Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Amico
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Homosexual Men ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Russian Politics ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Dramatic Growth ◽  
Post Soviet Space

This epilogue reflects on what has changed and what has remained the same with respect to the LGBT landscape in post-Soviet Russia. It begins with a discussion of the death of Igor' Kon, an academic, public intellectual, and activist who played a key role in efforts to depathologize homosexuality in post-Soviet space. It then considers Russian politics and how Russian gay men have remained apolitical in their stances, along with their reactions to the Legislation against Gay Propaganda passed in 2013. It also examines the proliferation of websites addressed to gay and lesbian audiences and how the dramatic growth in internet accessibility has impacted homosexual men. Furthermore, it highlights the increase in sounds and images of some of Russia's popular music performers of (assumed) netraditsionnaia orientatsiia, as well as the ways in which they present the (homo)eroticized male body. The epilogue ends by focusing on Russian activists' campaign to have a gay parade celebrated in the country and suggests that popular music may be regarded as Russia's gay parade.

Post-Soviet Russia as a Product of Half-Disintegration of the USSR: Facts and Interpretation

2021 ◽  
pp. 089692052110645
Author(s):  
David Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Peripheral Part ◽  
Technological Basis ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The article shows the interconnection in the development of social and economic institutes of the USSR and post-soviet Russia and that on the post-Soviet space and in the Russian Federation a system of the semi-peripheral oligarchic bureaucratic capitalism has occurred, of which an economic stagnation is typical. The author proposes a review of the statistical data of three post-soviet evolution stages (1992–1998, 1999–2007, from 2008 until now), the causes of the economic decline of the 1990s, with accentuating the degradation of the technological basis and growing social contradictions, negative economic, and demographic consequences. The causes of negative evolution of Russia’s economy and society are shown. The answer is given to the questions: (1) what social forces were behind the reforms in the USSR and what social forces took over the power after the USSR vanished and (2) why Russia became a dependent, semi-peripheral part of the global economic system.

Roll Over, Tchaikovsky!

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Amico
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Technical Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Theory ◽  
Homosexual Men ◽  
Male Homosexuality ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
And Gender

Centered on the musical experiences of homosexual men in St. Petersburg and Moscow, this ground-breaking study examines how post-Soviet popular music both informs and plays off of a corporeal understanding of Russian male homosexuality. Drawing upon ethnography, musical analysis, and phenomenological theory, the book offers an expert technical analysis of Russian rock, pop, and estrada music, dovetailing into an illuminating discussion of homosexual men's physical and bodily perceptions of music. The book outlines how Russian homophobia and gender systems interact, often inconsistently, with popular music. Performers sustain a delicate literal and physical dance with cultural expectations. It also outlines how popular music performers use song lyrics, drag, physical movements, images of women, sexualized male bodies, and other tools and tropes to implicitly or explicitly express sexual orientation through performance. Finally, the book uncovers how such performances help Russian gay men to create their own social spaces and selves, in meaningful relation to others with whom they share a “nontraditional orientation.”

Trends of Regional Integration on the Post-Soviet Space: Results of Quantitative Analysis

2010 ◽  
pp. 94-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Vinokurov ◽  
A. Libman
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Trade Integration ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Small Countries ◽  
Economic Interaction ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The paper applies a new dataset of the System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration to evaluate the changes of level and direction of economic interaction of the post-Soviet states in the last decade. It analyzes the integration dynamics in the area of trade and migration as well as on three functional markets of agricultural goods, electricity and educational services. The paper concludes that the level of trade integration on the post-Soviet space continues declining, while there is a rapid increase of the labor market integration. Three largest countries of the Eurasian Economic Community - Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan - demonstrate positive integration dynamics, but small countries maintain the leading position in the area of post-Soviet integration.

THE CONCEPT OF THE BALTIC-BLACK SEA ARC AND UKRAINIAN FOREIGN POLICY (1990 - EARLY 2000)

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Alexandr S. Levchenkov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Caspian Region ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Eastern Baltic ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The article analyzes the influence of the concepts of the Intermarium and the Baltic-Black Sea Arc on the formation of Ukraine’s foreign policy in 1990 – early 2000. The use of these concepts in American, European and Ukrainian geopolitical thought, which historically included the idea of opposing Russian influence in the region, contributed to the increase in tension and was aimed at further disintegration of the Western flank of the post-Soviet space. The article proves that the design of the Euro-Atlantic vector of Ukraine’s foreign policy was already active under the first two Ukrainian presidents – Leonid Kravchuk (1991–1994) and Leonid Kuchma (1994–2005). One of the concrete attempts to implement the idea of forming a common political, economic, transport and logistics space of the Black Sea-Caspian region with a promising expansion of the cooperation zone to the whole of Eastern Europe and the Eastern Baltic during the presidency of Leonid Kuchma was the foundation and launch of a new regional organization, Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, better known as GUAM (composed by the initial letters of names of member states – Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova; when Uzbekistan was also a member of Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, the name of the organization was GUUAM), which is an alternative to Eurasian projects with the participation of Russia.

PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTOF MILITARY-POLITICAL COOPERATION OF THE COUNTRIESOF THE POST-SOVIET SPACE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
U.S. ALIYEV
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
World Order ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Security Treaty ◽  
Political Cooperation ◽  
The World ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Economic Union ◽  
Post Soviet Space

In the context of the formation of a new world order, there is a need to make changes to the development strategy of the Eurasian Economic Union and, even more broadly, integration processes in the post-Soviet space. These changes should take into account the changes taking place in the world, the emergence of new properties of world politics, which are often generically called turbulence. The components of turbulence are conflictness and uncertainty, but this is not the whole list, there are other components. On the example of the Transnistrian conflict settlement, it is shown that success in this process is possible if we are not confined to the conflict itself, but we act on the basis of Russias and the European Unions mutual desire to reduce conflictness in the world and in the European region. Uncertainties can be contrasted with the emergence of military-political factor as the leading one of Eurasian integration in the form of rapprochement and the gradual merger of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

CONTROLLING TOOLS IN MODELING THE EAEU TAX LOAD

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
V. D. KOVALEVA ◽  
◽  
Z. R. KOCHKAROVA ◽  
L. V. IONIDI ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Tax Burden ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Level Of Economic Development ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of taxation of the EAEU countries, the methods of tax burden optimization are disclosed, the feasibility of using the tax burden indicator as a criterion for the level of economic development of a business entity is substantiated, the tax burden of the countries of the Eurasian and post-Soviet space is analyzed, a tax burden optimization technique based on controlling tools is proposed.

MILITARY COMPONENT OF THE POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE "STRATEGIC TRIANGLE" RUSSIA – CHINA – USA: REGIONAL ASPECTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 80-95
Author(s):  
D. V. GORDIENKO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The World ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Military ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The military component of the Russian Federation's policy in the "strategic triangle" Russia-China-USA occupies an important place in the implementation of Russian aspirations in various regions of the world. The purpose of this article is to assess the impact of the military component of the Russian Federation's policy in the Russia-China- US strategic triangle on the implementation of current Russian policy in the post-Soviet space, in the Asia-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic regions, in the Arctic, the Middle East and other regions of the world. The paper examines the influence of the military component of the Russian Federation's policy in the Russia- China-USA “strategic triangle”, proposes an approach to a comparative assessment of this influence, which allows identifying the priorities of Russian policy in the post-Soviet space, in the Asia-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic regions, in the Arctic, on The Middle East and other regions of the world. A comparative assessment of the influence of the military component of the Russian Federation's policy in the Russia-China-USA “strategic triangle” can be used to substantiate recommendations to the military-political leadership of our country. The article concludes that the military component of Russian policy occupies a dominant position in the implementation of the current policy of the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet space, in the Asia- Pacific and Euro-Atlantic regions, in the Arctic, the Middle East and in other regions of the world.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document