This paper investigates secessionist conflicts that occurred in Kazakhstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Each of these states contains mature separatist movements, several of which have achieved the status of what can be called a semi-sovereign entity. All six separatist mo…
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A scarce body of scientific knowledge is available on IPV in the transitional countries of the former Soviet Union/fSU and the magnitude, risk factors, and acute and lifetime health consequences of IPV remain unknown in the fSU region. The fact that the transitional countries of…
This thesis examines factors that underscored higher education reforms in Central and Eastern Europe during the transition period from 1990 to 2005. The study explores higher education reforms in three national settings—Hungary, Romania and the Republic of Moldova, and presents …
The first chapter constructs the monthly current account factor that is a good proxy for quarterly current accounts, and it examines the effect of the current account factor on the US term structure. Using the Generalized Method of Moments, I estimate the term structure with inf…
This dissertation studies the rise of rural-based cultural nationalism in the USSR in the years between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the break-up of the USSR in 1991. It analyzes the lives and work of a multinational group of writers who were part of a massive wave of rural-t…
Background: Although drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) exerts heavy disease burden worldwide, especially in developing countries, it still makes up a minority of all TB cases. To efficiently assess the performance of various rapid drug susceptibility tests, selecting patients …
This study aims to identify whether entertainment media broadcast in Republic Moldova, which struggles with its identity crisis, contains frames that represent belonging to a particular national identity. Secondly, the study is preoccupied with the cinematic representations that…