bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Affection and Reflective Expectations in the Geographical Indication
Authors: Bittencourt Machado Gustavo
Published: December 2024

This paper is based on the theoretical discussion of the following analyze categories: reflective expectations, affection, agrarian systems, and geographical indication. The reflective expectations category has its proposition based on the notion, the concepts of expectations and reflexivity, supporting etymologically. This concept is explicitly analyzed when the agrarian system formation is considered and recognizes the geographical indications of a product, culturally linked to a territory and region. It is not about a specific study of a product, a region, contemplated with a geographical indication, and Indication of Origin and Denomination of Origin or a specific agrarian system. The aim is to comprehend how the knowledge is disseminated, appears, and signifies itself in the agrarian systems formation and its products in its regions linked to a public policy of the geographical indication. The thesis is that social formation happens through two affection-cognitive processes: knowledge transmission by affection and reflective expectations.
Keywords: affection, reflective expectations, geographical indication
The Evolution of Digital Communication: Zelensky and the Use of Instagram in Wartime
Authors: Battista Daniele
Published: December 2024

Social media platforms have played a significant role in the widespread dissemination of propaganda images during recent conflicts. This phenomenon underscores the importance of these tools as vehicles for the spread of political narratives, ideologies, and propaganda messages. This study aims to investigate the role of visual propaganda in the current era of social media, with a focus on the use of spectacularization as part of the communication strategy employed by the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, within the context of the Instagram platform. The objective of this analysis is to explore how Zelensky uses Instagram as a tool to spectacularize his political persona and promote his agenda. We examine the nature and mechanisms of spectacularization, with a specific focus on how the Ukrainian President constructs a public image that combines elements of entertainment and politics. To examine the use of Zelensky's public image and personal style in the ongoing conflict, we employed a combination of social media analysis tools. These platforms allowed us to monitor and delve into the effectiveness of Zelensky's public appearances from February 24, 2022, to February 24, 2023, providing us with a comprehensive overview of the current state of affairs. The collected data were analyzed using a multidisciplinary approach that combines political communication theory and media analysis. The results indicate that the President's personal style, characterized by a predominantly informal and de-institutionalized appearance, significantly impacts the public perception of his political persona. Within the landscape of social media-based information warfare, various issues are addressed and explored. Overall, this context highlights the importance of understanding how visual imagery is used as a tool of manipulation and persuasion within the dynamics of social media.
Keywords: propaganda, spectacularization, communication strategies, Zelensky, Instagram
A comprehensive analysis of the value JUSTICE: a psycholinguistic aspect
Authors:   Moscow City University, Kazachenko Oksana V.
Published: January 2025

The article is devoted to the psycholinguistic analysis of the value JUSTICE. This
phenomenon is considered to be an element of the public consciousness of the Russian
The article is devoted to the psycholinguistic analysis of the value JUSTICE. This
phenomenon is considered to be an element of the public consciousness of the Russian language picture, as well as a part of the individual worldview in the form of its personal
meanings. Using component analysis, a fragment of the Russian language picture of the
world has been revealed. It was found out that the lexeme justice in Russian dictionaries
of different years of publishing has three semantic nodes, which in the form of integral
hypersemes and differential hyposemes are present in all dictionary definitions: the essence
of the phenomenon, orientation and object. Most definitions explain the desired lexeme as
an attitude, property, or action directed either at a person or society. The object is a person
or an attitude/action towards someone or something. Based on the analysis of associative
dictionaries and a free associative experiment held on a large sample of respondents of the
Russian Federation, the content of the value JUSTICE was revealed consisting of nuclear
and peripheral elements. The nuclear elements show generally accepted associations, the
peripheral ones show individual and personal reactions. The nuclear elements highlighted
in associative dictionaries did not fully manifest themselves and their sequence as different
compared to the free associative experiment, which indicates the dynamics of the respondents’
understanding of this value over time. The results of the free associative experiment of
the value JUSTICE were studied using a quantitative method of data mining in order to
determine the optimal number of concepts that define the structure of the desired value,
based on their frequency and place of reaction to the stimulus in the chain of associations
of respondents. The value JUSTICE is associated with many other values, such as honesty,
decency, equality and others, which are combined in the worldview into a system of complex
concepts that determine the emotions and behavior of a person, which ultimately contribute
to the formation of a certain state ideology.
Validation of adult age-of-acquisition ratings of Russian words by vocabulary testing: replication and elaboration
Authors:   Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sugonyaev Konstantin V. , Pashneva Svetlana A. ,   Kursk State University
Published: January 2025

Age of acquisition (AoA) is an important psycholinguistic variable that affects the speed
and accuracy of lexical processing tasks. In earlier [2023] study quite strong associations
between AoA ratings for Russian words provided by adults and vocabulary tasks performance
by school students were shown. In line with the trends in modern sociology of science the
research aimed at checking reproducibility of earlier obtained results was undertaken. 700
tasks for testing previously or results obtained earlier (with five response options each)
were allocated between eight subtests that were given to pupils of the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th
grades (two subtests each). In total, 546 test protocols were obtained, 482 from which were
included in the analysis (from 108 to 139 protocols for each grade) after excluding protocols
with signs of insufficient efforts. The results of replication study confirmed the sign and
level of relations between AoA word rating and the percentage of correct answers to the
corresponding test item in the vocabulary test. The following effect sizes averaged across
four grades were obtained: observed correlation in 2024 was equal to -.48 but it increased
to -.84 after artifact correction (measurement error for test scores and range restriction
for ratings of words used within the grade). The corresponding estimates calculated for
2023 data were -.43 and -.80. Differences between estimates of the first and second studies
appeared not significant. The results of current study confirms that subjective ratings are
valid indicators of Russian words acquisition in the age range studied and are suitable for
norming this characteristic.
Initiating Constitutional Morality: Political Intervention, Ethical Reinforcement, and Constitutional Court Decisions in Indonesia
Authors: Annisa Salsabila  , Tria Noviantika  , Ahmad Yani
Published: January 2025

Constitutional morality is essential for the branches of power (Parliament and Government) to ensure impartiality, political insularity, and institutional stability for the judicial power, especially the Constitutional Court and constitutional morality as a guide and benchmark for constitutional judges to form ethics and decisions that reflect the Constitution. This article seeks to answer crucial questions about how forms of intervention and ethical problems in the Constitutional Court do not reflect constitutional morality and how the idea of limiting intervention and strengthening the ethics and decisions of the Constitutional Court through constitutional morality. The author uses normative legal research methods with statutory, conceptual, comparative, and case approaches. The results of this study are in line with the hypothesis of the argumentation that the author builds, showing that the lack of application of constitutional morality by Parliament, Government, and Constitutional Court Judges has threatened the independence of the Constitutional Court, has damaged the judicial dignity of the Constitutional Court, and making the Constitutional Court a means of political insurance. Several cases have shown that parliamentary and government intervention in the Constitutional Court is inevitable. Likewise, ethical violations and decisions of the Constitutional Court that do not reflect the Constitution add to the complexity of the current problems of the Constitutional Court. For this reason, the author recommends that the elaboration of the concept of limiting intervention and strengthening the ethics and decisions of the Constitutional Court can be accomplished in several ways, including statutory provisions regarding the prohibition of conflicts of interest and the ethics of state administrators, the construction of ethical institutions/courts as external institutions in enforcing and supervising ethics, reconstructing the process of selecting and dismissing constitutional judges fairly and transparently by involving public oversight, and guaranteeing and legitimizing the Constitutional Court in exercising administrative and financial autonomy independently.
Nano-silica integration for superior properties in potassium feldspar-based phosphoric acid activated geopolymers: A sustainable approach
Authors: Nanthini M , Ganesan R , Jaganathan V
Published: January 2025

This study investigates the potential of Potassium Feldspar-phosphate-based geopolymer concrete as a sustainable alternative to conventional concrete, addressing the environmental concerns associated with CO2 emissions during cement production. While geopolymer concrete offers a promising path toward sustainability, its performance often falls short of Portland cement concrete. This study investigates utilizing nano-silica to enhance the performance of geopolymer concrete. Potassium feldspar powder, metakaolin, and rice husk ash were combined to create a ternary mixture that included different amounts of nano-silica. The resulting geopolymer composition's mechanical characteristics were assessed. The mechanical qualities were evaluated using split tensile and compressive strength tests. The findings revealed that a 4% nano-silica dosage (GC-N4) yielded the most significant improvement in strength and durability. The GC-N4 mix performed superior in all metrics, demonstrating the highest compressive (42.86 MPa) and split tensile (3.8 Mpa) strengths. Reduction in water absorption and durability aspects were also optimum in GC-N4. These results highlight the potential of incorporating nano-silica into a ternary mix of potassium feldspar powder, metakaolin, and rice husk ash to significantly enhance the overall performance of geopolymer concrete, promoting its wider adoption as a sustainable construction material.
Green Synthesis of ZSM-5-Like Material from Rice Husk: Structural and Morphological Characterization
Authors: Bharathinathan Aasthiya , Duraisamy Karthikeyan , Narayanan Sethuraman
Published: January 2025

This study proposes the derivation of SiO2 from rice husk ash and reports the properties of in-house made zeolite ZSM-5, correlated with the commercial one. The rice husk ash is treated with an alkaline solution followed by hydrothermal treatment (850oC). The synthesized samples were characterized by XRF, XRD, FESEM and FTIR. The XRF analysis on the synthesized rice husk ash confirms the presence of 92% silica, while the XRD analysis shows the formation of amorphous structure and crystalline form it was observed the presence of crystalline silica in the form of cristobalite. in addition, the field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), shows the presence of micro scale shapeless morphology and varying SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratios from 20 to 40, the cubic crystals appears zeolite-like material. Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) appears to be a technique of the outcome of double-ring tetrahedral vibration and in-house zeolite prepared from the rice husk ash possesses the asymmetric stretching of the Si tetrahedral within the zeolite framework. It is inferred that the extraction of silica from raw rice husk is an economical and environmentally beneficial substitute. In addition, this novel approach proposes the development of green chemical techniques for ZSM-5 production from agricultural byproducts
HYDROLYZING ACTIVITY OF CGTASES FROM PAENIBACILLUS IN RELATION TO α AND β GLICANS
Authors:   Ufa Institute of Biology of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia, Milman P.Yu. , Gilvanova E.A. ,   Ufa Institute of Biology of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia, Ryabova A.S. ,   Ufa Institute of Biology of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
Published: December 2024

The cell wall of micromycetes is crucial for the shape and function of cells, as well as for their protection from environmental influences and contains up to 80-90 % of polysaccharides with different types of bonds. Cyclodextrin glucanotransferase microorganisms were tested and the following strains were selected Paenibacillus ehimensis IB-739, Paenibacillus illinoisensis IB-1087, Paenibacillus sp. IB-663, Paenibacillus macerans IB-I4. These strains were able to hydrolyze homopolysaccharides (starch, carboxyme-thylcellulose) and heteropolysaccharides (glucomannan, galactomannan). Cyclodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase, EC 2.4.1.19) is a multifunctional enzyme capable of catalyzing various types of reactions: cyclization, binding, disproportionation and hydrolysis. It was found that strains and their preparations of CGTase, in addition to cyclizing activity, have a hydrolyzing ability against α- and β-glicans. The method of cluster analysis for strains revealed substrate preferences during hydrolysis in favor of α glicans (P. ehimensis IB-739, Paenibacillus sp. IB-663) or β-glicans (P. illinoisensis IB-1087, P. macerans IB-I4). The advantage of the preparative form of the CGTase enzyme when exposed to the components of the fungal cell wall (α-glicans and β-glicans) in comparison with the intact effect of cellular hydrolases is shown. The culture of P. macerans IB-I4, whose CGTase equally hydrolyzes all the presented polymers, turned out to be the most active in terms of the degree of destruction of glicans. The prospect of using CGTase enzyme preparations as agents in the fight against phytopathogenic fungi is discussed.
STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF ISOTHIOCYANATES RELEASE FROM BENTONITE BASED COMPLEXES ON THE MICROBIOTA OF FOREST SOIL
Authors:   Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Sukhanova A.A. , Pozdnyakova A.V. ,   Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Zabolotnaya K.E. ,   Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Boyandin A.N. ,   Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia,   L.V. Kirensky Institute of Physics FRC KSC SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Ertiletskaya N.L. ,   Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Prokopchuk Yu.A. ,   Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Syrtsov S.N. ,   Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Published: December 2024

Isothiocyanates (ITCs) are substances formed in the result of hydrolysis of glucosinolates and widely found in plants of the cruciferous and Solanaceae families. ITCs are used in agriculture, medicine and the food industry. This article describes the preparation of complexes based on 3 types of ITCs (allyl isothionate (AITC), benzyl isothionate (BITC) and 2-phenylethyl isothiocinate (PEITC)) and their effect on ecologotrophic groups (ETG) of forest soil microorganisms. It has been proved that the deposition of ITC in bentonite contributes to the prolonged release of AITC, BITC, PEITC and reduces the time of their hydrolysis in the soil. Application of free forms of ITC decreased the number of ammonifiers by 2.6 times (when AITC was added), increased the number of nitrogen fixers up by 1.2 times (when BITC was added), and decreased the number of actinomycetes by 21, 1.4 and 1.9 times when AITC, PEITC and BITC were used, respectively. The number of micromycetes increased only when PEITC and BITC were introduced into the soil. The introduction of ITC/bentonite complexes into the soil resulted in a significant decrease in the number of ammonifiers for AITC/bentonite and PEITC/bentonite samples. The introduction of AITC/bentonite complex into the soil increased the number of nitrogen fixers, actinomycetes and micromycetes. The deposition of PEITC and BITC in the bentonite also led to an increase in the number of micromycetes and nitrogen fixers, respectively, which is most likely due to their low concentrations in contrast to free ITC.
BACTERIAL REMOVAL OF HEAVY METALS IONS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF SALTS
Authors:   Ufa Institute of Biology of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia, Korobov V.V. , Zharikova N.V. ,   Ufa Institute of Biology of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia, Zhurenko E.I. ,   Ufa Institute of Biology of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
Published: December 2024

Bacteria isolated from industrial ecotopes of Ufa were studied for the uptake of metal ions from aqueous solutions of salts simulating the composition of wastewater. The study found that Pb(II) and Cr(VI) ions were the most accessible to the studied strains ‒ they were removed from solutions by three strains each: Bacillus megaterium 32T, Raoultella planticola 36D, Raoultella planticola 33-4CPA and Pseudomonas sp. 34DCP, B. megaterium 32T, R. planticola 36D, respectively. The ability to remove Fe(III) ions was revealed in two cultures ‒ Bacillus subtilis 19S and B. megaterium 32T, Cd(II) and Cu(II) ions were removed only by the Pseudomonas sp. 34DCP strain. The most difficult for heavy metals ions removing by bacteria were Co(II) ions; not a single strain could interact with them. With the highest efficiency, over 70%, Pb(II) ions were removed from aqueous solutions of salts by cells of the strains B. megaterium 32T and R. planticola 33 4CPA, as well as Cr(VI) ions by B. megaterium 32T and R. planticola 36D cultures. With an efficiency of over 50%, Cd(II) and Cu(II) ions were removed by the Pseudomonas sp. 34DCP culture, Pb(II) ions by the R. planticola 36D culture, and Fe(III) ions by the B. subtilis 19S culture, respectively. In other cases, the efficiency of heavy metals ions removing from aqueous solutions of salts by bacteria was lower (from 37% to 41%).
Edvard Beneš and “The Stripe of Recognition of the USSR”. Conversation of ROSTA Correspondent R. O. Jakobson with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia on November 7, 1924
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Stankov Nikolay
Published: December 2024

In the article, based on archival materials, the author examines the attitude of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czechoslovak Republic Edvard Beneš towards the issue of recognition of the USSR in 1924. During this year, the Soviet Union was recognized de jure by eleven states, including Great Britain, France, Italy and China. This international process was called “the stripe of recognition of the USSR”. Czechoslovakia refrained from de jure recognition of the USSR, despite the fact that E. Beneš had repeatedly stated that Prague would immediately follow recognition by the great European powers. The article focuses on the analysis of Beneš’ conversation with the head of the press bureau of the Soviet plenipotentiary and correspondent of the Russian Telegraph Agency in Prague R. O. Jakobson, which took place on November 7, 1924. During the conversation, the Czechoslovak minister explained to Jakobson why Prague was not ready to recognize the USSR de jure. Taking into account the experience of European states that recognized the USSR by that time, Beneš believed that if Czechoslovakia followed their example, the activities of the Comintern would inevitably cause a deterioration in Czechoslovak-Soviet relations. This, in turn, would lead to undermining the positions of the political forces on which he and the country’s ruling elite were based. Under the conditions of the time, Beneš proposed limiting the connection between the countries to the development of cultural ties between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.
Historiography of the Second World War and the Perception of Soviet / Russian Historical Science in Yugoslavia in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Authors:   Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Timofeev Aleksey , Bajin Zoran ,   Institute for Recent History of Serbia
Published: December 2024

Comparing the documents of the Commission on International Relations of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and of the Union of Historians of Yugoslavia with scholarly periodicals published in Belgrade, the authors analyze the dynamics of the development of relations between Soviet / Russian and Yugoslav historians in 1946–2000. Particular attention is paid to the work of the Commission of Historians of the USSR and the SFRY in 1974–1991, which served as a substitute for direct contacts between historians of the two countries. In 1973, preparations began for the creation of an interstate Сommission of historians of the USSR and the SFRY, similar to other commissions operating between socialist countries and the USSR. Six plenary sessions of the bilateral commission were held (in 1974, 1975, 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1991). Only one scientific conference was held directly under the auspices of the Commission – in 1981 in Volgograd, and the collection of papers from this conference was published only in 1991 due to the intensity of the debates about the history of World War II. Information about the work of the Commission of Historians was irregular. The historiography of the Second World War was an extremely important topic in the perception of Soviet / Russian historiography in Yugoslavia in the second half of the 20th century.
Towards Authorship of the Church Slavonic Translation of the Preface to the 1597 Frankfurt Bible and Its Fate in the Polemical Literature at the Turn of the 17th ‒ 18th Centuries
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Verner Inna
Published: December 2024

The article presents a complete linguistic analysis of an only copy of the 17th century, which contains a Church Slavonic translation of the preface to the Greek Septuagint published in Frankfurt in 1597. The common linguistic features of the translation school of the Chudov Monastery have been identified. The presence of specific lexico-grammatical forms of the Epiphanius Slavinetsky’s idiolect, which are of Belarusian-Ukrainian origin and characteristic of other Epiphanius’ translations, made it possible to attribute to him the authorship of the translation, excluding other versions. The text was written by Epiphanius, probably, in the 1650‒1660s in connection with the revision of the Church Slavonic Bible translation. It has been established, that the translation was used in the 1690s in the compilation of the polemical treatise «Oblichenie na gazhdateli Svyashchennogo Pisaniya Biblii». The shortened and revised text of the biblical preface, together with fragments from the works of Athanasius of Alexandria, Epiphanius of Cyprus and Caesarius Baronius, was included in the section of the treatise devoted to the history of Greek biblical translations. The fate of excerpts from the preface in the complete copies of the polemical treatise is traced.
Field Research in the Veselovsky District of the Rostov Region among the Descendants of Repatriates from Uruguay
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pilipenko Gleb , Saenko Mikhail ,   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Published: December 2024

The paper discusses the results of fieldwork in the Veselovsky district of the Rostov region among the descendants of repatriates from Uruguay, Russians by origin, followers of the religious movement “New Israel”. The researchers were interested in the Russian-Spanish bilingualism and Uruguayan customs and traditions brought by the settlers to Russia. These traditions have been preserved in the Krasny Oktyabr (Red October) colony for almost a century. Good preservation of food practices brought from Uruguay is attested. The largest number of Spanish words is attested in the everyday cuisine. The colony residents still drink mate tea, they cook puchero. We have not witnessed active Russian-Spanish bilingualism, only some lexemes and quotations, which nevertheless allow us to get an idea of the disappeared sociolinguistic situation in Krasny Oktyabr. Spanish language was spoken by the first generation of migrants and those who were born and educated in Uruguay. Besides interview recordings, the work was carried out with written sources, in particular, with a handwritten collection of spiritual songs of the New Israel community. Many of the songs are identical to the songs in the collection that the researchers found in San Javier. Important data on ethnic and religious nicknames that referred to repatriates from Uruguay were collected. In the future, the authors plan to compare the dialect features of the Russian speech of the informants living in Krasny Oktyabr and in San Javier.
Nation and Emigration (Based on the Material of Hungarian Literature)
Authors: Gusev Yury
Published: December 2024

The history of Hungary and the region as a whole developed in such a way that emigration became a common occurrence. After the Second World War, this process became especially intense; not accepting the communist dictatorship and dependence on the USSR, many writers emigrated too. By deciding to emigrate, a writer breaks his civil ties, that is, rejects the given state, in which he feels uncomfortable, oppressed, and therefore could not fully reveal his talent. There were also attempts to reject or “change” national identity. For example, this can be seen in the work of the Hungarian writer Farkas Péter (the story “Eight Minutes”). But few people succeed in this (if they succeed at all) – Milan Kundera has probably advanced further along this path (and even he did not complete it: either he did not have time, or he could not; most likely, he could not). One must think that great talent includes a certain national component, associated primarily with the native language. Attempts to abandon this component threaten to destroy talent, and so the writer is forced to “capitulate” and return to his national core. Farkas Péter also returns to it, and in his latest works he addresses the environment in which he grew up and was formed as a person.
Perception of Russia and Russian Literature in the Czech Moderní Revue Magazine in the 1920s
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Amelina Anna
Published: December 2024

In the 1920s, after the Czech Republic gained national independence, in conditions of highly politicized culture, when periodicals played a major role in ideological propaganda and public polemics, and the political and cultural life of Russia was one of the main objects of reception and a tool for manipulating public opinion, the founder of the “Moderní Revue” magazine, which appeared at the turn of the century promoting modernist art, A. Procházka, gave it a radical nationalist orientation. The reorientation of the periodical to socio-political issues also affected the perception of Russia and Russian literature. Most of the materials about them, representing a pronounced anti-Bolshevik and at the same time anti-Semitic position, were associated with revolutionary events and their influence on the Czech Republic and Czech culture – the Russian Revolution, for example, became the impetus for the emergence of the phenomenon of legionnaire literature. Adhering to the views of refined aestheticism, the editors rejected politically engaged Soviet literature, but at the same time, the work of emigrants aroused among critics only regret at the death of a once great nation. Admiration on the pages of the magazine was expressed only in relation to the work of F. M. Dostoevsky, in whose case, publications of his work or about him in Czech were criticized for not taking his legacy seriously enough.
Poetics of the Comic in the Dramaturgy of Matei Vișniec
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Usacheva Anastasia
Published: December 2024

The article addresses two pieces by Matei Vișniec, written in different years (“The Last Godot” (1987) and “The Story of the Panda Bears Told by a Saxophonist Who Had a Girlfriend in Frankfurt” (1995)), from the point of view of the poetics of the comic. The analysis is based on theoretical constructions of Bohdan Dziemidok reflected in his work “On the Comic” (“O Komizmie”) (1974). It is proved that in the forementioned plays by Vișniec the main techniques singled out by Dziemidok (modification and deformation of phenomena, unexpected effects and striking juxtapositions, imaginary unification of different phenomena, deviations from praxeological or logical norms) occur. In addition, it is argued that the plays inherit the theater of the absurd in terms of the ways of the comic (absence of action, misleading title, repetitions, pseudo-logic, quantitative growth of objects, acceleration of tempo, open ending, doppelgangers, loss of memory, etc.), and that the themes of loneliness, decay and death significant for the absurdists are developed. The main function of the comic in Vișniec’s work is protective, reducing dramatic pathos through laughter. Grotesque, irony and humor are necessary to exalt oneself over circumstances.
“Yugoslav Atlantis” in the Balkan and Central European Optics of Dragan Velikić
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Polyakov Dmitry
Published: December 2024

The article offers an analysis of Serbian writer Dragan Velikić’s book of essays “Yu-tlantis” (1993), which records the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the gradual cessation of the all-Yugoslav cultural space. Criticizing Serbian and Croatian nationalists, Velikić consistently rejects the polarization of the space and declares the nonfunctionality of many established oppositions (Serbian / Croatian, Byzantium / Rome, Bolshevism / Fascism) in relation to it. Velikić in his book refers to the images of the bridge and the path, key to the Balkan model of the world. Two bridges are contrasted – on the Drina (I. Andrić) and on the Neretva (the destruction of this bridge by Tito’s army in 1943 was one of the key events of the communist myth). Velikić applies to Yugoslavia the communicative means and motifs characteristic of the well-known discourse on Central Europe (M. Kundera, Cz. Miłosz, D. Kiš, etc.), continuing and developing it. According to Velikić, the main value of Yugoslavia lies in the joint cultural creativity of its peoples. The participants in the discussions about Central Europe in the 1980s saw the axiological significance of Central Europe in the same way.
“Eternal Present”. Photographic Vision of Andrzej Stasiuk (“On the Way to Babadag”)
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Adelgeym Irina
Published: December 2024

The article analyses a travelogue by a well-known contemporary writer Andrzej Stasiuk. The book is devoted to the space of the Central European province, mediated by the emotions of melancholy, anxiety, nostalgia, which torment the narrator, who is connected with the described territory by the relationship of own / own (rather than own / alien). The key categories of decay, falling apart, and timelessness for the narrator’s perception of the periphery of Central and South-Eastern Europe and their place in the structure of the text are analysed. Defining the narrative strategy used by Stasiuk as photographic vision, the author explores its artistic and psychological reasons and tasks. The text is designed not so much to record what has been seen, as to imitate the imaginative process of recollection, which, in turn, reconstructs the process of seeing and endlessly reproduces the experiences of the viewer of the photograph. This proves to be the only way for the narrator to counteract the agonizing fragmentation of the worldview. The place and tasks of A. Kertész’s repetitive ekphrasis of real photography are analysed, as well as the role of photographic vision in the attempt to avoid historical perspective and to achieve spatial balance in the semantic field of Poland / Eastern Europe / Central Europe / Europe, which is painful for the Polish mentality.
Images of Peasantry in Polish Dialogues of the Bar Confederation and the Great Sejm Eras
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Fadeev Ivan
Published: December 2024

The article is devoted to the analysis of the genre of dialogue in Polish literature of the last third of the 18th century. The author compares works created during the era of the Bar Confederation (1768–1772) and the Great Sejm (1788–1792), paying special attention to the analysis of the role and significance of peasant characters. The dialogues of the era of the Bar Confederation are more consistent with the traditions of this genre established in the 16th – 17th centuries. On their pages, peasants are rare and are significantly inferior in popularity to other characters: nobles, priests and foreigners. Their only plot function is satirical: the serious remarks they utter have an a priori comic overtone and devalue the original message. In the dialogues of the Great Sejm era, peasants become the most popular characters, directly voicing current political and social problems of Polish society. If previously the interlocutors of the peasants could only be heroes close in social status, then in the works of 1788–1792 they had equal conversations with their landowners. The author records the change in previously existing traditions of the dialogue genre and examines it in the context of the problems of the Great Sejm. The author formulates a hypothesis about the correspondence of this process to the emergence of Polish national identity.
The Orthodoxy and the Cult of the Catholic Saint Andrew Bobola in the 19th – Beginning of the 20th Century
Authors:   Saint Petersburg State University, Koronevskii Viktor
Published: December 2024

The article is devoted to the history of changes in the attitude of Orthodox clergy and publicists to the figure of the Catholic martyr Andrew Bobola, a Jesuit killed in the middle of the 17th century by Orthodox Cossacks. It is shown that in the first half of this period (until the 1850s) the veneration of the saint had a transconfessional character. Some representatives of the educated Orthodox community (Archbishop Vasily (Luzhinsky), Bishop Daniel (Nattok-Mikhailovsky), K. A. Govorsky) were inclined to acknowledge the authenticity of the legend originating in Pinsk in the 18th century. According to it, the saint was not a Jesuit killed by the Orthodox, but an Orthodox martyr killed by Catholics. The reasons that caused changes in the attitude towards Andrew Bobola in the 1850s – 1860s are examined. There is a tendency towards declining trust in the legend of the “Orthodox Bobola”, which resulted in the identification of his cult by the Orthodox church as an instrument in the hands of forces hostile to the Church and Russia. The article demonstrates the process of formation of an alternative Orthodox version of the biography of Andrew Bobola, which acknowledges the saint’s affiliation with Catholicism, but perceives him as an analogue of St. Josaphat Kuntsevich. This implies the characteristics of a soul-grabber, a murderer and persecutor of Orthodoxy, who, in the opinion of Orthodox authors, deserved a tragic ending through his actions.
“You Cannot Endlessly Exploit the Patience of Communists...” The Special Position of V. M. Molotov on the Issue of Rapprochement with Yugoslavia and Its Criticism by N. S. Khrushchev Viewed by Ordinary Members of the CPSU (1955)
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Stykalin Alexander
Published: December 2024

After Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, his successors in the Kremlin leadership faced the need to correct to some extent the confrontational foreign policy of the USSR. The Soviet-Yugoslav conflict, which continued to remain a serious source of tension not only on a regional, but also on a pan-European scale, also required a solution. By the beginning of 1955, two approaches were taking shape in Soviet policy on the Yugoslav question. V. M. Molotov proposed to normalize the relations with Yugoslavia according to the standards of relations with an “ordinary capitalist state” (including some revival of economic ties with it). N. S. Khrushchev, with the support of the majority of members of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee, proposed to take a course towards involving this large and strategically important Balkan country in the Soviet camp, hoping that this would become a clear foreign policy success for the USSR. Molotov’s position turned out to be more realistic – Tito’s Yugoslavia, interested in normalizing relations and expanding cooperation with the USSR, at the same time strongly resisted any attempts to limit its sovereignty. Having not solved the assigned foreign policy problem, Khrushchev at the same time used the special opinion of his opponent to weaken his position in the leadership of the CPSU. This caused misunderstanding in the party circles. The anonymous letters included in our publication show that in the atmosphere of the thaw of the mid-1950s, ordinary communists increasingly raised sharp issues that during Stalin’s lifetime it was not customary to raise for fear of persecution. They, in particular, paid attention to incorrectness of criticism of Molotov in July 1955 at the session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which was based not so much on the search for an optimal political course, but on an unprincipled struggle for power, which, according to the senders of the letters, could damage the authority of the party.
Milorad Ekmečić’s Long Journey to Understanding the Relationship between Yugoslavism and the Serbian National Idea
Authors:   Lomonosov Moscow State University, Kuzmicheva Lyudmila
Published: December 2024

The book by the famous Yugoslav and Serbian scholar Milorad Ekmečić (1928–1915) was first published in 2007. It went through seven editions in Serbia. Now it has been translated into Russian for the first time. The monograph by M. Ekmečić is devoted to the key events in the history of the Serbian people over five hundred years from 1492 to 1992. The author offers an original periodization of Serbian history in modern times and examines the reasons for the formation and collapse of the multinational Yugoslav state. The Russian edition is provided with scientific commentary, chronological tables, maps, and a terminological dictionary.
The Era of Catherine the Great. The View of a Hungarian Historian
Authors: Józsa György Zoltán
Published: December 2024

The article offers a review of the book ‘Lights and Shades in the State of Catherine II’ by László V. Molnár, which was published in Hungarian by Balatoni Akadémia Kiadó in Keszthely. The reputable Hungarian historian known for his works on 18th century Russia, showcases in this book the outcome of his research and evaluates Catherine’s reign in a broader international context, in an unbiased manner, as a Golden Age in Russian History, whose achievements and impact in geopolitics, economy, and culture, are still felt in today’s Russia. The monograph is made up of 3 chapters. The author first scrutinises the experiment of Catherine the Great in legal reforms, documented in Nakaz and the records of the work of the Legislative Commission, by showing its benefits and causes of failure. Chapter 2 draws up the historical figure and military success of De Ribas, a foreign subject welcomed in Russia, who made a fine career with the naval fleet. Admiral Ushakov is featured in chapter 3, whose course of life and great professional merits give a deep insight into bright standards of social mobility, successful military education and state administration of the time.
A New Book about Russian Volunteers on the Balkans at 1876
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leskinen Maria
Published: December 2024

Monograph by Saratov historians O. V. Kochukova and S. A. Kochukov is dedicated to the Russian volunteers’ participation in the Balkan events of 1876. The ideas of Slavic brotherhood and Slavic reciprocity, which were widespread in the Russian Empire in the 1860s and 1870s, acquired special significance in 1876, in the wake of public support to the South Slavs uprisings. These sentiments had a significant influence on the political decisions that resulted in the subsequent Russian-Turkish War of 1877–1878. The authors focus on travel descriptions, notes, archives and publications by volunteers from the Saratov province (the most significant ones were published as part of this monograph with extensive authors’ comments). The research part of the book analyzes the characteristics of the social content of the Russian volunteer movement, their worldview and perception of the Slavic Orthodox “brothers”. Considerable space is devoted to ethnocultural images and stereotypes of South Slavs. The authors examine Soviet and Russian historiography of the Balkan and Eastern issues in Russian imperial politics of the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries and the anthropological approaches of latest researchers, who analyze the experience of Russian participants in the Balkan wars of the 1870s. in the context of historical verification of the ideals of Slavic brotherhood.
The Round Table “The Notions of the New and the Old in the Balkan Languages and Cultures”
Authors:   Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sedakova Irina
Published: December 2024

The Round Table “The Notions of the New and the Old in the Balkan Languages and Cultures”, March 26, 2024.
العنف ضد المرأة وانعكاساته على التنشئة الاجتماعية للأبناء/ دراسة تحليلية
Authors: أنوار محمود علي م.
Published: January 2025

لقد احتل العنف ضد المرأة وانعكاساته على تنشئة الأبناء على اهتمام كبير من قبل الباحثين والمنظمات الدولية وظاهرة العنف تمتد جذورها في كل الأمم والحضارات والثقافات والعنف ضد المرأة مشكلة عالمية لا تقتصر على مجتمع بعينه أو شريحة اجتماعية دون غيرها وهو سلوك مرفوض لما له من انعكاسات سلبية على كيان الأسرة وسلامتها وأمنها وإن كانت هناك مؤشرات على ارتباطه بالظروف الاقتصادية والاجتماعية للأسرة إضافة لكونها مشكلة متعددة الأبعاد والأشكال والآثار النفسية والصحية والاجتماعية والثقافية ومتداخلة بحقوق وواجبات كل أعضاء الأسرة وعلاقتهم بالمجتمع.
فالعنف الممارس ضد المرأة يشيع جو التوتر مما يؤدي إلى ظهور اضطراب لدى الأبناء كالخوف والأنانية والغيرة وعدم الاتزان العاطفي، لأن شعور المرأة الزوجة الأم بعدم الارتياح يظهر أثر سلبي في رعايتها لأبنائها واهتمامها بهم.
وهذا ما تحاول الدراسة تقديمه وذلك من خلال معرفة أهم الأسباب التي تؤدي إلى تعنيف المرأة وتحديد أشكال وصور العنف الممارس ضدها، وكذلك معرفة ما يخلفه العنف من آثار على الأبناء وانعكاسه على عدة جوانب هامة من شأنها أن تعيق نموهم في الإطار السليم فدراسة موضوع العنف ضد المرأة وانعكاساته على تنشئة الأبناء وتحديد أسبابه وأنواعه وآثاره بمثابة عملية تشخيص وتعتبر خطوة مهمة في سبيل الوقاية والعلاج والحد من تفاقم هذه الظاهرة.
دراسة تداولية لأفعال الكلام في وصف حقوق الايتام في الخطاب الديني في اللغتين الانكليزية والعربية
Authors: بان اسعد عبود م.م.
Published: January 2025

تعتبر اللغة وسيلة للتواصل الاجتماعي. ومن المتفق عليه أن اللغة تستعمل بشكل مختلف طبقا للمواقف المختلفة التي تستعمل فيها.عادة ما تعتبر اللغة المستخدمة في الحياة اليومية مختلفة في جميع الجوانب اللغوية عن تلك المستخدمة في المناسبات العامة. ويعتبر الدين أحد القيم الاجتماعية والثقافية التي تستخدم اللغة وفقا لها. وتعتبر النصوص الدينية في مختلف الاديان نصوصا مقدسة ومصادر موثوقة للإرشاد والحكمة. تهدف الدراسة إلى معالجة أفعال الكلام الاكثر شيوعا في آيات مختارة من الكتاب المقدس والقرآن الكريم ومعرفة الفروق بين اللغتين الانكليزية والعربية. ولهذا تم اجراء تحليل تداولي لآيات مختارة من الانجيل والقران الكريم ضمن التصنيف الذي وضعه باخ وهارنيش (1979م) . وقد استندت الدراسة على أربعين نصا تم اختيارهم بشكل عشوائي من الكتاب المقدس والقرآن الكريم. ولكن اقتصرت النصوص المختارة على الآيات التي تصف حقوق الأيتام. وقد أظهرت النتائج أن النوع الاكثر استخداما من افعال الكلام في الخطاب الديني هو نفسه في اللغتين الانكليزية والعربية.علاوة على ذلك, افعال الكلام التي تخص الأمر والنهي تم استخدامها بشكل متكرر في الخطاب الديني وذلك للتأكيد على أهمية الحفاظ على حقوق اليتيم في المجتمع.
مشكلة الوجود والماهية في فلسفة ابن سينا في الدراسات العربية
Authors: عبد الستار حسن عبد الستار السعدي م. م.
Published: January 2025

لا شكّ في كون مفهوم (الوجود) أعمَّ من كلّ شيء يمكن إدراكه؛ إذ كلّ ما نعرفه من ذات ومعارف يقع ضمن حيّز هذا المفهوم، وهذا هو ما يُعرف بالوجود الظاهري أو الوجود القابل للإدراك الحسّي الذي يقابله في الإنجليزية (Existence)، لكن هنالك وجود يُتعامَلُ معه فلسفياً يُعرف بالوجود الحقيقي أو وجود الكينونة الذي يقابله بالإنجليزية (Being)، وهو ما سنتناوله في بحثنا هذا، وقد يكون من المستغرب أن يُسأل أحدٌ عن تعريف الوجود؛ فهو من الوضوح بمكانٍ يجعله يندّ عن كلّ محاولة تعريفٍ تُوضحه؛ لأنّه أوضح من كلّ شيء. ومع هذا فإنّ للفلاسفة كلام آخر؛ إذ إنّهم يتعاملون في تأمّلهم مع وجود الكينونة وليس فقط مع الوجود الظاهري، إذ إنّهم عمدوا إلى محاولاتٍ لوضع تعريفات له، لدواعٍ متعدّدة، يأتي في مقدّمتها متطلبات التأمّل الميتافيزيقي الذي يتوقّف على تحديد كلِّ مفهوم يُراد البحثُ فيه.
  ولسعة مفهوم الوجود بمعنييه الظاهري والحقيقي، فإنّه يرتبط بمفهومِ (الماهية)، هذا المفهوم منذ أرسطو سبّب مشكلةً من حيث ارتباطه بالوجود، ومن هنا ظهرت مشكلة الوجود والماهية، وأُثيرت أسئلةٌ من قبيل: هل يمكن الفصل بين الوجود والماهية فتتقدّم الماهية على الوجود على الرغم من شمول الوجود للماهية؟ وما حقيقةُ موقف ابن سينا من هذه المشكلة؟ وهل ثمّةَ اختلاف في موقف ابن سينا كما يرى بعضُ الباحثين أم لا كما يرى آخرون؟
هذه التساؤلات هي التي ستشكل دعامة البحث، وعليها سنصل إلى نتيجةٍ مختلفةٍ بحسب قراءةٍ مغايرة للمعهود في تناول هذه المشكلة.