Rosyjskie. Europejskie. Oświecone. Rozumne. O obecności Rosji w Azji Środkowej (i nie tylko) by Andrzej Polak

“…The main characters in the works of Russian writers are invariably Russians, and their reference point is the Russian (Soviet) state.…”
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Analysis of the current state program INNOVATION SUBJECTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by M. Abramova, S. Manakhov

“…The paper shows and gives justification to the definition «program» which wasn't used earlier in case of state planned economy of the Soviet period, and legislatively snugged at the moment within an economical and managerial profile as a complex of the interconnected projects and actions united by a common goal and coordinated jointly for the purpose of increase in general effectiveness and controllability. …”
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Nenets Folklore in Russian: The Movement of Culture in Forms and Languages by Karina Lukin

“…The article deals mainly with the research history of Nenets folklore studies and examines critically two of its paradigms, namely the so-called Finno-Ugric paradigm and the Soviet studies. It is argued that in these paradigms there existed biases that prevented the students to study certain kind of folklore material. …”
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Revolução e religião: as relações entre a Igreja e o Estado na Cuba contemporânea by Marcos Antonio da Silva, Guillermo Alfredo Johnson

“…In this sense, it examines three key moments: the tension and distance in the context of the transition to socialism developed in the country; the reapproaching that culminated with the visit of Pope John Paul II in the 90s, still under the impact of the fall of the Soviet bloc and the international isolation faced by the country, and finally the more recent relationships, marked by the visit of the Pope, now emeritus, Benedict XVI and the affirmation of the Catholic Church as the main internal interlocutor with the Cuban government. …”
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Official Status As a Tool of Language Revival? A Study of the Language Laws in Russia’s Finno-Ugric Republics by Konstantin Zamyatin

“…This study explores the legal and institutional position of Finno-Ugric languages according to the language laws of the national republics in post-Soviet Russia. The aim is to understand whether the republican authorities intended to use the official designation of state language as a policy device with which to ensure the revival of titular languages. …”
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La morale des libres penseurs prolétariens : entre dénonciation de la pédophilie du clergé et promotion d’une approche alternative de la sexualité (France, années 1920-1930)... by Laura Pettinaroli

“…They also regularly emphasized sexual issues from different angles, ranging from vigorous denunciation of clerical pedophilia to defense of neo-Malthusianism, feminism, and the Soviet achievements on divorce and abortion legislation. …”
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Comparative characteristics of doctoral education at universities of Russia and Belarus by Elmira R. Kushaeva, Elena G. Kremneva

“…Doctoral education in Russia and post-Soviet countries aims at training researchers for different spheres of national economies, including science, education, and industry. …”
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Ethnocultural Factor of Inclusive Education Development (by the Examples of the Russian Federation and Kyrgyz Republic) by M. A. Suchkov

“…The author emphasizes the signs of our time – language assimilation in the countries of the former Soviet Union. It is shown that many parents in the north of Kyrgyzstan send their children, including children with disabilities, to study at Russian schools, and it causes additional barriers in learning, along with the barriers caused by physical and intellectual disabilities.…”
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Military Aspects of the Lithuanian-Polish Conflict of 1918-1920 by Vytautas Lesčius

“…In the middle of June 1920, while the martial activity between Soviet Russia and Poland was tending to the disadvantage of the latter, the hope of getting back their capital Vilnius was ignited for the Lithuanians. …”
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A Sketch on the Balkans as a “Centre of Peripheries” by Raymond Detrez

“…The most prominent among these include the ancient world, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine commonwealth, the Ottoman Empire, modern Europe, the Soviet bloc, and the European Union. Additionally, the region has experienced influences from less dominant spheres such as the Eurasian steppe, the Arab world, and the maritime empires of the Italian city-states and Dubrovnik. …”
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INTEGRATION OF SCIENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION: OLD PROBLEMS AND NEW APPROACHES by Anatoly M. Ablazhey

“…The article is an attempt to reconstruct the major milestones of the state policy for the integration of science and higher education in the Soviet and postBSoviet era. It is shownthat oneofthe effective waysbecame therealization in the USSR the project of Academic University (MIPT, NSU) as a domestic variant of “Humboldt University”. …”
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Women’s Biography in Modern Ukrainian Women’s War Fiction: the Case of the Novel Because It Hurts by Yevhenia Senik by Snizhana Zhygun

“…The idea of strengthening the national identity with the topics forbidden in Soviet times is presented in the introductory part. …”
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Internationalization of Education: La Peau de Сhagrin of the Russian Language by R. M. Petruneva, L. F. Belyakova, T. L. Sidorova

“…The authors address the issues relating to the status of the Russian language in countries of the Central Asia region – the former republics of the Soviet Union. The article provides an information on the expansion of Western and Eastern countries into the educational system of these countries. …”
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Main Development Directions of Agricultural Areas in the Eastern Zangezur Region by Mammadova Sheker, Abdurahmanov Faig, Humbatov Mahmud

“…Favorable climatic and relief conditions, along with fertile soils, play an invaluable role in the development of both crop production and livestock farming. Since Soviet times, the territory has been used for agricultural purposes, fully meeting the country's needs for milk, meat and grain products. …”
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Prediction of influenza peaks in Russian cities: Comparing the accuracy of two SEIR models by Vasiliy N. Leonenko, Sergey V. Ivanov

“…The second one is a discrete model formulated as a set of difference equations, which was used in the Baroyan-Rvachev modeling framework for the influenza outbreak prediction in the Soviet Union. The outbreak peak day and height predictions were performed by calibrating both models to varied-size samples of long-term data on ARI incidence in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Novosibirsk. …”
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TO SEE, WHILE UNABLE TO SEE: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES OF AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by C. Gouws

“…The author uses examples from the Second World War, the Soviet Union in the 1950s, the civil war in the Balkans in the 1980s, and 9/11. …”
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CONTRIBUTION OF UNN RADIOPHYSICISTS TO DEFENSE, SCIENCE, AND INNOVATION by Sergey N. Gurbatov, Valeriy V. Matrosov, Arkadiy V. Yakimov

“…Radiophysics Faculty was established in 1945 and it became the first faculty in the Soviet Union to prepare specialists in radiophysics for scientific research centres and laboratories of radiolocation and electrovacuum industry. …”
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Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Tektology: A Proletarian Science of Construction by Poustilnik Simona

“…Bogdanov’s conception of the universal phenomenon of ‘organization’ as an expedient combination of active elements and his attempt to construct a collective tektological ‘personality-organization’ possessed a conceptual creative power and influenced the work of the Soviet Constructivists. Conceptions of ‘assembling’ similar to those expressed in Tektology provided Constructivists with a scientific rationale, projects and terminology for their experiments in a new ‘production art’. …”
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Making Muslim Women Political : Imagining the Wartime Woman in the Russian Muslim Women’s Journal Suyumbika by Danielle Ross

“…In this way, the Great War served as a period of transition between women’s cultures of the imperial and Soviet periods. This article is based, among others, on primary sources published in Suymbika between 1914 and 1917 as well as Tatar-language books of the pre-1917 period.…”
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Language Schools of MGIMO-University by G. I. Gladkov

“…But the question was in providing for language support for the system of world diplomacy of the Soviet state. And pretty soon it became clear that proficiency in two foreign languages was the main advantage of MGIMO graduates over graduates of all other national universities. …”
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