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“Home is where the hearts is”, my home is Kazakhstan one of the ex-soviet union countries where the collapse of the Soviet Union have a severe contradictory economic, social and legal effect on my homeland in spite of 24 years of Independence. My passion to study international law goes back to 1991, when the Soviet Union had collapsed, with Kazakhstan becoming an independent country. One of the aims of our first president was to build new international relations. I was four years old when I…

Russia is in a strategic location and borders 14 other countries, which include but are not limited to China, Mongolia, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Lithuania, and Poland. There are many bodies of water that surround Russia, which include, Sea of Japan, Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Pacific Ocean, and Sea of Okhotsk. The Russian terrain consists…

World War II Should Have Never Happened 60 million people are the number of people who died during the Second World War. The fall of colonialism, rise of communism, development of nuclear weapons, and the Holocaust may all have never happened if WWII was prevented. WWI was the reason for WWII. Effects of WWI to Germany, Italy, and Japan include economic crisis, senses of betrayal, and uncertain futures were all reasons that led to the autocratic powers of the Axis (Germany, Japan, and Italy).…

Political Economy: The economy in Switzerland is one of the most competitive and stable in all of Europe. According to the Economic Freedom Index, Switzerland is the best economy in Europe, and is ranked fourth in the world. (“2016 Index of Economic freedom” 2016) Since there is a distinct lack of natural resources, Switzerland relies on a combination of a highly skilled service and financial sector, along with the exportation of refined luxury items and high end technology. The GDP of…

predominance of the legislature is rated positively [in the index], as there is a very strong correlation between legislative dominance and measures of overall democracy” (2015). According to Freedom House, countries such as Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and Belarus hold restrictive elections which result in regimes that fortify themselves against any type of opposition (2016). Eliminating the opposition from legislature takes the voice of the people away, leaving the other branches of government to…

endured. The novel Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010) by Timothy Snyder, Snyder examines, primarily through secondary sources, (Ahonen 6), that the area which he titles the “bloodlands”, which includes Poland, the Baltic States, Soviet Belarus, Soviet Ukraine and western Soviet Russia, (Snyder xi). It is here, Snyder argues, that the vast majority of casualties, approximately 14 million non-combatants between 1933 and 1945, (Snyder 411), in and around the Second World War…

my opinion on the death penalty is that it should be abolished. I believe the cons out way the pros. The following are a list of countries who still use the death penalty; AFGHANISTAN, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, BAHAMAS, BAHRAIN, BANGLADESH, BARBADOS, BELARUS, BELIZE, BOTSWANA, CHAD, CHINA, COMOROS, CONGO (Democratic Republic), CUBA, DOMINICA, EGYPT, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, ETHIOPIA, GAMBIA, GUATEMALA, GUINEA, GUYANA, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, JAMAICA, JAPAN, JORDAN, KOREA (North), KUWAIT, LEBANON,…

3 - Sports 1. Generally I hate sports. I am not good at motion activities. So I don’t practise any sport. I like walking, but it isn’t type of sport. In summer I play basketball with my neighbours. In winter I was sledging when I was younger. Sports and I aren’t a good combination. 2. I would like to try curling. It is a winter sport, which came from Canada. I think it is easy to understand and not so tiring for my weak physical condition, e. g. running a marathon. I can’t say exactly which…

Sweden. Nels Ofelt was the actual person who emigrated from Sweden to Minnesota. As for the Strenke on my dad’s side (Charles Ofelt), I traced back to Prussia. Prussia was a nation of modern day Poland, East Germany, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia. The Marlow side came from England in the 1700’s. The Strenke side on my mother’s side (Brenda Ofelt) originated from Germany. Turns out my family were incorrect with our ancestry. My ancestors did not originate from what we…

The prevailing view of most Americans is that the collapse of the Soviet Union was primarily caused by the pressures of the arms race during the Cold War. After reading Kotkin 's book Armageddon Averted it is clear that the internal changes that were going on inside the Soviet Union were far more influential in the collapse of the Soviet Union than in any external pressures brought on by the Reagan era arms buildup. The internal changes that were going on in the Soviet Union during this time…