Moral component of identity and psychological well-being
... mental health, and the level of moral development, which is reflected in prosocial behavior. However, both in international and domestic scientific circles, there is a lack of research dedicated to the relationship between the substantive components of identity and the integrity of identity structure with psychological well-being and mental health. The aim of the study is to test the hypothesis regarding the relationship of psychological well-being with moral identity and the identity stability ...
Procedural and forensic ensuring the reliability of identification results
The article discusses the most significant issues of legal regulation and forensic support for the identification of living persons carried out within the framework of pre-trial proceedings. Empirical materials illustrating typical mistakes made during this procedure are provided. The authors also emphasize the necessity of working with the recognized individuals during the identification process. Examples of procedural and criminalistic errors in presenting individuals for identification in conditions...
The state-civil identity among the student youth of the Russian Federation: theoretical and applied aspects
The article touches upon the issue of state-civil identity of student youth. Theoretical analysis of the provisions of social constructivism made the author focus on the fact that state-civil identity is an element of the value component in the structure of the political consciousness ethnopolitical ...
Clusters in the institutional perspective: on the theory and methodology of local socioeconomic development
This article addresses the problem of definition and identification of clusters as localized mesoeconomic systems with fuzzy boundaries that stimulate the development of these systems. The author analyses the influence of the inductive approach to the formation of cluster theory and juxtaposes different typologies of clusters and other types of localized economic systems. The article offers an overview of the existing methodological approaches to the problem of cluster identification and emphasises...
Ethnic identity of students as a determinant of their understanding of other cultural groups
The article highlights the problem of interaction between representatives of different cultures, which is influenced by their social representations and ethnic identity. The aim of the work was to analyze the content of students' social ideas about members of other cultures in the context of ethnic identity. In this paper, the authors rely on the theory of social representations and the concept of ethnic identity....
The identity and collective memory of Kaliningraders in recent Polish studies
This paper is a review of recent Polish studies on identity and collective memory in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. Polish authors have analysed the development of Kaliningrad regional identity – a process closely related to collective memory changes and politics of memory. Scholars ...
Russia and the European Union: an elusive quest for common values?
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The ethno-political discourse of regional identity in former Yugoslavia: The Bosnian syndrome
This article analyses the features of national identity in modern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The limitrophe ethnocentrism dominant in the regions of former Yugoslavia contributes to increased tension. It is assumed that all political problems of Bosnia and Herzegovina relate to the lack of a common identity,...
Identity in the conditions of globalisation and regionalisation
This article considers the influence of globalisation processes on the development of the crisis of historical and ethnocultural identity and describes the factors affecting the ethnocultural identity transformation. The author analyses how globalisation results in both the blurring of ethnocultural identity and the intensification of regionalisation processes.
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Maintaining ethnocultural identity and the problems of education: Russians in Lithuania
This article focuses on the problems of preserving ethnocultural identity in the conditions of globalisation and blurring of cultural distinctions, first of all, the possible loss of ethnocultural identity of Russian-speaking population in the post-Soviet space of the Republic of Lithuania. A specialised survey is ...
The Use of Big Data in the appointment and conduct of forensic environmental examinations
The article explores contemporary issues and questions related to the application of forensic environmental expertise within the framework of preliminary investigations, and evaluates its role in law enforcement activities. The research formulated and proposed the main tasks of forensic environmental expertise at the current stage, highlighted its features, and identified problems associated with the imperfection of the current methodological support for this type of forensic examination. Based on...
Poetic figurativeness as a foreign culture cognition instrument
The article analyzes the metaphorical conceptualization of intercultural space in French and Russian lyric poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries. The research goal is to determine the cognitive potential of poetic imagery as a means of exploring the space of another culture. Based on classical (S. A. Askoldov, A. J. Greimas) and contemporary (V. V. Feschenko, M. Freeman) linguistic, philosophic, and semiotic approaches, the cognitive status of poetic imagery is substantiated. The definition of intercultural...
Molecular genetic identification of bacterial isolates — xylanase producers
Microbial xylanases are widely used across various industries, making the search for new microorganisms capable of producing these enzymes a highly relevant task. A source for isolating strains with xylanolytic activity is plant-based materials rich in hemicelluloses, such as lignocellulosic biomass. In the Kaliningrad region, such materials include the meal of industrial hemp seeds (Cannabis sativa), seed hulls and seeds of white lupine (Lupinus albus), unroasted soybean hulls, roasted soybean...
Shpet, Humboldt, Kant: Forms, Concepts, Schemes. Terms and Ideas
... Humboldt as suggestion. The author also considers Shpet’s critique of subjectivism, which robs subjectivism of creativity and confines it to the capacity to convey what has been understood and to err. Finally, Shpet’s methodology (the question of identity and difference) and the role of terminology in his own works is considered. The positing of identity as the starting point of method accords with Shpet’s conviction that terms have meaning and explanatory power. Contrary to Shpet, it is difference ...
Hybrid genre in persuasive communication
... discusses the notion of hybridity as related to text genres. The study pinpoints a particular kind of hybrid genres referring to texts that mix and combine in their structure the features of two or more different genres but maintain their primary genre identity. This kind of genre mixing results inter alia in an advertisement that is shaped as a chat in internet, private talk or recipe but sustains its genre status as an advertisement. The analysis is based on advertisement texts functioning as hybrid ...
Borrowing inter-cultural concepts in the context of mass media and social networks synthesis
The article considers specifications of word-concept borrowing in the discourse field “Environmental friendliness”. On the examples from German-language media the article describes the processes of new words’ access to the German language and the nature of their functioning in the media discourse 2019— 2022. The relevance of this study is to identify and describe, through contextual discourse analysis, new global concepts that function in a synthetic communication space with the view to exchanging...
Poetry as a space for cognitive research: Czesław Miłosz and Howard Nemerov
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Social identity in the conditions of cultural diversity: A search or imposition? (the case of the Kaliningrad region)
This article discusses the development of social identity in the modern Russian society in the case of the Kaliningrad region. Based on an analysis of the regional public discourse and the data of surveys and case studies, the author considers the process of promoting and imposing a model of normativity ...
The transformation of ethnic identity in the condition of post-Soviet development of the independent states
This article considers the problem of ethnic identity as a polymodal one and analyses certain social, historical, and psychological aspects of its context. Language is one of the major differentiating features in terms of ethnicity. In some historical situations, ethnic identity is determined by ...
The Kaliningrad region as a site of memory for the Russians
The author of the article analyzes the shaping of the Russian identity of the region’s inhabitants on particular examples and personal impressions and experience. A common term “the site of memory” applied to the Kaliningrad region, makes it possible to speak of a strong regional, or Kaliningrad, component ...
On the essence of forensic identification
In this article, we discuss the importance of forensic identification as a source of tactical information. Although the theory of identification is a mature and developed element of forensic science, some authors grossly misinterpret its essence and incorrectly classify its objects. When embedded in research publications and textbooks, these misconceptions translate into university graduates and specialists having a distorted idea of this phenomenon. In this connection, we give a more complete...
Fetal behavior and the prediction of neuropsychiatric development
Over the past 30 years, ultrasound examination during pregnancy revealed a surprising variety of fetus movements. It has been proven that the fetal activity begins at the end of the embryo period, week 7—9 of gestation. The analysis of the movemental patterns of the fetus has led to the hypothesis that these patterns directly reflect the development and maturation of the central nervous system. The 2D-4D ultrasound makes it possible to identify measurable parameters for assessing the neurological...
Political reconsideration of the Soviet past: attitudes and actions of the Lithuanian elites
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The influence of the border position of the Pskov region on the socio-cultural values of the population
This article presents the results of a sociological research on national and supranational (civilizational) identity of the Pskov region population conducted in 1999—2010. The Pskov region is the only European region of Russia that shares borders with three states, two of which are members of the EU. The author defines the areas of the neighbouring countries' ...
The concept of translation strategy viewed in the light of needstailored theory of translation: a proposal of definition and typology
The paper examines the concept of translation strategy and aims to develop a typology of its possible forms from the perspective of a needs-tailored approach to translation. It begins with a brief review of positions on translation strategy articulated by Russian and international translation scholars, demonstrating the lack of consensus in the field. The study then subjects the theory of translation strategies developed within the communicative-functional approach, conceptually close to the...
Political and digital technologies for forming macro-identity in the post-Soviet space (on the example of the Baltic states)
... technology of civilizational reorientation, involving a break with historical and cultural ties to Greater Russia and the formation of new connections with the Western world. The article proposes a theoretical integration of the concepts of macro-political identity (O. Yu. Malinova), hybrid identity, and the civilizational paradigm approach. The methodological framework of the study is based on a constructionist approach to the phenomenon of identity. The analysis of policies for transforming historical ...
Approaches to definition and allocation of depressive territories: Economic and geographical aspect
The study of the spatial development of territories is one of the pressing tasks of social geography of the XX—XXI centuries. In the era of modern globalization and transformation of the world economy, strengthening of agglomeration effects and concentration of economic forces and population in a small number of centers, the problem of development, recovery and revival of depressed and peripheral territories is of particular importance. The purpose of this article is to conduct a critical analysis...
Soil resources and soil cover structure Kemerovo region — Kuzbass
The Kemerovo Region is situated in the Central deciduous-forest, forest-steppe, and steppe soil-bioclimate regions of the Subboreal temperate soil-bioclimate zone. The researched territory of the Kazachensky motor dumping site, which is within the Taldinsky coal mine, according to the soil-geographic zoning data, is located at the intersection of two soil-geographic districts — Kemerovo-Prokopyevsky and Kuznetsko-Alatausky. On the studied technogenic landscape, identified areas are characterized...