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This databasel contains 13 million articles and advertisements published by the Asahi newspaper since its first issue in 1879. The database also includes regional versions of the Asahi newspaper, two weekly magazines (AERA and Weekly Asahi), a pictorial magazine (Asahi Graph), and a contemporary Japanese dictionary (知恵蔵 - Chiezo) which has been published annually. Also includes a Japanese version of Who's Who and an historical photo archive. More than 1,000 articles are added to the database on a daily basis. In May 2020, Hokkaido branch headquarters edition (1991-1999) has been added to Asahi Shimbun Reduced-size Facsimile Edition, and Chiezo Keyword DatabaseChiezo has been updated to the 2020 edition. User Guide: http://database.asahi.com/library2e/main/help/help.html Coverage:
1879 to present
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Kamat's Potpourri has partnered with leading scholars and publishers to create a reference and full text database specifically focusing on the art, history and culture of India. The producers have scavenged through rare manuscripts, conference proceedings, and commemorative volumes (India does not have a vibrant journals industry, and the researchers have relied on so called felicitation and commemorative volumes for their works to be published) to compile a priceless collection of digital content that is fully indexed and cross-referenced. Kamat Research Database, also known as India Index and India Backfile, consists of historical photographs and pictures, professional photographs (stock), candid photographs, stamps, famous art works, timelines, citations/abstracts, illustrations and line drawings, book reviews, biographies, e-books, and scholarly articles focusing their research on India. Navigation by subject, media, geography, and time-period is available. Summary of contents (as of 1 January 2015):
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KARAGODIN.ORG is a Russian independent research project by Denis Karagodin, who has spent almost a decade compiling a meticulous record of evidence about the murder of his great-grandfather by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's secret police, by running a website that lists, by name, every individual he deems complicit. The collection is an active murder investigation of a peasant named Stepan Karagodin, who was shot by the NKVD of the USSR on January 21, 1938 in the Siberian city of Tomsk. The resource is dedicated to collecting information from official Russian documents of the Ministry of Defense, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the General Military and Regional Prosecutor's Offices, multiple political outlets and online resources, and municipal and private archival collections. There is a heightened public interest in the investigation, as many such executions occurred during the Stalinist Purges. To date, Denis has received an apology from a granddaughter of one of the executioners. Coverage:
1900-present
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The newspaper Kavkaz (Caucasus) was published during 1846-1918. It was the first Russian-language newspaper in the Caucasus, published in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia. The idea to publish this newspaper came from Prince Mikhail Vorontsov who was the imperial Governor-General of the province at that time. The main purpose of the newspaper was, on the one hand, to promote the Russian culture and Russian influence in the Caucasus, and on the other hand “to acquaint the Russian public with the life, habits and traditions of the tribes populating the province of the Caucasus.” In 1846 Kavkaz began as a weekly newspaper, from 1850 it started to come out twice a week, in 1868 its periodicity changed to 3 times per week and from 1877 it became a daily publication until its closure in 1918. This Russian-language newspaper published official documents of the Russian Empire, as well as many historical, cultural and archeological writings by the prominent public and cultural figures of the local intelligentsia. During the brief period of 1846-1847 this newspaper had an Armenian-language counterpart. Coverage:
1846-1918
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KCI-Korean Journal Database consists of indexing, and in some cases full text, of research literature from South Korea. Subject coverage includes Arts & Humanities, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Technology. Searchable in both English and Korean. Articles are in a variety of original languages. Abstracts for all articles are available in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. Coverage:
1980-present
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The Keepers Registry, a Jisc service at EDINA, provides freely available means to discover which e-journals are being archived by participating organisations, and helping to highlight those e-journals for which no arrangement is on record. The Registry was developed by EDINA, the national data service centre at the University of Edinburgh, and the ISSN International Centre in Paris. The Keepers are the participating archiving agencies acting as stewards of digital content. There are currently ten participating agencies. Each agency runs an initiative for the archiving of e-journals and is making metadata on the journals in their initiative available to the Keepers Registry. The ISSN Register, which contains bibliographic metadata for all journals which have been assigned an ISSN, is at the heart of The Keepers Registry. The ISSN Register is used both as an authority source for ISSNs and to enrich the supplied records.
Acting as a global monitor on the archiving arrangements for electronic journals, the Registry has three main purposes:
To enable librarians and policy makers to find out who is looking after which e-journal, how and with what terms of access;
To highlight the e-journals which are still "at risk of loss";
To showcase the organisations (the keepers) which act as digital shelves for access over the long term.
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Created by experts, Khan Academy’s library of trusted, standards-aligned practice and lessons covers K-12 through early college, offering practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Courses are totally free and include math, science, art history, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, computing, finance, history, and more, as well as K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. Content and resources are free for learners, teachers, and parents. Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning. The focus is on skill mastery to help learners establish strong foundations, so there's no limit to what they can learn next. Khan Academy's resources are being translated into more than 36 languages in addition to the Spanish, French, and Brazilian Portuguese versions of their site. Accounts can be created to track learning progress or coach others. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The École Français D'Extrême-Orient Khmer Manuscript collection is a database containing over 1,000 searchable digitized manuscripts from Cambodia. These manuscripts have been collected from over 1,000 monasteries across Cambodia. The languages include Khmer and Pali. The manuscripts are categorized into 25 different categories including law, astronomy, histories, novels, magic, philosophy, proverbs and many Buddhist subjects. Coverage:
17th to 20th century
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The legendary Russian cinema and photographic art journal, the core of Gan-Rodchenko-Stepanova collaboration, published in 1922-1923. Issues illustrated throughout with typographic designs and photos of the abstract compositions by Rodchenko; articles by Kuleshov, Dziga Vertov and N. Bernstein, numerous letterpress designs. All advertisements are also designed in dynamic black and red Constructivist style. Photography and cinema were both still very new and exciting for a new emerging audience. Photomontage pictures, avant-garde layouts, unusual types and all other elements put the Kino-fot journal on the very edge of design and influenced the creative flow of 1920s. Coverage:
1922-1923
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Kino-zhurnal A.R.K. [i.e. The Magazine of the Association of Revolutionary Cinematography] is an extremely rare Soviet film magazine, published in Moscow by the Association of Revolutionary Cinematography in mid-1920s. Only twelve issues of this monthly magazine were published under this title (#1-12 for 1925 and #1-3, 1926). It provided a theoretical base for the changes in Soviet cinema in 1920s with articles on the film montage and other new methods of movie editing and directing. The magazine ceased publishing in 1926. Coverage:
1925-1926
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Knizhnaia letopis’ (The Book Index) is the most definitive reference guide available for published books in Russia. For decades, libraries and researchers have turned to this weekly publication to follow book publishing trends in the USSR and Russia. As the main Soviet/Russian bibliographic publication for books, Knizhnaia letopis’ represents the most comprehensive bibliographic resource available on printed books in Russia. Covering nearly 80 years, the Knizhnaia letopis’ Digital Archive provides easy access to this critical resource and features original graphics and searchable text.
The Knizhnaia letopis’ Digital Archive also includes a number of important supplements, such as Knizhnaia Letopis’. Dopolnitelnyi vypusk (Supplement, includes dissertation abstracts), Knizhnaia Letopis’. Vspomogatelnye ukazateli (Name, Subject and Geographic Indexes), Dopolnitelnyi vypusk. Vspomogatelnye ukazateli (Name and Geographic Indexes), and Ukazatel seriinykh izdanii (annual Index to Book Series).
The Knizhnaia letopis’ Digital Archive is an ideal complement to the Russian National Bibliography (UDB-BIB) database, which includes the archive of Knizhnaia letopis’ from 1980-2014 and 2015-current (note: its title changed to Knigi Rossii [Books of Russia] in 2015). The Knizhnaia letopis’ Digital Archive is not cross-searchable with UDB-BIB, which is on a different platform, but is cross-searchable with numerous other East View digital resources. Coverage:
1980-1997
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Contains the full text of over 700 leading science and engineering reference handbooks, technical data and reports, textbooks, and conference proceedings. Some of the contributing publishers are CRC Press, McGraw-Hill, Institute of Physics, Butterworth-Heinemann, Kluwer, and Reed Elsevier. Popular titles include: Chemical Properties Handbook (McGraw-Hill); CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics; Lange's Handbook of Chemistry; Machinery's Handbook; Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers; and Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook. Users can browse works page-by-page or search across titles and manipulate interactive tables, graphs, equations, spreadsheets, and other structured information. The chemical structure-searching feature allows users to draw the chemical compound before searching. Coverage:
Various Dates
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The Korean American Digital Archive brings more than 13,000 pages of documents, over 1,900 photographs, and about 180 sound files together in one searchable collection that documents the Korean American community during the period of resistance to Japanese rule in Korea and reveal the organizational and private experience of Koreans in America between 1903 and 1965. The components of the Korean American Digital Archive include: Korean American Archive Photograph set; Korean American Museum Oral History series; Korean Heritage Library Subject Files; Korean American Private Records; the Reverend Soon Hyun Collection works. Coverage:
1903-1965
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This bibliography includes approximately 4,800 records of books about Korea in English up to 1995 held by the Library of Congress. The topical term index was created based on contents of the book to provide an easy-to-use database of English-language works to a wide range of audience within the Library and the world wide community of scholars. Searchable by keyword, author, title, subject, and browsable by topical term index. Coverage:
-1995
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This collection contains materials from Americans who spent important parts of their lives in Korea as missionaries. Coverage:
Various dates
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Korean National Bibliography is a bibliography created to cover all publications published in the Republic of Korea. The site provides access to Data Collection, Korean Library MapDigital Collection, Cataloging in Publication (CIP), and Korean Library Information System Network (KOLIS-NET). As an integrated database, KOLIS-NET is searchable by subject, title, author, and keyword search. [search in Korean] Coverage:
Various dates
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Provides information on research results in the humanities and social sciences through an integrated search portal. Search for the following: reports, thesis, dissertations, books, world humanities forum, Korea forum, online humanities course, full-text DB, integrated DB on comparative study of Korea, various dictionary DBs, including Buddhist Encyclopedia, Korean culture terms translated into other languages, etc. It is accessible by mobile. [Interface: Korean and English] Coverage:
Various dates
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KOSIS is the national statistical database, operated by Statistics Korea. As a gateway for Korea’s official statistics, KOSIS offers a convenient one-stop service to full range of major domestic, international and North Korean statistics. Official statistics produced by over 120 statistical agencies covering more than 500 subject matters as well as the latest data on international finance and economy from international organizations (i.e. IMF, World Bank, OECD) are available on KOSIS. In English interface, official statistics on 226 subject matters are provided. [Interface: Korean and English] Coverage:
Various dates
KISS is a searchable database of full-text articles in about 6,000 journals published by 1,200 Korean academic societies and research centers / institutions, covering all subject areas. Includes KSI e-book, a full-text database of almost 9,000 e-books on philosophy, religion, social science, natural science, engineering, arts, linguistics, literature, and history. [search in Korean and Japanese]
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The Koseisha Database provides indexing to journal/periodical articles published in Japanese from the early Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present, including academic journals and popular (general interest) magazines. The database merges data from CiNii (Citation Information by the National Institute of Informatics), a database of journal articles and research bulletins by academic institutions and societies. It also covers Zasshi Kiji Sakuin-Japanese Periodicals Index by the National Diet Library, Japan. Coverage:
1868 to current
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A collaboration of leading Israeli publishers, Kotar is a large collection of reference materials, scholarly books, biographies, and other materials related to Israeli and Jewish topics. Kotar aims to provide students, teachers, and scholars with the best sources of information published over the last 50 years in Hebrew, along with an online work environment. Kotar resources span Israel studies; Israeli culture, literature, history, education, and sociology; and other selected topics in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage:
Various Dates
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A compendium of early works of an astounding variety of disciplines from important Arab writers, spanning fields from feminism and social theory, to classics of literature, history, and the sciences. Includes works by the Four Imams of the Sunni Sect, the Al Azhar Modern Sheikhs, various authors of the Modern Arab Enlightenment, and rare works by the former Egyptian royal family. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Kotobarabia E-Library covers over 1,400 established authors, NGOs, publishing houses and magazines. By establishing and maintaining business development channels with Arab publishing institutions, Kotobarabia regularly continues to add more contemporary content. Over 4,500 titles – and growing – of all types of publications: banned literature, fiction, non-fiction, scholarly and popular, written by Arab authors; Leading authors from Egypt, increasing content from other countries; Over 80% of the titles are unavailable or very hard to acquire even in print form. Content is mostly in Arabic, with metadata in both Arabic and English and bilingual English/Arabic search interface, including a virtual Arabic keyboard for easy text input. Coverage:
1960s to current
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The Modern Arab Renaissance Collection is made up of an exclusive electronic archive of books published from 1820-1914 from across the Islamic world, with special focus on Egypt and Syria. With over 2,500 titles, this collection covers humanistic, intellectual and scientific fields. Subject categories include philosophy and theology, literature, arts, history and politics, including writings from Mahmoud Abdo, Gamal El Din El Afgahany and Rashid Reda. Content is mostly in Arabic, with metadata in both Arabic and English and a bilingual English/Arabic search interface, including a virtual Arabic keyboard for easy text input. Coverage:
1820-1914
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Full text of journals and newspapers published North Korea, including the English edition of the Pyongyang Times. Searchable by keywords, and browsable by subject areas or journal/newspaper titles. Coverage:
Various Dates
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Krasnyi Arkhiv was published in Moscow from 1922 till June 1941 first by the Central Archives of the USSR and later by the Central Archival Administration. The proclaimed goal of this journal was to reveal the secrets of diplomatic documents hidden in the archives of Tsarist Russia and to regularly publish important archival papers “for the education of the proletariat”. These included official documents of the political police department, diaries and personal correspondence of the highest political figures (members of the royal family, top officials of the Tsarist Russia, etc.)
The complete set of Krasnyi Arkhiv contains more than 900 unique archival documents on the history of Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries, development of the Bolshevik movement and the Russian communist party, Russian civil war, Russia’s foreign policy, the history of Russian endeavors in Siberia, Central Asia and Kazakhstan. The journal also includes literary-historical materials, such as 16 publications on Alexander Pushkin, 12 publications on Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 14 publications on Leo Tolstoy and numerous other materials on the famous Russian classical writers and literary critics. The present database, Krasnyi Arkhiv. Digital Archive (DA-KRA) comprises the entire collection of the 106 published volumes, completely digitized for the first time (1,010 articles, more than 23,000 pages) with full-image browsing and full-text article-level search/browse functions. Coverage:
1923-1941
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Krokodil was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. Founded in 1922, it was first published as a supplement for Rabochaia gazeta. In 2001-2004 the title Krokodil was changed to Novyi Krokodil, but in 2005 the old title was back.
Published continuously until 2008, Krokodil was at one time the most popular newspaper for humorous stories and satire, with a circulation reaching 6.5 million copies. Krokodil lampooned religion, alcoholism, foreign political figures and events. It ridiculed bureaucracy and excessive centralized control. The caricatures found in Krokodil can be studied as a gauge of the 'correct party line' of the time. During the height of the Cold War, cartoons criticizing Uncle Sam, Pentagon, Western colonialism and German militarism were common in the pages of Krokodil.
East View has carefully added full-text searchable tags to identify individuals and organizations within the artwork, where full-text search would not normally find results. Thanks to this added value, users are able to search for people and organizations and find them not only within the articles, but also wherever they are represented in caricatures and drawings. Tools found in the interface may be used to magnify the images or text, or download pages for future reference. Coverage:
1922 - 2008
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KRpia: a Database which provides over 300 archive of knowledge contents covering from Koreanology and Korean studies. Its powerful searches integrate search capability enabling one time retrieval for multiple DBs. It covers the supplementary resources such as terminology dictionaries, historical records and professional research articles. It also provides linkage to related annotations, footnotes, and glossaries to keyword in the full text. It supports input of expanded Chinese characters and Old Hangul letters. Coverage:
Various Dates
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A full-text database of almost 9,000 e-books on philosophy, religion, social science, natural science, engineering, arts, linguistics, literature, and history. [search in Korean and Japanese] Coverage:
Various Dates
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An integrated catalog database jointly built by 1,600 public/professional libraries nationwide, including the National Central Library, and the government department's library. Since 2001, the National Library of Korea has operated a comprehensive list of national data based on a network of mutual cooperation with domestic libraries. Provides the comprehensive list of national data which can be easily and quickly searched and used by all researchers. [Search in Korean, Japanese, English, and more] Coverage:
Various Dates
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An integrated catalog database that is jointly built by the National Library of Korea, over 1,800 public and specialized libraries across the country, and data centers of government ministries. Coverage:
Various dates
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The National Electronic Library connects major domestic libraries to provide integrated search services centered on digital texts online to researchers. Linked libraries include National Library of Korea, National Defense University Electronic Library, National Assembly Library of Korea, Rural Development Administration Agricultural Science Library, Supreme Court Library, National Center for Medical Science Knowledge of Korea, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology Library, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, and Korea Education & Research Information Service. [Search in Korean, Japanese, English, and more] Coverage:
Various Dates
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It covers all periods of Korean history, from ancient history to modern history. It provides various types of materials, including maps, photos, and text-based data of books and documents. Provided are the primary data of Korea's ancient history research (Samguk sagi, Samguk yusa, etc.), Sŭngjŏngwŏn ilgi (Diary of the Royal Secretariat) during the Chosŏn dynasty, documents related to the Independence Movement, and newspapers and magazines that are the basis of Korean modern history research. [Search in Korean, Chinese, Japanese] Coverage:
Various Dates
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The National Library, founded in 1945, is a comprehensive and treasured repository of intellectual and informational resources of the Republic of Korea. Since its establishment, the Library has built its extensive collection of national publications and digital materials, which are also preserved thoroughly and organized systematically. In addition, the National Library selects valuable knowledge and cultural resources from the collections, and provides them as online content. Information provided includes Korean newspaper archives, official gazettes, records related to overseas Korea, online digital data, audiobooks, and online exhibitions etc. [Interface: Korean and English] Coverage:
Various Dates
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Korean dictionary issued by the National Institute of the Korean Language in compliance with the language regulations such as standard Korean language regulations and Korean spelling. Coverage:
20th–21st centuries
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This archive contains the papers of Minoru Kusudu (1964-2003), secretary and advisor of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato (1902-1975), the longest-serving prime minister of postwar Japan (1964-1972), the longest of any Japanese PM since the end of World War II. The collection includes:
Part I includes primary documents from the highest level of government of the Sato Administration, including a number of documents classified as Top Secret or higher and documents pertaining to Japan-U.S. security relations, in particular the presence of U.S. military forces on the island of Okinawa.
Part II begins with the Kishi and Ikeda administrations, which preceded the appointment of Kusuda as chief secretary, and continues with various documents from the Sato administration as addenda to Part I. This collection fills in the gaps in the archives of Japanese politics from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
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The Parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan took place on The October 4, 2015 without major incidents. Up for grabs were 120 seats in the Jogorku Kengesh (Жогорку Кеңеш) through the proportional system of elections, with parties needing the required 7% threshold to make it into the parliament. According to a team of international observers dispatched from a variety of European countries under the aegis of the OSCE and ODIHR, the elections, despite being characterized as “lively," nevertheless contained one major shortcoming, a lack of “impartial information available to voters in the news.” Furthermore the report noted other shortcoming, this time having to do with the implementation of new voting technologies and monitoring, leaving many unaccounted votes and raising questions about the fairness of the elections, despite their otherwise smooth conduct. Despite these and other procedural shortcomings, the elections registered a marked improvement over similar elections in the past, which is not to say that they met the high democratic standards required for a fair political life. The present database is composed of rare campaign materials (up to 50 documents, more than 470 pages) collected by East View researchers in Kyrgyzstan and provides a glimpse of the election process in that country. It includes a wide variety of ephemera such as newspapers, flyers and brochures put in circulation by candidates and eligible parties. Coverage:
2015
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The Kyrgyz presidential elections took place on October 15, 2017 in a relatively calm political environment. There were 11 registered candidates vying for the presidency. Having served his single term limit the incumbent president Almazbek Atambayev was not a candidate, a fact that had an overall positive effect on the elections. With the incumbent being out of the picture the competitiveness of the elections became apparent in the run-up to the elections and during the elections themselves. Sooronbay Jeenbekov of the ruling Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan would clinch the presidency with more than 50% of the vote, which according to the electoral code of Kyrgyzstan guaranteed that there was no need for a run-off with the runner-up. The assessment of international observers was largely positive, although they pointed out multiple violations of the electoral rules and procedures. These violations however were not enough to alter the general trajectory of the elections. The present database contains ephemera collected by East View’s researchers during the period immediately preceding the elections and provide researchers valuable insight into the evolving political culture of Kyrgyzstan. Coverage:
2017