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Law and State Practice in Armenia: Dealing with the Issues Concerning the Search, Exhumation and Identification of Missing Persons in Conflict Zones 亚美尼亚的法律和国家实践：处理冲突地区失踪人员的搜寻、发掘和身份确认问题

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-07-06 DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220011

J. Sarkin

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Introduction: Understanding How the Historical, Democratic and Human Rights Contexts of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia Affect the Search, Exhumation, and Identification of Conflict-Related Missing Persons in the South Caucasus 简介:了解亚美尼亚、阿塞拜疆和格鲁吉亚的历史、民主和人权背景如何影响南高加索地区与冲突有关的失踪人员的搜寻、挖掘和身份识别

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-07-06 DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220010

J. Sarkin

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Events of the Russian Civil War in Abkhazia 1918–1921 in the Manuscript Sources of the Estonians from Abkhazia 来自阿布哈兹的爱沙尼亚人的手稿资料中的1918-1921年阿布哈兹的俄国内战事件

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220002

A. Jürgenson

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Filling in the Urban Space: The “Port-Petrovsk” Fishery and Elemental Urbanization in Makhachkala 城市空间的填充:马哈奇卡拉“彼得罗夫斯克港”渔业与基本城市化

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220009

K. Wielecki

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Modernising Security: Vernacular (In)securities in the Public Space of Tbilisi after the Rose Revolution 现代化安全：玫瑰革命后第比利斯公共空间的乡土安全

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220005

Tinatin Khomeriki

引用次数: 2

On the Edge of Time and Space: The Udis of Oghuz 在时间和空间的边缘:奥古斯的乌迪斯

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-03-22 DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220004

Alexander Kavtaradze

引用次数: 1

Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe: Perspectives on the Construction of a Region, edited by Thomas Kruessmann and Andrey Makarychev 《高加索的欧洲》、《欧洲的高加索:一个地区建设的视角》，由托马斯·克鲁斯曼和安德烈·马卡里切夫主编

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-03-22 DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220007

Tamar Qeburia

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‘Nobody Will Marry You If You Don’t Have a Pension’. Female Bribing Practices in Dagestan, North Caucasus “如果你没有退休金，没有人会嫁给你”。北高加索达吉斯坦的女性贿赂行为

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-03-22 DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220003

Iwona Kaliszewska, Jagoda Schmidt

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Ungovernance and Spiritual Feudalism in Northeast Highland Georgia 乔治亚高原东北部的无政府状态与精神封建主义

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-03-22 DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220006

Florian Mühlfried

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Searching for Democracy, Finding Nationalism 寻找民主，寻找民族主义

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2022-03-22 DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220008

Naira Sahakyan

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