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The Russian Perspective on Developments in the International Arena and the Middle East

July 4, 2017 | Andrey Bystritskiy

Russia has become a major player in the Middle East: its military presence in Syria and growing ties with Iran have played an important role in the region.

Judaism and Organized Jewish Movements in the USSR/CIS after World War II: The Ukrainian Case

April 30, 1999

After the decades of discrimination against organized Jewish life in the Soviet Union, the present period shows creation and rapid development of Jewish national organizations and institutional infrastructure of Jewish communities in most of the post-Soviet states, including Ukraine. At the same time, there is an evident contradiction between an intensive "Jewish politics" within the community and wide representation of Jews among the local elite, on one hand, and a very poor representation of the Jewish population as an institutionalized ethnic group in the state political arena. The reason for this is found in the history of Jewish life in Soviet Ukraine after World War II, including the experience of the creation and existence of legal (state-sponsored), illegal (underground national and human rights organizations), and quasi-legal (religious communities) Jewish social institutions in a hostile social and political environment.

The CIS Economy in Transition

August 2, 1992

The USSR After the Summer of 1991: Some Lessons

December 15, 1991 | Daniel J. Elazar

Revolutionary Times in the Soviet Union- 20 Months Later

June 2, 1991 | Irwin Cotler

Soviet Jewry: An Update from the Field

December 2, 1990

The Changing Face of the USSR: A Traveler’s Notebook

March 1, 1989 | David Clayman

Idealology and Raison D’Etat in Israel’s Relations with the USSR

July 1, 1988