Armies of War Without Uniforms: Mercenaries and Private Military Companies in Russia’s Interventions in Syria and Ukraine by Çağla Mavruk, Ali Gök

“…In the struggle for influence and power between states, states tend to use mercenaries and PMCs due to reasons such as the economic cost of the regular army, the negative reactions to be received from many actors in an official intervention in the target state, the sanctions of international law and the indignation caused by a possible loss of official soldiers, especially in the society. …”
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La fase final de unas migraciones de larga duración: gallegos hacia Buenos Aires (1946-1960) by Nadia Andrea De Cristóforis

“…We will also try to identify the migratory mechanisms favoring researched migratory processes, both spontaneous and official. Finally, we will postulate that the migrations of Galicians to Buenos Aires, after the Second World War, developed with a high degree of autonomy, with respect to the prevailing normative, institutional and political frameworks on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.For this study we have used the following sources: migration statistics of the Ministerio de Trabajo (Spain) and the Dirección Nacional de Migraciones (Argentina); libros de desembarco, actas de inspección marítima and official documents on migratory policies of peronism (Archivo General de la Nación, Buenos Aires); records of the Comisión Católica Española de Migración de La Coruña (Arquivo da Emigración Galega, Santiago de Compostela); documents of the Archivo General de la Administración (Alcalá de Henares) and the Archivo del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (Madrid); newspapers of the time (Faro de Vigo or Nuevo Correo, among others) and writings of officials and politicians from the mid-20th century (Martí Bufill or Vicente Borregón Ribes).…”
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Gümrük Birliği “Anlaşması”nın 1/95 Sayılı Ortaklık Konseyi Kararı’nın Hukuksal Niteliği by Kemal Başlar

“…Corollary, it was notpublished in the Official Gazette. This article argues that the 1/95 Customs UnionDecision should have been put into force by way of the procedure laid down in Article90 of the Turkish Constitution. …”
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Digital Diplomacy in the Discourse of Global Policy by I. V. Surma

“…The article presents a comparative analysis of the official presence on the Internet, including social networking sites, of the state diplomatic agencies of France, Italy, Russia, and others. …”
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A patrimonialização da memória social: uma forma de domesticação política das memórias dissidentes ou indígenas? by Alejandra Aguilar Pinto

“…This paper questions to what extent the official mechanisms or devices of memory and forgetting were successful in silencing, change or represent truly the "non-hegemonic voices". …”
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British Jewry and the Attempted Boycott of Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 by Zbyněk Vydra

“…It became clear that the success of the boycott movement strongly depended on the official support; however, the mainstream political opinion preferred negotiations and agreement with Germany. …”
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Kościół na drodze ku „Nostra Aetate”.Zarys relacji chrześcijańsko-żydowskich w XX w. przed II wojną światową by Andrzej Tulej

“… A review of the chosen teachings of the Church concerning Jews and Judaism – both official and unofficial – showed that in the twentieth century, before the Second World War, the Church spoke especially in response to the errors of racism, statolatry and various forms of Antisemitism. …”
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Coverage and Values of Legal Deposit in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945–1995) by Lejla Hajdarpašić

“…Approach/methodology/design: By researching the previous literature and reviewing official publications, that is examining the titles and full texts of published regulations in the printed editions of official publications, the relevant regulations related to the legal deposit in Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, federal and republican decrees, decisions, orders, laws for legal deposit were mapped. …”
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Educational Migration of Applicants Among Regions of the Russian Federation as a Data Source for Planning the Higher Education System Development by A. V. Dozhdikov, E. V. Kornilova

“…Federal universities data is described as the object of present study. Sources: official state statistics data of 2017-2021, “big data” is the results of passing the Unified State Examinations (USE) and the choice of university and direction of study by students for 2020. …”
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Teacher work in times of pandemic: Worsening inequalities and work intensification in the province of Buenos Aires by Nora Beatriz Gluz, Luisa Vecino, Valeria Martínez-del-Sel

“…We studied the regulations of the period, official statistics, and surveys and open interviews with secondary school teachers in four municipalities, which reflect the heterogeneity of this Argentine province. …”
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Effectiveness of the Palestinian Civil Police’s Accountability and Complaint System by Mustafa Abdelbaqi

“…Methods: The study uses the descriptive analytical approach, as well as the empirical method to obtain statistics and data provided by official and non-official human rights institutions. …”
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The Rise and Fall of the Iraqi Sunni Awakening Movement by Ramiz Sevdimaliyev

“…The growth of the movement's activity led to a weakening of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and a significant decrease in the intensity of interfaith conflict in the country. After the official transfer of control of the Awakening to the Iraqi government, the relationship of the Sunni tribes with official Baghdad deteriorated, as Prime Minister Al-Maliki pursued a systematic policy of marginalizing and eliminating the Awakening. …”
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Development of a Geodemographic System for Attica, Greece by Thomas Hatzichristos, Athanasia Darra, Anastasia Kostellou

“…The proposed methodology is applied to the Attica region in Greece. It uses the official socioeconomic data of the Hellenic Statistical Authority. …”
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RUSSIAN RESEARCH AND HIGHER EDUCATION SYLLABI ON POST-SOVIET SPACE: PRIORITIES IN TERMINOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF COURSES by Y. A. Nikitina

“…The article is devoted to the analysis of the key concepts used in the undergraduate and graduate courses on the post-Soviet region, of the link between these concepts and the official rhetoric based on the foreign policy documents. …”
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Two Approaches to Constructing Certified Dominating Sets in Social Networks by Joanna Raczek, Mateusz Miotk

“…In this context, certified dominating sets help to find in networks a group of people, referring as officials, such that 1) for each civilian, there is an official that can serve the civilian, and 2) no official is adjacent to exactly one civilian, to prevent potential abuses. …”
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Towards understanding the character of quality sampling in deep learning face recognition by Iurii Medvedev, João Tremoço, Beatriz Mano, Luís Espírito Santo, Nuno Gonçalves

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Quantitative analysis of innovative startups in Russia by B. E. Tokarev

“…In the proposed material an estimate of the number of startup launches on basis of official registration statistics for newly opened enterprises has been obtained. …”
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«Kept to distribute 44 copies of proclamations...»: about the biography of Omsk revolutionary Nadezhda Terekhova (Belonogova) by M. M. Stelmak

“…In the official press about it, they wrote quite rarely. …”
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“Young Brown Men Being Brutish”: How Police Ten 7 Portrays Māori and Pacifica People as Violent and Criminal in Aotearoa New Zealand. by Antje Deckert, Wairua Taru Grant Pukeiti, Juan Tauri

“…., “brown”) people fairly in light of official police statistics; and, particularly, if any distorted representation suggests that Māori and Pasifika people are more violent. …”
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Participation in Florida Growth Management Decisions by Roy Carriker

“… FE644, a 2-page fact sheet by Roy Carriker, introduces members of the public to the subject of public participation in official growth management decision processes. Published by the UF Department of Food and Resource Economics, August 2006. …”
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