Competitiveness of the region: content, factors, policies
The article describes a framework conception of regional competitiveness. The notion of regional competitiveness as well as approaches to the classification of competitiveness factors are considered in detail. The author elaborates a set of indicators of regional competitiveness. The article also dis-cusses three groups of factors which can influence the competitiveness of any region.
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Производство, стоимость информации и экономическая организация // Вехи экономической...
Regional politics of memory during the commemoration of the anniversaries of historical events in the Republic of Ingushetia
... 100th anniversary of the establishment of Ingush statehood as case studies. Employing an actor-oriented approach based on the works of M. Bernhard and J. Kubik, along with discourse analysis, the author examines how various actors shape and promote competing narratives of the past. The study demonstrates that the narrative of the 1944 deportation consolidates Ingush society, enabling regional actors to sustain a “victimhood” discourse and to preserve the memory of trauma through discursive ...
Constitutional crisis in the Republic of Estonia in 1932—1934
... The process of drafting amendments in each case is analyzed, the nature of the proposed changes is determined, and the consequences of each referendum are assessed. According to the authors, the amendments submitted in the first referendum were more competent and well-considered than those presented in the third referendum, and the failure of the original amendments resulted from the active propaganda of certain actors rather than from the nature of the amendments themselves. Moreover, the article ...
Fostering of traditional family values: laws, facts, suggestions
... foundations of the family. The high public demand for family values observed in Saint Petersburg provides a favorable environment for implementing the proposed initiatives, which are expected to increase the number of stable family unions, improve parental competence, and strengthen intergenerational ties.
family, values, traditions, politics, fertility
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International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC): Potential, challenges, and prospects amid global shifts
The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC). Despite significant growth in freight traffic in recent years and its strategic importance in the context of the global transformation of logistics, the INSTC remains inferior to traditional routes and realizes only a small portion of its potential. The development of the corridor is constrained by infrastructure limitations (differences in railway gauge, seasonality of navigation, and low capacity...
Historical policy and memorial culture of modern Romanian society
The aim of the research is to analyze the contemporary politics of memory in Romania in the early 2020s. The author examines the role and place of intellectual communities as key spaces of memory genesis and the functioning of memorial culture and collective historical memory in the contemporary social and political thought of Romania. The novelty of the study lies in exploring the current stage in the development of the historical politics of Romanian society in the context of an objective deficit...
Vladivostok commercial seaport in the first half of the 1920s: export competition and interdepartmental contradictions
The article is devoted to the problem of the development of the Vladivostok commercial port in the early 1920s. The first quarter of the XX century was a time of severe trials for the whole of Russia in general and the Far East in particular: World War I; Civil War; foreign intervention. All this time, the Vladivostok Harbor was in fact the only source of external contacts of the remote region. Being the largest Russian port on the Pacific Ocean, Vladivostok has historically been a kind of center...
The attitude of teachers of additional music education to inclusive education of blind and visually impaired children
... development of criteria for admission of children with disabilities to it. A significant part of experts express their concerns regarding the provision of inclusive practice due to the lack of experience working with special children and the necessary competencies. The community of teachers of additional education request some adapted methodological support for teaching performing arts to children with different types of disabilities, taking into account both the special educational needs of such children ...
Regional railway transport system of the Transcaucasia: passenger direction of work
The aim of the article is to characterize the peculiarities of passenger transportation within the regional railway transport system of the Transaucasus. The research relies on the statistics of railway passenger transport and published schedules on the railway networks of the countries in the region. It is demonstrated that in the post-Soviet period, passenger rail transport has declined, and its potential is underutilized: the volume of transportation is minimal, the movement intensity is low...
Russia and China in the international digital domain
Russia and China are the countries with an active digital agenda and a high level of Internetization of the population. The modern foreign policy vector of the governments of the two countries is aimed at strengthening cooperation, including the digital sphere. The article provides an assessment of the cross-country digital divide with an emphasis on the analysis of the dynamics in the development of information and communication infrastructure and the use of the Internet by the population in 2010—2021...
Intangible Factors of U. S. Influence in Latin American and Caribbean Countries in the Entertainment Industry Context
The article examines the intangible factors of U.S. influence in Latin American and Caribbean countries and the U.S. ability to utilize them in the context of the entertainment industry at the present stage. The aim of the study is to determine the role and assess these factors, considered through examples of cinema, streaming service content, and the video game industry. The author adopted a constructivist approach and employed the method of statistical data analysis from open sources. A comparative...
Opportunities for Using Data on the Perpetrator in Human Trafficking Investigations
... often perpetrated by organized transnational criminal groups (organizations). Consequently, law enforcement agencies face certain challenges in detecting, investigating, and preventing these crimes. Addressing these issues can be facilitated by the competent use of criminalistic characteristics by law enforcement personnel. The aim of this study is to analyze the practice of investigating criminal cases of human trafficking and to examine the element of the criminalistic characteristics of human ...
Corporate training of software testers as a pedagogical problem
... development of both professional skills and personal qualities in software testers. A critical review of the literature, including domestic and foreign sources, is conducted to formulate an original concept for the formation and development of professional competencies in software testers within the context of corporate education. The authors pay particular attention to the systematic and efficient organization of the educational process, taking into account the specificities and strategic directions of ...
Unlocking the potential of the educational process at university colleges for cultivating a culture of life safety
... University college. It analyses the concepts of ‘potential’, ‘society’, and ‘potential of the educational process’. A model of educational potential is proposed and the requirements of the federal state standard for general and professional competencies within the disciplines Fundamentals of Life Safety and Life Safety in students of technology is examined. The study uncovers and examines forms of educational and extracurricular activities, delineates the principles behind the structure ...
Teacher training for the formation of functional literacy in primary school: the problem of individualisation
... aims to examine the problem of individualisation in response to the need to individualise primary school pupils’ education while developing functional literacy and to assess the feasibility of preparing future teachers to master relevant professional competencies. Methodologically, the study draws on the competence-based approach, the findings of Volf Merlin and his associates regarding integral individuality as intra- and meta-individuality and the ideas developed under the supervision of Oleg Grebenyuk ...
Category of politeness: Russian imperative speech clichés in dialogue
This study identifies and characterises a class of lexical units — imperative speech clichés, exemplified by expressions such as krepis'! [hold on!], prekrati! [stop it!] or ne lez' [back off!]. It defines the concept of imperative speech clichés and investigates the role of pragmaticisation in their formation. The general properties of imperative clichés are described: most are either never employed with the negative particle ne [not] or are utilised exclusively with this particle. In speech communication...
‘Hallberd of Balderdash’ or an attempt at decoding Alexei Chicherin’s construemes (dedicated to the 100th anniversary of their publication)
... visual-graphic, acoustic (phonological symbols) and musical (notes) levels. The article also examines Chicherin's proven techniques: the appropriation of the sacred dimension and self-presentation as an actor possessing genuine knowledge and capable of competing alone with the entire literary environment.
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The alien and (or) one’s own: modern hidden calques (based on the collocation Kak po Mne [as for me])
... marker of personal opinion po mne, which has a long history of use. A corpus study and contextual semantic and comparative analysis led the authors to conclude that the collocation kak po mne is a calque of the Anglo-Americanism 'as for me / as to me', competing with another form of hidden borrowing — po mne [for me / to me]. Coexisting in the recipient language with the native expression po mne, the hidden semantic calque appears as its structural-semantic variant with an intensifier.
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Typology of Russian regions by the development of the regional gastronomic brand
The article presents an assessment of the sustainability and variability of regional gastronomic brands in Russia. Based on the analysis of the regions’ participation in the national competition “Flavors of Russia” in 2020—2021, gastronomic events held in Russian regions in 2024 and 2025, as well as information on the gastronomic characteristics of Russian regions provided on the TasteAtlas platform, a typology of regional gastronomic brands has been developed. This typology takes into account...
“When life was in the home circle” in the conditional reasonings of Fregean mad-humans and logical penalists
... tools for modeling argumentation and reasoning. Based on modern studies of conditional reasoning, using the example of Onegin’s conditional reasoning from a letter to Tatyana, we show that there are different ways of reconstructing it, including competing ones. In the spirit of Frege, we construct the concept of logical penalists - non-ideal thinkers of our “home circle”, who, due to their limited intellectual resources, are sometimes content with not the best results in reasoning and ...
Prerequisites for the formation of Neostructuralism as an integral linguistic paradigm
This work is the result of methodological reflection related to the comprehension of more than two hundred years of experience accumulated since the secularization of linguistics, and the formation of a reasonable forecast regarding the near and medium-term development of linguistic science. The development of linguistics is determined by the dynamics of paradigms. In understanding the latter term, the author follows the tradition laid down by Kuhn, taking into account the nuances of its transfer...
Functional specificity of explanation in expository texts: a pragmatic model and elaboration principles
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Universal competencies focusing on the future profession: experience in developing the course “Basics of Professional Communication” for students of translation education programs
Universal competencies are essential for the successful employment of graduates from all educational programs. Employers note their importance for launching a successful career while simultaneously emphasizing the low level of development of universal competencies ...
Universal digital competences: higher education personalisation for digital economy
The article is devoted to the analysis of the compliance of Russian educational standards with the modern requirements of the data-driven digital economy. Approaches to the formation of students’ universal digital competencies are examined. The main objective of the study is to substantiate the structure of universal digital competencies adapted to the conditions of distance learning and suitable for building personalized educational trajectories, on the one hand,...
Means of explicating the strategy of manipulating information in american electoral discourse
The article examines the use of linguistic manipulation techniques by Joe Biden and Donald Trump during the political debates of the 2020 U.S. presidential election campaign. The strategy of manipulative influence on the mass audience through presenting information in a manner advantageous to the speaker is understood as one of the key strategies of agonistic discourse, which implies a competitive nature of communication. Five linguistic tactics used to implement this strategy are identified and...
“Behind my back, between one corner kick and the next, they had gassed three thousand people”: football in the Auschwitz concentration camp
The article analyzes the phenomenon of football in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945. Auschwitz was by no means the only concentration camp where football matches and even entire tournaments were held—other camps such as Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, and Gross-Rosen had their own championships. The duality of the concept of "sport" as interpreted by the camp administration is examined: for the Nazis, sport included not only competitions but also physical abuse...
The free trade zone mechanism in the EAEU international activities
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) plays a significant role in shaping a new global order based on the principles of innovative development, transregionalism, integration, and international cooperation. In the context of global regionalization and intensifying international competition, the EAEU represents a unique model of economic integration that unites countries with diverse internal systems in pursuit of common strategic goals—both economic and political. Unlike traditional models of economic...
Comparative analysis of the program guidelines of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Party “Communists of Russia” in terms of ideological differences
The article presents a comparative analysis of the policy documents of two contemporary communist parties in Russia — the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and the Communists of Russia. The study aims to identify the fundamental ideological differences between these political actors in their understanding of the theoretical foundations and practical tasks of the communist movement at the present stage. The methodological basis of the research consists of a comparative analysis of the...
A part outside the whole? (To Anton Zimmerling's article “Really: syntactics without semiotics?”)
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“Noise” as a key to semiosis: the brain and culture (40 years later)
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Poetics of the deconstruction of Reinhard Jirgl’s text: A translational perspective
... connections between the performative and narrative characteristics of utterances.
New literary contexts and the alarmist forms of narrative peculiar to Jirgl’s writing urge the translator to develop specific professional skills and philological competencies.
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On the less obvious manifestations of the poetic function: a translator’s view
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Textonics: an introduction to electronic philology
... integrate or disperse the initial, analysed text via quotes or hyperlinks. Thus, coherent, linear reading and writing give way to the paradigmatic, cross-cutting approach. With the proliferation of automatic translation programs and the multilingual competence of readers, the interaction among languages also changes: translation as a search for equivalence gives way to an interlation, a constructive metamorphosis that plays on the inequivalence of different languages.
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‘What can be described can happen too…’: describing text semantics as a model structure of transworld relationships
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Historical realia in teaching Russian as a foreign language
... and study the axiology of modern native speakers. The analysis of non-equivalent, background and connotative lexis in the course of language acquisition stimulates reflection on extralinguistic (historical) information and thus contributes to cultural competences.
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On the problem of cultural reference of proverbs (the Russian proverbs with images of clothing)
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