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The August 9, 2020 Belarusian presidential elections were perhaps the most hotly contested elections in the country's modern history with much at stake both in its domestic political dimension and in the country's foreign policy orientation. From the very outset the election campaign was marred by irregularities and the heavy reliance by the incumbent Alexander Lukashenko on the use of administrative resources to curtail or otherwise derail inconvenient candidacies. However, Mr. Lukashenko's fiercest challenge appeared from a most unexpected place. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the diminutive English language teacher and human rights activist, was an unlikely candidate to take up the mantle of the Belarusian opposition to Lukashenko's rule. Relatively unknown before the elections, with a husband arrested for human rights activism, she quickly gained following and popularity among some of the most active opposition groups in the country.
Although Tsikhanouskaya and her followers came close to achieving their wish, (she would subsequently claim a win by a popular vote), Lukashenko's repressive tactics made sure their wish would remain just that. Even before the official results were announced the opposition staged massive protests in Minsk and throughout Belarus in anticipation of electoral foul play. The ensuing months-long political crisis would see the self-exile of Tsikhanouskaya to Lithuania from where she continues to oppose Lukashenko's rule.
The present collection is comprised of hundreds of pages of official documents and a variety of ephemera and photographs produced by the Belarusian opposition as it strove to challenge Lukashenko's decades-long rule.
Includes documents from East View’s Global Election Archive related to the Belarus Presidential Election of 2020. Resources include ballot regulations, candidate finances, photographs, flyers, posters, election programs, and more.

The Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera is a steadily growing repository containing a previously unavailable subset of Princeton University’s Latin American Ephemera Collection as well as newly acquired materials being digitized and added on an ongoing basis.

The ECLAC Digital Repository provides access to over 42,000 digital objects; from the first publications made in 1948 to the most recent ones - inclusive of a growing audiovisual collection. All documents are available in full text and are free to download.

This valuable directory lists thousands of woodworking plants such as: kitchen cabinets, furniture, flooring, millwork, secondary mfrs., distribution/concentration yards buying 100,000 bd. ft. annually of Hardwood lumber and other Hardwood forest products. It gives complete, documented facts on species, grades, thicknesses and quantities purchased by each plant annually in the U.S. and Canada. Complete mailing addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, websites, e-mail addresses and individual purchasing agents’ names are listed. Access to the softwood directory is not included.
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The Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection is a collaboration between Brill and Harvard University Asia Center. This collection includes 523 titles published by Harvard University Asia Center. Nearly all titles belong to one of three monograph series: Harvard East Asian Monographs (419 titles), Harvard-Yenching Institute Monographs (about 90 titles), and the Harvard Contemporary China Series (about a dozen titles). By country, approximately 50% of the books in this collection are on China, 40% Japan, 10% Korea, and 1% other (Vietnam, India, Mongolia and other Asian regions). By field, approximately 50% of the books in this collection are on history, 20% literature, 5% business & economics, 5% religion, 5% politics & policy, 5% anthropology, sociology & regional studies, 3% art history, 3% popular culture & cinema, and 1% law, with a few miscellaneous topics.
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Juridoc.gouv.nc includes the official version of the Journal officiel de la Nouvelle Calédonie, as well as all the country's laws, legal codes and collections, legislative and regulatory texts, and constitutional, administrative, and judicial case laws.

Lexpol includes the official version of the Journal officiel de la Polynésie française as well as all the codes of French Polynesia (and a selection of national codes). Users are able to consult the country's laws classified by subject: Regulated activities and professions; Financial aid; Administration; Municipalities; Economy; Environment; Jurisprudence. Also available are the decisions of the Administrative Court of Papeete, the organic laws and the commented statutes in force as well as the previous statutes, and texts relating to the services and administrative departments of the country.

The primary source documents on this page highlight pivotal moments in the course of American history or government. They are some of the most-viewed and sought-out documents in the holdings of the National Archives. The Milestone Documents website organizes the documents by historical era, and features an interactive timeline to explore documents chronologically. Each document has historical context and a transcript, as well as links to images in the National Archives’ catalog and teaching resources.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia (ORE) project is one of the most ambitious reference projects that Oxford University Press has embarked upon. OREs are highly discoverable, peer-reviewed, online encyclopedias with essays planned, written, and reviewed by the world’s leading scholars and scientists, providing hundreds of in-depth articles on core topics in all of the major disciplines. Every month, new topics are added and current essays are updated, ensuring that users have the most up-to-date content at their fingertips. The ORE project combines the ease of access and speed of digital publishing with the standards of academic publishing. OREs:Synthesize primary research in high-level interpretive overview articles;

Provide anchoring information to be used at the start of a research project;

Are developed collaboratively with the global community of experts in a discipline;

Are written and vetted by scholars for scholars and students;

Direct users to other relevant, trusted content.

Working with international communities of scholars across all fields of study, Oxford has developed new comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics. While most content is restricted to subscribers, full-text articles of pre-subscription and preview OREs are freely available, as are the summaries in restricted subscriber content.

Quartz helps readers discover new industries, new markets, and new ways of doing business that are more sustainable, innovative, and inclusive.

The Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION) is a well-known center for research in social studies and humanities in Russia. The research center was created in 1969 as a successor to the Russian Academy's Fundamental Library of Social Sciences. This database presents all periodical publications of this Institute, as well as reference indexes, bibliographies and analytical reports.