical underpinnings of the (linear) Boltzmann transport equation to a resume of our ex pectations in what still may be thought of as twenty-first century technology, the world's fusion reactor program. In the first article of this volume, we have Protopop escu's analysis of the structure of the Boltzmann equation and its solutions for energy and space-dependent problems of an eigenvalue nature. There long has been a curious "folk history" effect in this area~ Wigner and Weinberg could de scribe it as "what was generally known was generally untrue". This account of the Boltzmann equation surely will show that a rigorous basis for our expectations of certain solutions can be well-founded on analysis. Ely Gelbard's review of the methods of determining diffusion-type parameters in complex geometries where simple diffusion theory would be welcome has required just as much rigor to determine how such modeling can be made accurate, although to a more immediate and practical purpose. The two articles can be seen as interesting contrasts, facets of the same underlying problem showing apparently different aspects of the same central core.

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1461337577

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The Kremlin Playbook 2

The Enablers

By: Heather A. Conley,Ruslan Stefanov,Donatienne Ruy,Martin Vladimirov

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The Kremlin Playbook 2

The Enablers

By: Heather A. Conley,Ruslan Stefanov,Donatienne Ruy,Martin Vladimirov

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144228112X

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Shcharansky, Hero of Our Time

By: Martin Gilbert

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Shcharansky, Hero of Our Time

By: Martin Gilbert

Biography of the Russian dissident whose campaigns in the Soviet Union on behalf of his fellow Jews resulted in his arrest and imprisonment in 1978. Reconstructing Shcharansky's nine-year ordeal against the Soviet system, the story illuminates his faith and determination as well as the unflagging efforts of his family and friends to secure his release and bring the plight of Russian Jews to world attention.

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Viking Adult

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0670814180

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9780670814183

The Kremlin Playbook

Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Heather A. Conley,James Mina,Ruslan Stefanov,Martin Vladimirov

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The Kremlin Playbook

Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Heather A. Conley,James Mina,Ruslan Stefanov,Martin Vladimirov

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The Kremlin Playbook

Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Heather A. Conley,James Mina,Martin Vladimirov,Ruslan Stefanov

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The Kremlin Playbook

Understanding Russian Influence in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Heather A. Conley,James Mina,Martin Vladimirov,Ruslan Stefanov

Russia has cultivated an opaque web of economic and political patronage across the Central and Eastern European region that the Kremlinuses to influence and direct decisionmaking. This report from the CSIS Europe Program, in partnership with the Bulgarian Center for the Study of Democracy, is the result of a 16-month study on the nature of Russian influence in five case countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Latvia, and Serbia.

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