bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The French book illustration in the Russian cover-version at the end of XVIII century
Authors: Borshch Elena
Published: March 2020

The focus of this article is the illustrations from the Russian edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses of 1794–1795, which have been repeated from the unknown foreign book. The result of this research is a finding of the source of the Russian illustrations, the engravings from the Dutch edition of 1732 intended for the French book market. There is an attempt to prove authorship of these anonymous illustrations in the article, which includes comparisons of illustrations from the Dutch, Flemish, French and Russian editions. Thus the Russian illustrations were neither copies, nor free variations on a theme. They have appeared as mirror versions and replicas with the changed details of the illustrations of 1732.
O rizomie i cechach rizomatycznych na przykładzie powieści Michaiła Szyszkina „Взятие Измаила”
Authors: Nowak Gabriela
Published: March 2020

The article is dedicated to the philosophical concept of rhizome developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The author tries to define the capabilities and limitations of rhizome in becoming a methodology for the interpretation of texts. Analysis of the six rhizome principles: connection and heterogeneity, multiplicity, asignifying rupture, cartography and decalcomania, based on Mikhail Shishkin’s novel “The Taking of Izmail”, shows that only the rules of connection and heterogeneity and asignifying rupture seem to originate from European philosophical tradition. Therefore, only these three rules of rhizome may become a method of literary interpretation.
The Orenburg Political Link as the Mechanism of Accumulation: the Case of Bronislav Zalesky and Candid Zelenko
Authors: Lyubichankovskiy Sergey
Published: March 2020

The article is devoted to the analysis of life and activities in the Orenburg region of Bronislaw Zalessky and Kandid Zelenko, who were exiled there for political reasons in the first half of the XIX century. The theoretical basis of the article is the concept of acculturation. The study is based primarily on unpublished sources from the State Archives of the Orenburg region, with respect to which the method of historical reconstruction has been used. It is concluded that people who were exiled to a remote province eventually became embedded in the structure of the local society in such a way that they became the vehicles of European culture and education in the Orenburg region. At the same time, they themselves in the course of living in exile fell in love with the place of their exile, became its patriots and popularizers outside the borders of the Russian Empire.
Atrakcyjność inwestycyjna a napływ bezpośrednich inwestycji zagranicznych (na przykładzie wybranych krajów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej)
Authors: Kisiel Roman , Graszkiewicz Kamil
Published: March 2020

The aim of this study is to compare the investment attractiveness of six selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe, namely Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and Ukraine. The basic data used to examine the level of investment attractiveness in these countries were the basic macroeconomic indicators, i.e. the level of GDP in global and per capita terms, average salary, inflation and unemployment rate. In the next step, international economic rankings were used, as a result of which it was possible to classify the countries in perspective of their competitiveness, prevailing legal regulations for running a business and the scope of economic freedom.
Stosunki gospodarcze i handlowe ZSRR – Niemcy w latach 1918–1940 (część 1)
Authors: Klimiuk Zbigniew
Published: March 2020

The author analyzes in his paper the economic and trade relations between Germanyand the Soviet Union in the period of 1918–1944. During this period trade relations withGermany constituted a continuation of relations between Tsarist Russia and Germany beforeWorld War I. The German-Soviet Economic Agreement of October 12, 1925, formed specialconditions for the mutual trade relations between the two countries. In addition to the normalexchange of goods, German exports to the Soviet Union were based from the very beginningon a system negotiated by the Soviet Trade Mission to Berlin under which the Soviet Union wasgranted loans for financing additional orders from Germany. Trade with Soviet Union, promotedby the first credit-based operations, led to a dynamic exchange of goods, which reached itshighest point in 1931. In the early 1930s, however, Soviet imports decreased as regime assertedpower and its weakened adherence to the disarmament requirements of the Treaty of Versaillesdecreased Germany’s reliance on Soviet imports. In addition, the Nazi Party’s ascent to powerincreased tensions between Germany and the Soviet Union. In the mid-1930s, the Soviet Unionmade repeated efforts at reestablishing closer contacts with Germany. The Soviets chieflysought to repay, with raw materials, the debts which arose from earlier trade exchange, whileGermany sought to rearm, therefore both countries signed a credit agreement in 1935. The saidagreement placed at the disposal of the Soviet Union until June 30, 1937, the loans amountingto 200 million Reichsmarks, to be repaid in the period 1940–1943. The Soviet Union used183 million Reichsmarks from this credit. The preceding credit operations were, in principle,liquidated. Economic reconciliation was hampered by political tensions after the Anschluss inmid-1938 and Hitler’s increasing hesitance to deal with the Soviet Union. However, a new periodin the development of Soviet–German economic relations began after the Ribbetrop–MolotovAgreement, which was concluded in August of 1939.
Conflict Resolution Strategy as Political Integration Resource: Theoretical Perspectives on Resolving Ethnic Conflicts in the North Caucasus
Authors: Popov Maxim
Published: March 2020

This article explores the different approaches to study of conflict resolution strategyfrom a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. It argues that conflict resolution strategy aspolitical integration resource is a necessary tool for overcoming deep-rooted ethnic conflictsin the instable region of North Caucasus. The author considers structural factors of protractedconflicts and emphasizes a destabilizing role of the re-politicization of ethnicity of a regionsociety in crisis. The concept of ethnic “identity-based” conflicts is the heuristic theoreticalmodel of exploring causes for increased ethno-confessional tensions in the North Caucasus.The article focuses on the ability of conflict resolution theory to de-escalate growing ethnoconfessionaltensions and transform protracted ethnic conflicts. Interdisciplinary approach toanalyzing conflict resolution strategy as political integration resource, while combining conflicttheory and neo-functionalistic paradigm, is the methodological basis of this research. The needto stimulate political integration is caused by moral and structural causes: from the ethical pointof view, the creation of an inclusive society is the fundamental societal goal; structural factorsare related to the need to reduce inequalities and differences leading to social fragmentationand escalation of ethnic conflicts. Among the socio-political conditions of the North Caucasianconflicts, the author calls social inequalities, civil identity crisis, authoritarian and ethnopolitical“renaissance”, economic polarization, “ideological combat” between the secular modernizationand fundamentalism. Discussing conflict resolution strategy as political integration resource,it is necessary to consider the following: 1) North Caucasian integration is a macro-politicalproject, the content of which is determined by issues of social security of multiethnic Russia;2) development of the North Caucasus after the end of armed ethnic conflicts shows theinadmissibility of structural demodernization, fundamentalism and cultural isolationism. Today,the North Caucasus remains a crucially geopolitical macro-region, as it forms the southernvolatile frontier of Russia. In this case, conflict resolution strategy must serve as preventive tool onthe conflict environment by way of providing structural solutions for deep-rooted socio-culturalproblems, transforming and rationalizing regional ethnic contradictions.
Survival Patterns: Marriage Migration of Women from the CIS in South Korea
Authors: Yem Natalya
Published: March 2020

The paper is based on the theoretical assumption that the use of the word ‘survival’in the context of international migration can characterize the main problems associated withsettling and adapting to life in Korea. The author pursues the goal to reveal social representations,processes of psychological nature, the changed states of consciousness of women who aremarriage migrants from the countries of the post-Soviet space to South Korea. To realize thisgoal, the author conducted an analysis of the content of the Internet forum of Russian-speakingwomen. The information blocks which predetermine the perception of the surrounding realityand cultivated stereotypes were identified. The research was carried out within the frameworkof interdisciplinary analysis using historical-cultural and comparative-typological methods, aswell as methods of cognitive linguistics, semiotics and statistical analysis.
Genre Features of an Inscription (Dedication)
Authors: Albut Anastasiya
Published: March 2020

An inscription (dedication) is analyzed as a speech genre on the set of texts byYakub Kolas (242 items) and Yanka Kupala (139 items). These writers are among those whocreated the modern literary Belarusian language and are highly appreciated in the society, sotheir communicative experience is worth examining. There are two main genre features of aninscription: substrate (any surface, on which something is written to be given to somebody) andinscription structure. Usually it deals with the basic model, consisting of several units. But thereare examples of modified basic inscription models. It helps a speaker to express his attitude toan addressee making such utterances a valuable object of pragmatics.
Struktury propozycjonalno-semantyczne w bułgarskich, polskich i rosyjskich zdaniach ufundowanych na predykatach w formie verba cogitandi i verba sentiendi
Authors: Kiklewicz Aleksander
Published: March 2020

The author presents the results of the analysis of Bulgarian, Polish and Russiansentences based on mental and emotive verbs. These sentences are described in termsof propositional-semantic structures implemented in grammatical forms. The main focus is onthe types of profiling in the mind of mental reflection and emotional experience as the areasof reference for the verbal sentences. The author analyzes two classes of verbs in terms of thefunctionality of the various types of propositions, and takes into account the specificities of eachof the studied Slavic languages.
On linguoaxiological research of regional media discourse
Authors: Pushkareva Irina
Published: March 2020

The article examines linguo-axiological specificity of the regional media discoursethrough integration of functional stylistics, discourse analysis and axiological linguisticsmethods. The material for semantic and stylistic analysis includes over 2500 texts of the citynewspaper “Kuznetsky rabochy” (Novokuznetsk, Russia) since 1980 to 2014. Appeal to mediatexts of this period is tied with important changes in spiritual life of Russian society. Thesechanges were caused by perestroika, as well as by the transformation of modern personal valuesystem. According to results of the research, it is possible to conclude that the value categoryof truth is the base of the axiological sphere supra-regional component in a local edition. On thecontrary, the base of the axiological sphere regional component in local mass media performscommemorative and local historical function. This function determines semantic and stylisticfeatures of the main hypertopic (topic of a region, city) and of local historical dominants ina regional edition.
Plug-in constructions as means of expressing ethno-cultural information in artistic texts of a bilingual writer
Authors: Tumanova Ainakul
Published: March 2020

The article investigates the means of expression of ethno-cultural information in artistic text, in particular plug-in constructions. It provides a brief overview of scientific sources on this issue. The purpose of the article is to observe how plug-in constructions express additional, explanatory information to the information presented in the artistic text. As a result of analysis of the actual material, the work presents an attempt of generalization and systematization of various types of plug-in constructions and their subspecies. The inserts explain / supplement / specify the contents of a historical event / person; represent important information in the sentence structure/ complex syntactic integer; reflect the inner state of the narrator / character; exhibit the individual-author’s style. To illustrate each type of insertion are given examples from the works of the Russian-speaking writer from Kazakhstan – A. Alimzhanov.
Sur la nature et l’artefact (neuf fragments tisses). Hommage a Francisco Infante
Authors: Constantini Michel
Published: March 2020

This article follows our several previous studies in Russian art of the XXth century. It is dedicated to Francisco Infante-Arana (born 1943), Russian painter of Spanish origin, creator of a “new artistic language” (State Prize of the Russian Federation, 1996), author of an original theory of art developed since 1976 and named the “concept of artifact”. If the spiritual continuity between the work of Francisco Infante and that of Kazimir Malevich has already been established for a long time as a commonplace in contemporary art studies (just remember the title of a series of works by Francisco Infante, “Suprematic Games. Hommage to Malevich”, 1968, from the cycle “Spontaneous Games in Nature”), the relationship between the inventor of the concept of artifact and the founder of the abstractionism in painting, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), has not yet been a subject of targeted research. In our current study, we propose to address this uneasy issue by returning to the origins of the philosophical thought, and namely to the speculations on the phenomena of art in their relation to the phenomena of nature. This approach seems justified insofar as the abstractionism radically challenges the very foundations of art, reposing, since ancient times, on the primacy of mimesis, and rebuild this ruined aesthetic system, paradoxically, on the principles which, having been scrutinized more closely, seem not to lack some affinity with the worldview of the first “philosophers”, so-called Presocratics. Thus, our purpose will be to raise the first elements of the Ancient Greek thought that appear at the base of the artistic creation and theoretical representations of Francisco Infante.
Panegyric as a genre of sermon: pragmatic aspect (based on the sermons by the metropolitan Arseniy (Yakovenko) of Svyatogorsk)
Authors: Shepitko Svitlana , Smirnova Mariya
Published: March 2020

The paper focuses on a pragmatic study of panegyric as one of the essential genres of Orthodox sermon. It is aimed to study linguistic means representing panegyric strategies and tactics in Russian and Ukrainian. The results of the research of 100 panegyrics belonging to Metropolitan of Svyatogorsk Arseny exemplify linguistic peculiarities, bilingualism being his style determining element. Lots of axiological elements are indicative for his speech; however pseudo dialogue and means of creating comic effect which are inherent for Orthodox sermon are absent. Prevailing topics are war, life in Donbas region, Svyatogorsk Monastery’s spiritual activity. The metropolitan of Svyatogorsk Arseny’s panegyric avoids appellatives, imperatives, tactics of aggression and fascination; his global strategy is educational as he exemplifies and calls to holiness. The outcome of our investigation proves that the homilist Metropolitan of Svyatogorsk Arseny belongs to adherents of antirhetorical approach to converting, whose speech is devoid of high style, abstractness and rhetoric, and who considers the spiritual image of the shepherd the main guarantee of successful preaching.
Poetics of the game in the M. A. Bulgakov’s novel “Master and Margarita”: the image of cat Begemoth
Authors: Golikova Guzel
Published: March 2020

The article deals with the question of the functioning of the game code of M. Bulgakov’s novel “Master and Margarita”. The focus of the researcher is the image of the cat Begemoth, one of the members of the Woland suite. The article explores the connection between the image of the cat and the figure of Hans Sachs, a well-known representative of the German Renaissance. Principles of game conjugation of two figures are buffoonery, carnival, satire. At the same time, the three hypostases of the cat Begemoth (the cat – fat man – a boy with a knight (pazh) refer the reader to the figure of Leo Taxil (the French writer Gabriel Zhogan Pazhes), the punning allusion which is found in the last chapters of the novel and is determined by the writer’s position in depicting the religious question.
Wojna na Lubelszczyźnie w latach 1914-1915 w świetle wspomnień
Authors: Korzeniowski Mariusz
Published: March 2020

The present publication discusses the attitude of the residents of the Lublin areatowards the outbreak, the course and outcome of the war, as well as its impact on the everydaylife of civilian population in the years 1914–1915. The memoirs and personal accountschosen to this end allow for the determination of the prevailing social attitudes, as they reflectthe opinions of not just the well-educated and self-conscious strata, but also the “silent” partof the society, i.e. that which had been affected the most by the war, and where the majorityof refugees originated from – both during the local resettlements in 1914, and the forcedmigration of the citizens of Congress Poland into Russia’s interior, caused by the soullessdecisions of the Russian authorities in the following year.
Ojczystość i dziedzictwo pogranicza w twórczości Sokrata Janowicza (na wybranych przykładach)
Authors: Frankowiak Anita
Published: March 2020

Sokrat Janowicz is a Belarusian writer, a resident of Krynki, author of over twenty books, apologist Belarusian signs and signs enclosed in a beautiful word – Native Land. Discussion opens and closes the frontier – open space, without borders, multicultural and emotional. Native Land its most important element. The aim of the article is to identify and define the categories of Native Land in the writing by Sokrat Janowicz. It was assumed that it is precisely this category is superior to all others appearing in his work, is the key not only to the Belarusian home, or to his Belarusian, but also for being European.
Endangered-language dictionaries from the perspective of the dictionary maker and speech community
Authors: Ivanishcheva Olga
Published: March 2020

The article discusses issues related to making a dictionary of an endangered language, specifically the case of Kildin Saami, the language of the ethnos that inhabits only the Kola peninsula in Russia. The article considers three oppositions: “dictionary versus language”, “dictionary versus user”, and “dictionary versus dictionary maker”, which lead to a conclusion regarding the peculiarities of the work of a lexicographer making such a dictionary. The article describes issues related to the variety of language and orthography selected and the scope of the speaker’s background knowledge, which has a tendency to shrink or transform under conditions where speakers are aging, traditional folk culture is being lost, and there are global changes in the sociocultural environment of the ethnos.
Ukraińcy o własnych błędach w polszczyźnie. Przykład statystycznej analizy danych w glottodydaktycznych badaniach eksploracyjnych
Authors: Izdebska-Długosz Dominika
Published: March 2020

In the article the results of survey research on the assessment of errors made in Polish by Ukrainians and Poles, as stated by Ukrainian students learning Polish as a foreign language, are shown. This research was a part of twofold research in which students from Poland participated as well, assessing the character and importance of linguistic errors made by foreigners and native speakers of Polish. At first. the results were shown by means of traditionally counting up the number of particular responses. Nonetheless, the information about how much and what kind of additional data could be gained thanks to elements of statistical analysis of data conducted on the same survey is shown in this paper. The results may convince one that statistical analysis of pilot or exploratory nature is worth conducting even with a small research sample, as it allows for highlighting particular problems which should be taken into account while preparing research tools for proper research.
Intertextuality reception in postmodernist discourse
Authors: Bezrukov Andrey N.
Published: March 2020

The main study subject of the article is intertextual postmodern text interaction with the legacy of Russian classics of XIX–XX centuries. A cultural dialogue being a semantic point of convergence of the text factual and ideological levels is in the focus of investigation. The purpose of the research undertaken is observation of the postmodern artistic unity transformational nature, represented by the projection of systemic/non-systemic writing/ /reading. Methodologically, the work is based on the receptive approach to identification of individual features of the text and its semantic correlates. The analysis allowed us to direct attention to intertextual variations, discursive imagery circumvolutions, presence of parallel and reverse vectors in the newly created texts. The concepts of the intertextual matrix situation put across are illustrated with the fictional examples (Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Yerofeyev). The article is intended (field of application) for the Russian and foreign researchers of the postmodern discourse, intertextual communication, literary forms dialogue, signimic level text transformed into a semantic construct. The analysis results posit that formal intertextuality character (citation scale) in the individual text concept expands to the phenomenon, bearing convergent characteristics, and the semantic field extension can be carried out with the help of the receptive approach.
Без четырех углов дом не строится — rosyjskie ludowe praktyki magiczne związane z gospodarstwem domowym
Authors: Rybarczyk-Dyjewska Joanna
Published: March 2020

The aim of the present work is a presentation of Russian folk magical practices connected with the running of a home. The first part of the article reflects on the significance of the home (it symbolism) in Eastern Slavonic culture as well as belief in the magical powers of the spirits protecting the homestead. The second part of the article analyses pragmatically the spells from the group домоведческие и хозяйственные заговоры [domestic and household spells]. The characterised material shows that the verbal magical interaction was based first and foremost on the use of an arousal strategy, being the categorical significance of the imperative mood.
Polska — Rosja: wzajemne wartościowanie (na podstawie analizy korpusowej)
Authors: Kiklewicz Aleksander
Published: March 2020

The author considers value and evaluation in the perspective of intercultural and anthropological linguistics. The value is treated as an element of axiological modality, which is specific in every language community. This particularly applies to the subjectively valued national groups and the stereotypes based on the values. Corpus analysis deals with exposing the values attributed to Poles by the Russians and, conversely, attributed to the Russians by the Poles. The author has taken into account a set of the facets (cognitive domains), such as politics, society, economy and commerce, language, art and other. The results of the expedition have been worked out in the quantitative and qualitative way.
Values in the contemporary Russian society
Authors: Andreev Andrei
Published: March 2020

The report highlights the results of sociological studies devoted to the value system of the Russian society. Value priorities of Russians are considered in dynamics and in comparison with other European countries. In the light of empirical data various stereotypes and autostereotypes of national identity are critically analyzed, including the widespread myths about Russians’ special inclination towards collectivism and the lack of civil society in Russia. On the basis of data obtained by an original method of psychosemantic sounding the deep structures of the collective psyche together with the specific social representations of Russians and the “world view” that the majority of them share are analyzed. Considerable attention is also paid to the subject-matters of national pride, and to the peculiarities of Russian historical consciousness. On the basis empirical data collected by means of sociological research the question of Russia’s place in the system of relations of East – West is posed and discussed.
Patriotism for sale or distribution of values in the era of marketing
Authors: Sładkiewicz Żanna
Published: March 2020

Patriotism is the foundation of the social system viability, one of the conditions for the proper functioning of the state. Patriotism is not transmitted through the genetic code, but formed in the society. Over the past two decades in Russia no ideological value has undergone such an evaluation as patriotism. After the collapse of the previous regime the governing structures have been trying to “resuscitate” patriotism as an integral element of the national mentality. Moreover, in the era of ubiquitous marketing, patriotism is not only instilled in the citizens, but also sold. Taking into account the socio-political context, enterprising people and public companies greatly expanded the range of “patriotic” products (T-shirts, hats, toys, dolls, puzzles, alphabet). The author analyzes the increasing distribution of patriotic ideas in Russia in the following areas: sports paraphernalia, souvenirs and home accessories.
Wartości w orędziach noworocznych polskich, rosyjskich i niemieckich przywódców w latach 2012-2015
Authors: Noińska Marta
Published: March 2020

The aim of the article is to analyze the axiological aspect of the New Year’s addresses of Polish, Russian and German leaders in the context of the sociopolitical situation in recent years. New Year’s messages are abundant with verbal and non-verbal signs that refer to addressee’s values instilled by years of education. The role of homeland, family and work usually underlined. The analyzed speeches evoke patriotic feelings as well as pride in one’s country and encourage cooperation for the good of the state. In the studied material, numerous expressions emphasizing the role of unity are to be found. Despite many similarities, the analyzed New Year’s addresses show some variation in the axiological layer, especially with regard to tolerance and Europeanism. Also, the selection of historical events mentioned by the leaders differs significantly in the studied speeches.
Educational and cultural connections of Vilno with educational establishments of Right-Bank Ukraine in the first quarter of the 19th century
Authors: Prishchepa Elena
Published: March 2020

The article analyzes educational and cultural connections of Vilno with educational establishments of Right-Bank Ukraine in the first quarter of the 19th century and includes the study of the external factors’ influence on the formation of town cultural environment in Ukrainian provinces within the Russian empire in the period when Lithuanian, Belorussian and Ukrainian territories of the former Rzeczpospolita (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) were the part of Vilno educational district. The article states that educational establishments controlled by Vilno University took the most important part in the processes of interaction and communication of towns’ population in that period. In this connection the article considers official transfers of teaching staff within Belorussian and Ukrainian territories. School teachers were mostly representatives of land-poor gentry and promoted both the expansion of school activity sphere and spiritual communication in towns and settlements of Right-Bank Ukraine provinces in general. The article also pays attention and stresses the movement of printed matter and certain cultural values from Vilno to the educational establishments of Right-Bank Ukraine. The article makes a conclusion that Polish culture dominated in towns’ cultural space.
The projects of governors on transformation of the Volost justice: about the creation of universal local court
Authors: Popp Ivan , Zinnatullina Zulhya
Published: March 2020

The article is devoted to the poorly studied problem of creating in 1860–1880’s. a single, local, elected local court in the Russian Empire, which could best respond to the needs of socio-economic development of the country. It was very important after the Emancipation Reform of 1861 in Russia. As the main source the authors use 30 projects of Governors prepared for the Special Commission, which worked on creating the project of local government. These projects can be divided into two groups and each of them had its advantages and disadvantages. In 1885 the Special Commission created the project of new court, but which was not realized.
Wyzwania reformy samorządowej i procesu decentralizacji na Ukrainie po 1991 roku
Authors: Czachor Rafał
Published: March 2020

Local self-government reforms were one of most important elements of political transformations in the post-communist countries. Currently Ukrainian authorities pay much attention to this problem, however all previous attempts of reforms were insufficient. The paper deals with theoretical aspects of local self-government models in a functional approach and discusses challenges that Ukraine will face during the reform. The author concludes that despite of positive tendencies of the reform, it brings serious threats to Ukrainian statehood.
Investment Level and Structure in the Region of Central and Eastern Europe and Barriers for Investment Growth Reported by Entrepreneurs in the Light of Findings of Own Survey Research
Authors: Oleksiuk Adam
Published: March 2020

The purpose of the paper was to conduct the author’s own survey research on barriers reported by entrepreneurs in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It should be pointed out that in this article the notion of Central and Eastern Europe was “limited” and covers 10 countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, and Croatia. As a result of the selection from among 1000 enterprises, a group of 600 was selected, including the survey covered 129 enterprises. The method of indirect survey was adopted (surveys were sent to enterprises by e-mail). The surveyed sample was selected in such a way that the surveyed enterprises were arranged evenly across particular countries and were characterized by different range and profile of activities. Service enterprises were a dominant group (96 enterprises, i.e. 74.4% of surveyed enterprises), others were production enterprises (33 enterprises, i.e. 25.6% of the surveyed enterprises). Among the surveyed enterprises, 98% were small and medium-sized enterprises. During the survey, eight investment barriers in particular countries of the region, were most often indicated by the surveyed enterprises. The conducted survey research on investment barriers for enterprises in the region of Central and Eastern Europe indicates serious problems associated with complexity and instability of the tax system and with excessive bureaucracy, high labour costs, volatility and low quality of law, and high taxes.
Precedent phenomena as the source of non-usual word-formation in the contemporary Russian mass media
Authors: Shchuklina Tatiana
Published: March 2020

The article deals with word-formation in the language of mass media as one of the phenomena in cultural linguistics. Studies basing on the cultural linguistics approach, which stipulates the language study in close conjunction with the culture of its native speakers, serve the theoretical foundation for the research work. Nonce words collected in the Russian mass media texts and formed by non-usual methods basing on the precedent phenomena have served the actual material of the research. Study of innovations interaction with the basic precedent units has indicated the cultural linguistic marking of derivation processes taking place in the language of mass media caused by economic, political, social and cultural situation in the country. Social attitudes and evaluativity of nonce words reflect the specific features of the linguistic world picture in the contemporary Russian social community. The derived words formed on the basis of the precedent phenomena enable to focus the readers’ attention to the urgent public issues, as well as to foreground their cultural knowledge.
Ethnic tourism and other similar forms of tourism in literature of Eastern Europe
Authors: Tomczewska-Popowycz Natalia
Published: March 2020

The purpose of the study is to explore the challenges of defining what is commonly known as “ethnic tourism”. Provided here a review, comparison, integration and systematization of the definitions of the phenomenon, its facets and characteristics. In particular, such variations as sentimental tourism, ethnic tourism, nostalgic tourism, diaspora tourism, genealogy tourism, are ancestral tourism subjected to a comparative analysis. The study is based on a systemic literature review and qualitative and frequency analysis of the definitions of the phenomenon. The literature search was not limited to publications by Ukrainian authors, but included Polish and Russian available relevant literature on the topic. Offered a new definition of ethnic tourism and other definition connected with ethnic aspects. The lack of clear definitions and differences in understanding significantly impeding the development of his area of tourism. This study gives rise to more function in operation of this type of tourism in theory and practice.
Starość kobiecego ciała jako metafora społeczno-polityczna w zapisie video Słoik zupy Serhija Bratkowa
Authors: Zambrzycka Marta
Published: March 2020

The subject of this article is the image of an old female body in the video called Jar of soup (2004), created by a contemporary Ukrainian artist Serhiy Bratkov. It is a short video showing an old, lonely woman eating a beetroot soup from the jar. In this work, old age was presented primarily in the bodily dimension. Using the image of an old body, which is marginalized in official visuality, the artist raises a number of issues important both for Ukrainian society and for the overall reflection on the problem of old age and women aging. I see the work of Bratkov primarily in the Ukrainian context: as a bitter reflection on the attitude to old age in the post-Soviet society and as a comment to the symbols of femininity established in the Ukrainian culture, closely related to national ideas.
Rozwój biografistyki i regionalistyki powstania styczniowego na Białorusi w historiografii polskiej okresu międzywojennego
Authors: Matveichyk Dzmitry
Published: March 2020

The scope of the study is historiography development in interwar Poland (1918– 1939), in particular, the accumulation of facts and the development of value judgments about the 1863–1864 Uprising on the territory of Belarus. The analysis was conducted on the basis of the Biography Studies and Regional Studies of the Uprising, published during the mentioned period (books, scientific and popular articles in magazines and newspapers). It shows that the area of these studies was actively developing during the interwar twenty years, which resulted in the creation of about 70 publications. However, the Polish historians at that time were not able to overcome political bias, introduce a large number of documentary sources and generally to turn to large-scale integrated scientific researches.
Polityka narodowościowa i kolonialna Związku Radzieckiego w ujęciu historiografii amerykańskiej
Authors: Puchalski Piotr
Published: March 2020

Changes in American interpretations of Soviet nationality policies have reflected broader shifts in U.S. historiography of the former U.S.S.R. Notwithstanding pro-Soviet apologists, U.S. scholars initially viewed the Soviet expansion into neighboring non-Russian lands as forced and integral to the emergence of the Soviet “party-state.” In effect, the Soviet rule, in particular outside of ethnic Russia, was perceived as brutal and often colonial in nature. The fall of the Soviet empire and resulting political relaxation, however, presented a turning point for the field, ushering in the so-called “archival revolution.” Consequently, the topic literature increasingly interpreted Soviet policies no longer as necessarily colonial but instead responsible for generating modern nationalities, or at least national categories. At the same time, the Soviet-era ideological divisions among U.S. scholars have not completely disappeared, while the more recent postmodern tendencies have affected the field in both positive and negative ways. Theoretical approaches that encourage comparative analysis and the deconstruction of analytical categories are used productively to maintain critical distance but also carry the risk of moral relativism.
Oral history w Rosji i Polsce – próba porównania
Authors: Lewandowska Izabela , Giżejewski Gracjan
Published: March 2020

The aim of this article is to note the similarities and differences in the oral history of Russia and Poland. It is based on academic literature and the public presence of oral history in both countries, and analyzes the development of research on oral history as well as shows the presence of this method in academic studies. It also presents the non-governmental activities of social organizations. The comparative studies arrive at the conclusion that oral history centers in Russia are developing vigorously on the institutional (academic) level, whereas in Poland more on the council and civic levels. It is important to establish a collaboration between researchers from both countries in order to improve the method and run common projects on that matter.
Problems of revival and development of animal husbandry in Ukraine
Authors: Lavruk Alexandr , Lavruk Vitalii
Published: March 2020

The problem of revival is considered and the current state of development of animal husbandry in Ukraine is investigated. The research is based on the use of state information resources and generalization of scientific developments of domestic and foreign scientists. The changes in the number of farm animals, the volume of livestock production and improving its economic efficiency are analyzed. It is established that the process of revival should be accompanied by the effective use of own financial resources and ensure the sustainable development of all sub-sectors of animal husbandry. To ensure the implementation of effective measures for the revival, stabilization and development of animal husbandry is possible through the effective use of all types of production resources, in particular the genetic potential of animals, the introduction of innovative technologies and economic levers that contribute to the profitability of animal husbandry. The main factors that directly affect the potential of livestock and poultry and increase its productivity are identified. The necessity of creation of the state special fund for revival and support of animal husbandry is specified and the directions of increase of its effective development are offered.
Polska i Polacy we współczesnym ukraińskim etnicznym obrazie świata Część I: Ogląd struktury kulturowo-cywilizacyjnej
Authors: Leszczak Oleg
Published: March 2020

The paper presents the results of an analysis of cultural-civilizational structure of Ukrainian ethnic picture of world and the differentiation of the images of Poland and the Poles. The main trends in Polish-Ukrainian relations, which arouse interest in the Ukrainian media discourse, were distinguished. The author conducts a typology of main statements by Ukrainian politicians, journalists and Internet users on the principle of adherence to various kinds of civilizational values, highlighting the following behavioral patterns in the Ukrainian ethno-cultural worldview: Tribalism, Turanism, Byzantinism and Latinism (Europeanism).
Polaniarstwo jako istotny wyróżnik w badaniach nad typologią krajobrazów pasterskich Karpat Zachodnich
Authors: Łach Janusz , Bojko Igor
Published: March 2020

The article is an attempt to use the method of landmark and determinants in research on the typology of pastoral and agricultural landscapes in the area of the Beskids range the Western Carpathians. The paper analyzes the structure and form of economic activities in the mid-forest clearing, allowing to define mountain landscapes. The Beskids landscape due to the varied morphology, terrain cover and the Vlachs cultural element is considered to be particularly valuable in terms of landscape. The definition of the natural and cultural aspects of the Beskids landscapes made it possible to separate, in the type of rural landscapes – the pastoral subtype, the pastoral and agricultural landscape called as the agro-shepherd.
Soul in the Belarusian folk culture
Authors: Kozhinova Alla
Published: March 2020

The article deals with the representation of the soul in mythological consciousness of the Belarusians, which is reflected in the folk culture texts. Research is based on the ethnolinguistic point of view. The ethnographic materials of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries, modern studies of Belarusian folk culture and Belarusian dialect dictionaries are the factual basis of the research. The author proves that all pagan ideas in these texts are determined by the general paradigm of the Belarusian traditional culture, in which Christian and pagan principles coexist without an obvious priority.
Autonomadism of postmodern in Russian megacities
Authors: Shlyakov Shlyakov
Published: March 2020

Nomadism in postmodern stands as a principle of diffusion, allocation of bodies on social plane, implying a disruption with any fixedness: with Homeland, Home, family, identity. This principle is based on the constant movement, changes of the body. The following strategy forms a special chronotopy: space is constructed rhysomically (astructurally, acentered with equality of all possible directions of movement), and time is read a a cyclic present or as deplyment of past-future (Chronos and Eon in the concept of G. Deleuze). With transition to postmodern not only a man became a carrier of nomadic features, but also the bodies of an objective world became nomadic. Miniaturization of objects , which is accompanied by their intellectual filling, allows them to not only dive in an act of movement, but also incite movememnt and form space for realization of their own movement. A car, which in modern performed the function of subjugation of space with speed, in postmodern changed its functionality to comfort, and seriously influenced the formation of the map of the city. In this article a phenomenon of autonomadism is explored (embodiment of nomadism as a social strategy of mobility) through automobilization of society. Theoretical basis of the study is nomadological project of Deleuze – Guattari and concept of paradygm of mobility J. Urry. Among indicators which allow to talk about autonomadism are chronotopical metamorphosis in the reading of ambient landscape of motorists and the loss of identity, which led to the occurence of a hybrid “driver – car”. The following study showed that in postmodern Russian cities – metropolis a quiescence is seen as deviation and is socially excluded, spaces of quiet ar colonized by cars, sedentary places are exiled from the city or demand high economical expenses, which makes the settled way of life unprofitable.
On the Reception of the French Version of Cupid and Psyche Plot in the Poem of Ippolit Bogdanovich “Dushenka” (1783)
Authors: Kotaridi Yuliya
Published: March 2020

The subject of this paper is the transformation of poetics of Cupid and Psyche plot in its national and historical modifications in French and Russian literatures of the 17th–18th centuries. The methodology of the analysis is based on mythological studies (K. Levi-Strauss, J. Frazer, A. N. Veselovsky, A. F. Losev) and genre studies (M. M. Bakhtin, S. S. Averintsev, E. M. Meletinsky, etc.). This paper examines the genre of J. de La Fontaine’s and his follower Ippolit Bogdanovich’s versions of the plot and the interrelation of various literary styles in their poetics. The genre of the French and Russian versions absorbs the elements of Classicism, Baroque and Rococo which are combined in syncretic unity. The transformation of the tale of Cupid and Psyche leads La Fontaine and Bogdanovich to the creation of a hybrid genre in which the initial version of the plot is exposed to travesty and revaluation.
Autonomy of Picture: The Place of Author’s Drawings in Modern Communication of Scientific-Popular Theme
Authors: Simakova Svetlana , Panyukova Svetlana , Topchii Irina
Published: March 2020

This study examines the phenomenon of social media segments functioning, focused on the presence of high-quality author’s visual content in publications. It is the originality of the visual accompaniment of posts that becomes the basis for the popularity of the resource. It sets such a trend as the autonomous power of images in communication and giving a chance for the development of “pictorial” information exchange. The study analyzed the publication of the Russian popular science community “Educator” (“Ovrazovach”) on the social network “VK”. The main findings of the study is: 1) there is an autonomy of images and their independency in the process of creating interest to resource for audience; 2) the analysis of comments reveals a reduction of the content side of the popular science public; 3) user comments show the preservation of a high percentage of text messages, but this comments are related the picture, not on a scientific event. The authors believe that the phenomenon of autonomization of original images requires a detailed analysis on a wider number of examples.
Interferencja rosyjsko-cerkiewnosłowiańska w tekstach staroobrzędowych z XIX–XX wieku
Authors: Pociechina Helena
Published: March 2020

Until today, the Russian of Old Believers’ prints and manuscripts has not been subject to research in linguistic studies. The written language under investigation here, as seen in hand-written notebooks or books printed illegally, is based on the urban variant of the Russian colloquial language. Old Church Slavonic elements are prominent in the analyzed texts, which might be the result of teaching the skills of reading and writing from Old Church Slavonic primers (azbukas) and from the Church Slavonic Psalter and Horologion (Book of Hours). This feature of the analyzed texts refers not only to paraliturgical scripts (used to pray at home) but also to polemic and didactic writings, as well as texts aimed to be read aloud or sung, such as spiritual poems. Fragments of texts in Old Church Slavonic are mainly quotations or reminiscences from the Holy Scripture and writings of the Church Fathers, taken from early polemic texts. The fragments also refer to the everyday reality of the Orthodox Church life. The paper presents analyses of texts such as: “Wiecznaja Pravda” by Avvakum Komissarov, Sinodik, Skitskoje pokajanije, Czin ispowiedaniju, as well as calendars and spiritual guides.