Abstract To understand the Russia / Ukraine Conflict one must understand how the fall of the Soviet Union created a power vacuum in both Russia and the former Soviet satellite states.  Both Russia and Ukraine were looted by mob-connected businessmen during the 1990s.  The oligarchs in Russia used their influence and money to privatize industries and amass great personal wealth.  When Putin came to power, he insisted that the oligarchs stay

Typically the highest unemployment rates in these nations are in the most rural of areas, which are precisely the areas where tobacco tax-based dollars are most often investment. The reliance on taxes from tobacco across the 24 nations profiled in Figure 2 also lead many of the tobacco farmers not just in these nations, but globally, to have a higher level of income stability per acre, and also generate higher

Conflict & Negotiation The Bophuthatswana crisis of 1994 The Bophuthatswana crisis of 1994 entailed a devastating political crisis which started when the Bophuthatswana president, Lucas Mangope, made an attempt at crushing the widespread demonstrations and labor unrest from the people of South Africa as they demanded incorporation of the Bophuthatswana territory into the South African region pending the first multiracial election in 1994 (Holomisa, 2011; Lawrence & Manson1, 1994). Lucas Mangope was

The Situation in UkraineThe situation in Ukraine has been a complicated one for the US national government ever since Boris Berezovsky, Dave Bush, and other Western figures helped to foment a revolution that led to the overturning of the pro-Russian president-elect in 2004 (History and Economics, 2012). That revolution led to great tension in Ukraine between two factions�on the one hand, a Russian faction in the east; and on the

conflicts that we are always hearing about in the media and reading about in the newspapers is the Chechen Conflict. At times bloody war, now insidious terrorist actions on behalf of Chechen nationalist, the conflict has never been as recent as we may thing. For centuries the relation between Chechnya and its larger neighbor Russia have been full of turmoil. If we have a look at the history of the

Ukraine�s Invasion Ukraine�s InvasionSome believe that Putin�s decision to invade Ukraine is a tremendous diplomatic strategy and will likely increase his global influence. Others are skeptical, as it appears that he has no good way out of this situation, and as a result, this situation scares them.Research Background.Public Opinion and JournalismThe media has been buzzing with the love that Putin�s actions are garnering from the Russian people. They see it;