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THE SARMATIAN REVIEW Vol. XXXIV, No. 3 __ _____________ __ September 2014 Symbolic Capital Monument to King Władysław Jagiełło in New York’s Central Park, by Stanisław Kazimierz Ostrowski. The inscription on the plinth reads: KING JAGIELLO, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, 1386–1434. Founder of a Free Union of the Peoples of East Central Europe, Victor over the Teutonic Aggressors at Grunwald, July 15, 1410. Wikimedia public domain. September 2014 THE SARMATIAN REVIEW Ewa Wampuszyc, Narrating Migration (review)1862 (ISSN 1059- The Sarmatian Review Bożena Karwowska, Reprezentacje Europy w 5872) is a triannual publication of the Polish Institute of prozie polskiej (review) . 1865 Houston. The journal deals with Polish, Central, and Eastern European affairs, and it explores their implications Maciej B. Stępień, The Lost German East for the United States. We specialize in the translation of (review) . 1866 documents. 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Ukrainian Maydan . 1855 Sally Boss, Germany’s Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space (review) . 1859 1852 THE SARMATIAN REVIEW September 2014 Sarmatian Review Data Russian opinions about Russian imperialism Percentage of Russians who approve of the March 2014 annexation of Crimea: 88 percent. Percentage of those who disapprove: 7 percent. Source: Iurii Levada-Centre poll, as reported by <wpolityce.pl>, 27 March 2014, accessed on the same day. Cost to Russia of the Russo-Ukrainian confrontation Capital flow from Russia in the first quarter of 2014: 51 billion dollars, the highest since the fourth quarter of 2008, with an estimated outflow of 160 billion dollars at the end of the year. Estimate of Russian foreign currency reserves in April 2014: over 400 billion dollars. Organizations and structures in which Russia’s status has changed as a result of aggression against Ukraine: ejected from the G-8 group; stripped of its voting rights by Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Source: Ilan Berman, “What Putin Is Costing Russia,” Wall Street Journal, 20 April 2014 <http://online.wsj.com/news/articles>, accessed 21 April 2014. Russian equities decline on a year-to-year basis, as reported by the Market Vectors Russia ETF, as of 15 April 2014: –22 percent. Source: Ingrid Pan, “Will the Russia-Ukraine tension affect world energy supplies?” Yahoo Finance, 21 April 2014 <http://marketrealist.com/2014/04/major-takeaways/>, accessed 21 April 2014. Ukrainian and Russian views on the unity of Ukraine after Crimea’s annexation by Russia Percent of Ukrainians who wish to maintain current borders: 77 percent. Among those, percentage of those who want to maintain current borders and are Russian speakers: 58 percent. Attitudes toward the EU: 45 percent think its influence is good, whereas 33 percent think it is bad. Attitudes toward Russia: 67 percent think its influence is bad, 22 percent assess it as good. Attitudes toward the United States: 38 percent think its influence is good, 38 percent assess it as bad. Size of poll: 1,659 randomly selected adults from across the country interviewed by Pew Research Center between 5–23 April 2014. Percentage of Russians in Russia who support the annexation of Crimea: 84 percent. Percentage of Russians who believe that there are parts of neighboring countries that belong to Russia: 61 percent. Percentage of Russians who consider the collapse of the Soviet Union a great tragedy: 55 percent. Size of poll: 1,000 randomly selected adults across Russia interviewed by Pew Research Center between 4–20 April 2014. Source: Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Project, 8 May 2014 <http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/05/08/despite-concerns-about-governance-ukrainians-want-to-remain-one- country/>, accessed on the same day. European and American exports to Russia before the Ukraine crisis Percentage of total exports of various countries that go to Russia: United States, less than 1 percent; Belarus, 32 percent; Ukraine, 27 percent; Moldova, 26 percent; Lithuania and Estonia, 14 percent each; Latvia, 9 percent; Germany and Italy, 3 percent each; France, 2 percent. Source: Rob Garver, “If Russia Goes Over the Economic Cliff, It Won’t Go Alone,” The Fiscal Times (via Yahoo), 2 May 2014 < http://news.yahoo.com/russia-goes-over-economic-cliff-100000334.html>, accessed 2 May 2014. Poland a third-world country concerning dental health Percentage of Polish children aged 6–12 that have cavities: 80 percent, with 3–4 teeth affected on average. Percentage of children aged 5–9 that have nver visited a dentist’s office: 33 percent. What led to this conclusion: 5805 children from five voivodships were tested from September to November 2013 . Source: Polish Red Cross site < http://www.pck.pl/pages,10_300.html>, accessed 11 March 2014. Poland a first-world country in education in 2014 international ranking, based on cognitive skills and educational attainment (the Pearson Index) World rank of Poland in overall index rank and score: #10 (it was #16 in 2012). 1853 September 2014 THE SARMATIAN REVIEW World