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environmental reasons, such as land degradation. An example of a human space and place, which has experienced this change, is Russia. Russia is located northeast of Europe and to the north of Asia. It borders 14 countries, which include Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Latvia, Mongolia, Norway, Poland and Ukraine. The map in figure 1…

Republic increases to 8 per cent, with total volumes of over 1.6 million hectoliters, improving Heineken’s position in the market to number three. Heineken acquired the Rodic Brewery, in Novi Sad, Serbia and of the Syabar Brewing Company, in Bobruysk, Belarus.…

The Red Scare of 1919-1920 and the events taking place in the United Stated after the September 11th terrorist attacks are similar because terrorists were making bombs and filling up air planes with gallons of jet fuel smashing into buildings destroying things and killing people. A nation-wide fear of comrades and other people who hold different beliefs suddenly grabbed the American inner most self in the 1919 following a sequence of terrorist bombing. The nation was filled with fear. Innocent…

Heroes of the Holocaust The holocaust was a horrific period that was all about WWII and Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was looking to create an Aryan Race which, in his eyes, was the perfect race. As time passed, he and his Nazi regime created the Final Solution. This plan included the decimation of the Jewish population. However, there were many who found this solution immoral and inhumane. Some of these brave souls took it into their own hands to protect the lives of the Jews, even if it cost…

Polish cafes organize events in their places. Not only you enjoy your cappuccino and pierogies for a relatively low price, but oftentimes you become a witness of some really cool Indies show with live music and cheer. Back then, when I lived in Belarus, I used to eat a lot of Polish food. I was a type of food I consumed on a weekly basis. It's the taste of my childhood. That's probably another reason why I feel so great every time I visit a Polish…

well. To illustrate, I was born in East Europe in the Republic of Moldova, my grandmother’s maiden name was originated from the Czech Republic, and my grandfather was born in Belarus. Also, my grand-grandmother lived in Siberia, Russian where she got married to an Italian soldier. I cannot consider my ethnicity Czech, Belarus, Russian, Italian to name a few. Because I have never felt that way, even at my home, we have never spoken different language rather than Romanian, or celebrating different…

In Chapter 7, we basically learned traditions, adapted foods, history, food habits, and etiquette of the Central Europe, Soviet Union (FSU), and Scandinavians. An interesting fact is that they were the earliest and largest groups to come the United States. There have been many great influences on American culture, especially in cuisine area. Many of them brought skills of bread baking, dairy farming, meat processing, and beer brewing to the U.S. They inspire others to assimilate their ethnic…

The radiation is present from the origin of the universe, about 20 billion years ago, since intervened in the Big Bang: Big Bang. So that the radioactivity existed on our planet long before the appearance of life on it, every living organism contains traces of radioactive substances. But less than a century that mankind discovered this phenomenon by scientists like Henri Becquerel, Wilhelm Roentgen and Marie and Pierre Curie and others. In 1945 we can say that tragically began the "Nuclear Age"…

Psychosocial impact of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident after the Great East Japan Earthquake <Mental health problem and poor health perception in Chernobyl vs. Fukushima> On 11 March 2011, a gigantic tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake severely damaged Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and then caused a radiation hazard in Fukushima Prefecture. The residents in Fukushima feared the invisible radiation exposure,…

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder argues that in the geographic region that he entitles “Bloodlands”, the area between Germany and Russia, during 1933-1945 under the Stalinist and Nazi regime resulted in over 14 million deaths committed by brutal regimes. His hope in this book is to look at the two regimes and how they respectively killed so many citizens but also to give Eastern Europe the attention it has not yet received from a historical perspective and…