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| show | A policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion by a state aimed at a community of its nationals living in a neighboring state.
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| show | Permanently frozen water in the near-surface soil and bedrock of cold environments, producing the effect of completely frozen ground. Surface can thaw during brief warm season
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| show | organization that operates independently from any form of government and does not function as a for-profit business. Mostly seeks to improve social conditions
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| Federation | show 🗑
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| show | Demographic resettlement policies pursued by the central planners of the Soviet Empire (1922–1991), whereby ethnic Russians were encouraged to emigrate from the Russian Republic to the 14 non-Russian republics of the USSR
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| show | The tightly controlled economic system of the former Soviet Union, whereby central planners in Moscow assigned the production of particular goods to particular places, often guided more by socialist ideology than the principles of economic geography
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| show | The countries of eastern Europe under Soviet hegemony between 1945 and 1989. This tier of countries—the “satellites” captured in Moscow’s “orbit” following World War II—was bordered on the west by the Iron Curtain and on the east by the USSR
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| show | in 1950 at the height of the Cold War as a U.S.-led supranational defense pact to shield postwar Europe against the Soviet military threat. NATO is now in transition, expanding its membership while modifying its objectives in the post-Soviet era
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| show | The various degenerative effects of distance on human spatial structures and interactions
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| show | A nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state.
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| show | The strength of an urban center in its capacity to attract producers and consumers to its facilities; a city’s “reach” into the surrounding region
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| show | smaller of the two main Islamic sects, comprising about 10 percent of Muslims overall, but in the majority in both Iran and Iraq. The origin of Shi’ism dates back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad
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| show | The larger of Islam’s two main sects (encompassing) roughly 90 percent of all Muslims) who adhere to the conviction that any devout follower of the Prophet Muhammad is eligible to be his legitimate successor
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| show | A supranational organization created by Russia in 2010 to maintain economic ties with the friendliest countries in the Near Abroad. The three charter members (Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan) were joined in 2015 by the two smaller countries
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