The system of education in Russia Russia has a long-standing tradition in high-quality education for all citizens. It probably has also one of the best mass-education systems in the world producing a literacy rate (98%) exceeding most Western European countries. That’s why I’d like to speak about it. The education in Russia is divided into 3 big parts: pre-school education‚ secondary school and university-level education. Pre-school education. According to the statistics‚ about 70% of children
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Russian History 1881 – 1914 What was Russia like in 1881? • 82% of the population were illiterate peasant farmers. • No technology was used on farms – subsistence farming. • Largest standing army in Europe. • No political parties and the press was heavily censored. • Fierce loyalty to the Tsar – often enforced by brutal secret police. • Royalty owned most of the land – Tsar’s estate was larger than some countries. • 1861 – Tsar Alexander II freed
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During the 1860’s and 1870’s Russia had a growing underground movement of young‚ intelligent people growing discontent with the social and political disadvantages that the country was going through. Many in the government‚ especially the Tsar Alexander II was trying to curve revolutionary sentiment by reforming the government and introducing new measures to improve Russian society. To many young Russians that grew disaffected they saw the reforms as being too little too late and that further radical
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regime influenced judges to lean toward the prosecution adding leverage to the old saying “Guilty” until proven innocent. This methodology is still enforced by most of the older judges who were once prosecutors themselves. The business culture of Russia stems around superiority. Firm handshakes are a sign of power and coincide with their dictatorship attitudes. They are resistant to the western civilized ways which is a measure of
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Russia Review Sheet Market Economy: an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices Command Economy: an economy in which production‚ investment‚ prices‚ and incomes are determined centrally by a government. Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production‚ distribution‚ and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Traditional: A traditional economy is
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the narrator explores the lake he runs into several people who live off the lake and use it for survival. Mikhal Grachev The director of the limn logical institute in Irkutsk‚ tells how 200 square kilometers have been polluted by the cellulose. Russia government won’t do anything about it because it brings the country money. Natives at the Buddhist datson and monastery near the buryat capital live off the lake. They have been struggling to obtain their culture after decades of darkness brought
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Wanting to push the nation toward a more liberal and democratic rule‚ these revolutionaries led the first attempt in modern Russian history‚ influencing Russian nationalism. The ideas from the Enlightenment motivated men to “save” Russia from their absolutist regime. Unfortunately‚ the Decembrists disagreed on multiple counts‚ and this disorganization was a major factor in their failure to overthrow the Russian czars. A majority of these men were punished by the czar and some even
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affecting the stability of Russia and Nicholas II’s autocratic regime. Soon after the 1905 revolution‚ there was still much tension present in Russia in the early years‚ but by 1914 greater stability had been achieved through a series of social‚ economical and political policies that had been brought about‚ although the underlying factor was that the causes of the revolution were not dealt with properly‚ thus an illusion of stability was created by 1914. Similarly to Witte‚ when Stolypin came into
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means of communication‚ 20th century nationalism has swept around the world to become the greatest lever of change in our day. Industrialism is an economic and social system based on the development of large-scale industries and marked by the production of large quantities of inexpensive manufactured goods and the concentration of employment in urban factories. Industrialism started as farmers needed to produce more and more crops to support the increasing population. With the inventions like the seed
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Rural Khmer house Despite indoor and outdoor temperatures of 36°C and up to 80% relative humidity the old rural Khmer houses are very comfortable‚ both at ground level and on the upper floor. In spite of the absence of electric or mechanical air conditioning‚ a draught-free environment appears to be attained simply by means of natural ventilation. Typically‚ rural Khmer houses are rectangular two-storey buildings‚ varying in size from four by six metres to about six by ten metres. The basic
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