amusing issue in the ‘Moscow news’(“Moskovskie novosti”) newspaper and decided to tell you about the most funny political parties of the world. 1. The party of beer lovers‚ Russia. It’s the most widespread among the weirdest ones. It exists in Belarus‚ Ukraine‚ Poland as well. In Russia it was created in 1993 and even took a part in the Parliamentary elections in 1995 and got 0‚62% of votes. In their program they said that both beer lovers and one who want to assert NOT to drink it may attach
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in global relations. The disparity of wealth between core and periphery countries is staggering‚ with 15% of the global population enjoying 75% of the world’s annual income. The Core The ’core’ consists of Europe (excluding Russia‚ Ukraine‚ and Belarus) ‚ the United States‚ Canada‚ Australia‚ New Zealand‚ Japan‚ South Korea‚ and Israel. Within this region is where most of the positive characteristics of globalization typically occur: transnational links‚ modern development (i.e. higher wages‚ access
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Introduction In the last hundred years‚ life expectancy doubled and many deadly illnesses were eradicated. The world would be a better place to live‚ had the astonishing scientific discoveries not been devalued with building the atomic bomb an invention that can destroy life on earth in an instant. Fredrick Soddy‚ who together with Ernest Rutherford discovered in 1901 that radioactivity involved the release of energy‚ described an atomic future in which humanity could transform a desert continent
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Atl Econ J (2014) 42:317–332 DOI 10.1007/s11293-014-9418-2 The Effect of the Global Financial Crisis on Transition Economies Anna Shostya Published online: 1 June 2014 # International Atlantic Economic Society 2014 Abstract This research offers new insights into the effect of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2009 on the countries that used to be part of the Soviet bloc by focusing on a cross-regional comparison. Twenty-eight countries are grouped according to different criteria and the corresponding
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Health Policy Building of the global movement for health equity: from Santiago to Rio and beyond Michael Marmot‚ Jessica Allen‚ Ruth Bell‚ Peter Goldblatt Health inequalities are present throughout the world‚ both within and between countries. The Commission on Social Determinants of Health drew attention to dramatic social gradients in health within most countries and made proposals for action. These inequalities are not inevitable. The purpose of this article is to report on activity that
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his ideas were rejected by the U.S.S.R. and only resurfaced after the Cold War ended in 1991. Vygotsky’s theory has exceedingly influenced education in Russia and in other countries. Lev Vygotsky was born in Orsha‚ Western Russia‚ which is now Belarus in 1896. Vygotsky was born into a typical middle-class Jewish family and grew up in a predominantly Jewish town of Gomel‚ roughly four hundred miles from Moscow (Kouzlin‚ 1990). He studied and graduated law from the University of Moscow on a Jewish
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DOUBLE TAX AVOIDANCE AGGREMENT SECTION 90 OF INCOME TAX 73 India has comprehensive Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAA ) with 79 countries. This means that there are agreed rates of tax and jurisdiction on specified types of income arising in a country to a tax resident of another country. Under the Income Tax Act 1961 of India‚ there are two provisions‚ Section 90 and Section 91‚ which provide specific relief to taxpayers to save them from double taxation. Section 90 is for taxpayers who
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Explain this statement. Does Economic Development always lead to Improvements in Livind Standards? Economic growth and economic development are often thought to be synonymous but although the two are closely linked‚ there are crucial differences in their meanings. Economic growth is defined as ’a rise in the total output (goods or services) produced by a country’. It is measured by the percent rate of increase in the gross domestic product (GDP). Economic development as defined by Todaro is "not
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Many of these contributions hidden from modern day textbooks due to Stalin’s brutal and ruthless style of leadership. “To this day the war is remembered very vividly in Russia‚ Belarus‚ and other parts of the former Soviet Union as the "Great Patriotic War‚" and May 9‚ "Victory Day‚" is one of Russia’s biggest national holidays” (New World Encyclopedia). Stalin’s involvement and overall impact in WWII vastly shortened the war and
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Scientific Concept: Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Javier Pabe INT1-Task1 History of evolution before Darwin. Evolution originally referred to the supposed series of changes that a species was predetermined to undergo‚ in the same way that an embryo is preprogrammed to develop. Before Darwin‚ transmutation of species generally meant that a species as a whole changed into a more complex species through some (unspecified) process. Darwin introduced the “Origin of species” theory in 1859.
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