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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden Russian Federation.
1. Rethinking Russian Federalism : The Politics of Intergovernmental Relations and Federal Reforms
Sammanfattning : In Russia federalism and the design of federal institutions have been greatly debated topics ever since the beginning of the 1990s. When the newly elected Russian president Vladimir Putin introduced a number of federal reforms in May 2000 it represented the culmination of a debate on federalism that had been triggered by the political and economic crisis of 1998. LÄS MER
2. Defining, Regulating and Balancing Rights : A Constitutional Law Study of Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Land and Natural Resources in the Russian Federation
Sammanfattning : Article 69 of the Russian Constitution proclaims that the Russian Federation shall guarantee the rights of indigenous minority peoples in accordance with generally recognized principles and norms of international law (in essence, customary international law), as well as international treaties of the Russian Federation. Furthermore, under Article 15(4) of the Constitution, international law is an integral part of the Russian legal system. LÄS MER
3. Phantoms of a Future Past : A Study of Contemporary Russian Anti-Utopian Novels
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to study the evolution of the Russian anti-utopian literary genre in the new post-Soviet environment in the wake of the defunct Soviet socialist utopia. The genre has gained a renewed importance during the 2000s, and has been used variously as a means of dealing satirically with the Soviet past, of understanding the present, and of pondering possible courses into the future for the Russian Federation. LÄS MER
4. Sámi Prehistories : The Politics of Archaeology and Identity in Northernmost Europe
Sammanfattning : Throughout the history of archaeology, the Sámi (the indigenous people in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in the Russian Federation) have been conceptualized as the “Others” in relation to the national identity and (pre)history of the modern states. It is only in the last decades that a field of Sámi archaeology that studies Sámi (pre)history in its own right has emerged, parallel with an ethnic and cultural revival among Sámi groups. LÄS MER
5. Use and governance of non-wood forest products in market and transition economies : case studies from Sweden, Ukraine and the Russian Federation
Sammanfattning : Forests have provided non-wood forest products (NWFPs) that sustain local communities for Millennia. Today, the role of NWFPs for local livelihoods differs in time and space. International policies highlight the importance of NWFPs globally and in European countries. LÄS MER
