Motifs of “The Ladder” by St. John Climacus in the spiritual letters of St. Ambrose of Optina to the laity
... struggle with the passions on the path toward the acquisition of virtues. Quotations from “The Ladder” cited in the letters consistently correspond to the elder’s pastoral task: to identify a specific passion afflicting the addressee and to indicate the path toward liberation from it. The key motif is the struggle with pride, which, according to both St. Ambrose and St. John Climacus, can be overcome only through meekness. The constellation of motifs also corresponds to traditional hagiographic ...
Slovo.ru turns fifteen
... By surveying its thematic issues, the review systematises the journal's transdisciplinary orientation and demonstrates its alignment with contemporary paradigms in the humanities. The review also charts the dynamics of the journal’s scientometric indicators, which confirm its firmly established position among leading humanities periodicals.
linguistics, literary studies, scholarly periodicals, scientometrics, transdisciplinary research
6-12
10.5922/2225-5346-2026-1-1
EU de facto membership: an attempt to adapt to current challenges
... the significance of the energy component in economic interaction, independent initiatives by third countries to incorporate the acquis communautaire into domestic legislation, the importance of a shared cultural identity, as well as quantitative indicators—namely, the orientation of more than 50 % of a country’s foreign trade toward the European market and the implementation of over 50 % of EU legal acts into national law. A comparative analysis is provided of Switzerland as a representative ...
Emperor Nicholas II during the First World War through the eyes of Russian monarchical circles
... of Nicholas II to the throne, as well as letters from representatives of various social strata addressed to the former tsar, demonstrates that even after his abdication, a sacralized perception of his figure persisted in society. The cited examples indicate the presence of loyalist sentiments within monarchist circles during the First World War, which did not significantly change under the influence of external or internal political circumstances. In this regard, this model of perception of the ...
Development of personnel at the Kaliningrad Rail-Car Manufacturing Plant in 1946—1951: quantitative and qualitative dynamics
... archival materials (including statistical reports and personnel orders) as well as publications in the local periodical press, allowed for a comparative analysis of the data and the identification of discrepancies between them. The main findings indicate that, despite the rapid growth in staff numbers and production volumes, the plant constantly faced a severe shortage of skilled workers, high staff turnover, and low effectiveness of the training system through factory schools. The labor of ...
First data on the Macrozoobenthos of the Curonian Lagoon (Baltic Sea) during ice cover
... dominated by the bivalve Dreissena polymorpha was observed, whereas in the area influenced by the Deima River, where the same biocenosis existed for decades, only its derivative was present—without living individuals, but with well-preserved shells — indicating their relatively recent mortality. It was shown that the environmental conditions during both winter seasons were favorable for hydrobionts in terms of temperature and dissolved oxygen content; in this context, active growth of the potentially ...
Approaches to definition and allocation of depressive territories: Economic and geographical aspect
... “polarization” are analyzed. The author, based on domestic and foreign works, as well as personal approach, identified six main approaches to identifying depressed territories: production, social, financial, demographic, environmental, subjective. A system of indicators characterizing a depressed territory in accordance with the identified approaches is proposed. Measures to overcome socio-economic depression and possible ways of improving and reviving these territories are noted.
depressed territory,...
Basic principles of formation of recreational nature management in the Pskov region
... agricultural development, vegetation characteristics, and the presence of protected natural areas. The results, partially reflected in the spatial zoning documents of the Pskov Region, made it possible to identify zones and districts according to the indicator of “suitability for recreational nature management.” The article emphasizes the need to enhance the efficiency of the use of recreational lands.
methodical approach, evaluation criteria, recreational environmental management, recreational ...
Dynamics of distribution of Karelians in regions of Russia from 1959 to 2021
... intervals — from 1959 to 1989 and from 1989 to 2021. To do this, firstly, based on the results of the censuses, the share of each region of the country in the total number of Karelians living in Russia was calculated. Secondly, the dynamics of this indicator in the inter-census periods was calculated and mapped for all regions of the country. Between the 1959 and 1989 censuses, almost all regions of Russia saw an increase in the concentration of Karelians, which indicated the process of their migratory ...
Right-wing radical ideologems in the politics of South American states
... "ideologeme" through the concept of the morphology of ideologies by M. Frieden and the theories of "de-ideologization" by D. Bell and S. Lipset. Methods of regional and binary synchronous comparison made it possible to establish indicators of the influence of right-wing radical ideologemes, as well as to record similarities and the most significant differences in individual country cases. An analysis of the structure and state of the party systems of the states of the region ...
Correlation between the concepts of institution and sub-institution in criminal law
... verification in terms of analysis of the correlation between these concepts. It is especially urgent due to the fact that the term sub-institution itself is not used by the official doctrine and law enforcement. Such analysis allows us to clarify the indicators of sub-institution of law and the grounds for its correlation with the institute of criminal law. Such approach encourages the author to identify the characteristics of criminal law sub-institution as an element of structure of criminal law ...
Revisiting harm caused by illegal entrepreneurial activities
... intentions, unfortunately, not only gave rise to such a phenomenon as illegal entrepreneurship, which is a deterrent to the further development of market relations, but also promoted the growth of economic crimes. The analysis of law enforcement practice indicates that the preliminary investigation bodies are experiencing significant difficulties in determining the amount of damage caused by the crime in question. The dialectical-materialistic method of scientific cognition, analysis, synthesis and statistical ...
Socio-political moods of the residents of the Kaliningrad region as an indicator of the geopolitical security of the region
The article considers one of the indicators of geopolitical security — socio-political moods. Social dissatisfaction, political trust, political activity, migration attitudes of the inhabitants of the Kaliningrad region were revealed. The study was based on the theoretical and empirical ...
Functions of words-realities in S. Rushdie’s novel “midnight’s Children”
... national dishes used by the author serve to intensify the development of plotlines in artistic narrative. The realia words of this group function in the novel as means of creating social color, markers of significant events in the characters' lives, indicators of the characters' emotional states, explicators of the retrospective mental-cognitive activities of the subjective narrator, and also serve as the organizing link in the circular composition of the novel.
realia words, national-cultural ...
Peculiarities of Gogol’s ironic narrative
... hidden authorial evaluation, have been established. Based on the analysis of N. V. Gogol's works, it is concluded that the ironic narrative of the writer is built on mechanisms that generate contradiction in various contexts. Gogol's irony serves as an indicator of the author's transition from the direct presentation of events to their evaluation and is manifested through a range of lexical, syntactic, phraseological, and textual devices, which act as markers of semantic dissonance in the content ...
The ecological state of the Vistula lagoon using indicators of water quality and eutrophication
... transboundary lagoon of the Baltic Sea that is subject to significant pollution and water eutrophication. An assessment of the ecological condition of the lagoon was conducted based on the calculation of modern Russian and foreign water pollution indices for the period 2007—2022. The long-term variability of these parameters was analyzed for the lagoon as a whole and separately for four regions characterized by specific conditions. The highest level of water pollution is characteristic of ...
Promising methods for detecting submarine groundwater discharge in the Baltic Sea and experience of their application
... Jurassic and Cretaceous horizons occurs. The conclusion is drawn that for effective detection of submarine discharge foci, a comprehensive approach involving various research methods is necessary.
submarine discharge, groundwater, Baltic Sea, indicators, methods, anomalies
63-77
10.5922/gikbfu-2023-3-5
Experience of assessing the ethnic contrast of the borders of the republics of the Ural-Volga region
... borders of the republics in the Ural-Volga region is presented based on a methodology that relies on assessing interethnic marriage rates between the titular nations of the republics and the Russian population. To achieve this, the study introduces an indicator called the Ethnic Contrast Coefficient, or the Soroko coefficient. The calculation of the coefficient is based on the assessment of «interethnic distances» defined by E. L. Soroko for pairs of major ethnic groups represented in the Ural-Volga ...
Formation of a reclamation layer at open-cast mining
... quality of the land complies with environmental quality standards and the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation. The purpose of this work was to study the process of formation of a reclamation layer in open-cast coal mines. The indicators of the quality of the fertile soil layer should correlate to the quality of the fertile soil layer on average for the region. For effective recultivation, the fertile soil layer should be distinguished by a high content of humic acids and nutrients,...
Geoecological aspects of various types of archaeological sites in the North-West of the Russian Plain
... The application of geo-chemical research methods enables the assessment of ancient human impact on the surrounding environment and also provides insights into their activities and motivations for selecting specific locations. Analysis of geo-chemical indicators such as SiO2, Al2O3, MgO, CaO, Fe2O3 helps reveal distinct microrelief features. The examination of anthropogenic activity-related geo-chemical modules within the archaeological site, such as P2O5(anthrop), CaO(anthrop), K2O(anthrop), Rb(anthrop),...
Setting up specially protected natural areas of local significance in Kaliningrad: problems and solutions
... land plots in several streets (i. e. Basseynaya, Lieutenant Katina and Sportivnaya) of the city of Kaliningrad for their compliance with the requirements for a specially protected natural area of local importance. It is shown that the territory of the indicated forest park zone meets the main criteria for designating a specially protected natural area of local importance. Given the urban environment, the territory has a high level of biological diversity, including regionally rare species; within the ...
Different approaches to studying the tourist flows geography (the case of the Benelux countries)
... based on the national tourism statistics of the Benelux countries. Five leading countries in terms of the volume of inbound tourist flow in this region are considered: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium. Four different indicators were used to analyze the distribution of inbound tourist flow: the total number of arrivals of foreign and domestic tourists in the region, inbound tourist flow diversity index, the share of arrivals from a particular country in the total volume ...
The urban environment quality in the Leningrad region in 2018—2021
... changes and migration growth, absolute population and municipal budget expenditures. The use of cartographic and mathematical methods made it possible to conclude that there is no significant direct correlation between the values of the UEQI and the indicators previously specified. Spatial differentiation of cities according to the values of UEQI was revealed. The study has determined that the quality of living category is not limited to the category of quality of the urban environment, while any ...
Foreign trade activity of the subjects of the Russian Federation: prospects for maintaining the geographical structure of supplies
... and the export volume is higher than 50 % of their total export volume. The fourth group includes the regions whose volume of interaction with “unfriendly” countries is lower than 50 % of the total volume of their imports and exports. The highest indicators of maintaining the geographical structure of deliveries are expected primarily from the participants included in the fourth group.
geography of supplies, unfriendly countries, import, export
36-49
10.5922/gikbfu-2023-1-3
NATO militarisation of the Baltic region and risks security of Russia
... could cause significant political and economic damage to Russia in the Baltic region. For a qualitative, unbiased scientific analysis of the trends, challenges and threats to Russia’s security taking place in the region, there is a need to improve the indicative system for assessing their level of danger, determining thresholds and directions for the development of the situation in vital systems, which would make it possible to make the most correct management decisions. There are many works devoted ...
Peculiarities of ceramic production from the Neolithic settlements Pribrezhnoye and Ushakovo-3
... for clays from nearby deposits that, while geographically close, exhibited local differences in trace element composition, impacting the technological characteristics of the ceramics. Additionally, rare instances of foreign ceramics were identified, indicating some external connections. Thus, the results of these interdisciplinary studies, which sometimes yield unexpected and significant insights that are difficult or even impossible to obtain using traditional methods, demonstrate the clear potential ...
Implementation of the principle of learning though speech patterns in profile-oriented foreign language training
... practical implementation option of the principle for the purposes of professionally-oriented foreign language teaching for students in the field of information technology is proposed. The study concludes that the quality of such foreign language training indicators as visibility, authenticity, time efficiency, functionality, and complexity (multi-aspect nature) is improved in the process of forming professionally-oriented speech skills and developing students’ speech abilities.
speech pattern,...
‘I did know who they were’: The red horse and the white poodle in Viktor Sosnora’s The Latvian Ballad
... poem The Latvian Ballad. These characters, mentioned in the final verses of each odd-numbered stanza, provide the leitmotif of the poem. Their appearance in the fictional world of The Latvian Ballad constitutes the primary event of the text. The title, indicating the genre and setting a national or local context, also significantly influences the meanings attributed to the red horse and the white poodle. The analysis pays particular attention to the spatiotemporal organisation of the text, highlighting ...
Supporting frames of the leading industrial complexes of the manufacturing industry of the Far North of Russia
... classification of industrial hubs divided into four categories. The study also highlights general trends in the development of the supporting frameworks of the manufacturing industry in the northern territories of Russia in recent years. The findings indicate that the manufacturing industry in the Far North has undergone minimal transformation in recent years, with changes primarily limited to the modernization of existing facilities or the closure of unprofitable enterprises.
Far North, manufacturing ...
Total suspended matter in the Gdansk deep at oxygenated / anoxic conditions in 2018—2023
... suspended matter in the southeastern part of the Baltic Sea are primary production and abrasion processes in the coastal zone. From the intensively mixed coastal zone, the suspended matter is transported to the Gdańsk Deep, where benthic nepheloid layers indicate complex sedimentation conditions, suggesting that this area cannot be considered a simple carbon sink. Intermediate nepheloid layers form during the seasonal shift from oxygenated to anoxic conditions, especially when local maxima of dissolved ...
Ethno-cultural aspects of arctic specificity in socio-economic development strategies of regions and municipalities of the Russian Federation Arctic Zone
... the SEDS is also examined, and the strategies where this issue is covered are described. The article compares municipalities and regions of the AZRF based on the presence of ethnocultural topics in the strategies and their corresponding socio-economic indicators. A final grouping of municipalities is conducted according to the actual proportion of ISNP in the population of Arctic municipalities and the degree to which ISNP-related issues are reflected in SEDS, determined by the frequency of the marker ...
Transformation of directions of international educational migration in the Kaliningrad region
... intensive, and its results are having a more noticeable impact on socio-political and socio-economic processes. This article examines international educational migration as a source of potential labor resources for the country’s economy and as an indicator for assessing geopolitical and geoeconomic processes. Current trends in international educational migration show that North American and European countries are the main recipients of foreign students, while the donor countries are predominantly ...
Mercury content in fish caught in the Northern Dvina below a pulp and paper mill
... distribution of mercury in tissue samples of various fish species were determined to provide insight into components of the mercury cycle in the study area. Lower mercury levels in pristine areas of the Russian subarctic showed the role of aquatic organisms as indicators of the biogeochemical cycle of mercury migration in northern freshwater areas. This study provides new scientific data on the levels of mercury found in fish from the Northern Dvina, particularly those in its estuary zone affected by the pulp ...
An analysis of climate continentality index for Russia's NorthEast
... Considering the continentality index enables determining current climate characteristics and predicting potential changes. This study aims to assess climate change in Russia’s North-East by analysing the continentality index as a complex integral indicator of these changes applicable to vast territories.
Although there are many methods for assessing climate continentality, there is no universal methodology. It is proposed in this contribution to employ two of the existing techniques. The ...
Reclaiming the “Cultural Mandate”: The Idea of Sustainable Development in the Kantian Perspective
... “capitalism — short-termism — depletion of resources” with the Kantian assessment of the attempts to escape from the predicaments of the present into the past or the future. I draw attention to Kant’s solutions to some of the specific problems indicated in the report. Instead of the strategy of “return of the cultural mandate”, proposed at this time by the authors of the report, the Kantian answer to the crisis is a “Copernican turn” and re-direction of the cultivating effort to the ...
How presuppositions and illocutionary force become components of sense: some implications from the analysis of fictitious names in Frege’s philosophy
... lack denotation: the articulation of a naming relation, the formulation of a propositional attitude of intention, and the formulation of a propositional attitude that conveys a metafictional context. Through these methods, the speaker's intent to indicate a real or fictional object becomes a constituent of thought, i. e., the sense of the sentence. Fictions themselves become components of thought when they are found in an indirect context, wherein their sense serves as their denotation. When ...
Really: syntactics without semiotics?
... Meanwhile, Zaliznjak failed to provide a lexicographical description of TI1 and reliable external parallels from other languages. I argue that TI1 is a marker of verification with the meaning ‘p really takes place’. The view that TI1 expressed enhanced indicativity is not tenable, since this particle was licensed in hypothetical contexts and combined with the optative marker. It is essential to identify the lexicographic type of a functional word in order to get its full syntactics.
Abdur-Rahim,...
What is a ‘rare’ language in translation? The experience of distance reading
... while the Dutch publisher includes Hebrew, Romanian, and Portuguese. Both publishers encompass a total of 20 source languages, which is a small number compared to the global linguistic diversity. Comparing the volumes of source languages also indicates differences in preferences. Central European languages are chosen in the Netherlands, while Norwegian and Icelandic are favored in Russia. These differences may be influenced by the cost of rights to works, editorial preferences, and ...
Simultaneous interpreter in multimodal dimension: the role of gestures in moments of non-interpretation
... Video recordings of a TEDtalk on biology interpreted from English into Russian by 24 simultaneous interpreters are analyzed with the help of quantitative and qualitative methods. The distribution of gestures with the moments of ‘non-interpretation’ indicates that referential (representational and deictic) gestures serve the compensatory function of strengthening the mappings between three frames of reference in which a simultaneous interpreter acts at the same time: i. e., the frame of reference ...
Translation as a journey through possible and impossible worlds
... there are disparities between the world of the original text and the world of the translated text. For example, in the case of French subjunctive forms, which are grammatically mandatory in the original language, they often need to be replaced with indicative forms in the target language, such as Russian. Externally, this transformation appears as a change from expressing a possibility in one world to making a statement about the actual world. Various techniques for transforming French inserts in ...
Ekaterinburg — Sverdlovsk — Ekaterinburg: the city image in the dynamics of a toponymic text
... of cultural experience to the next historic period are traced. In the image of Ekaterinburg represented in its toponymic text, traits of the city’s territorial identity underpinned by its natural and geographical, economic and social factors are indicated.
Anisimov, N. O., 2018. City in discourse of semiotics.
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Oblastnaya ...
Analysis and translation of the Old English poem Instructions for Christians in the context of the Christian tradition
... and exchange. Issues related to the deeds of the Old Testament prophets and the New Testament Apostle Paul are highlighted in the context of the analyzed material. The work provides a list of variant addresses to God which are used in the poem, which indicates a developed Christian tradition in the Old English period, and also notes the direct name of the devil, which is usually absent in the texts of this period.
Armstrong, K., 1997. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. New York: Ballantine ...
Interfaces of Contemporary Poetry: Turn-taking and Multiple Addressing
... several shifts (deictic, functional, etc.), allowing us to deal with the updating of the communication parameters of a poetic utterance. This modification involves bringing the communication channel to the fore, as well as explicating the turn-taking indices in its non-conventional function. Thus, at the present stage, the poetic message is supplemented by new (linguistic and media) means, including interfaces, pseudo-dialogue models characteristic of online correspondence, conversational patterns,...
Fyodor Dostoevsky vs Karl Marx: Personal Freedom in Existential and Social Dimensions
... perspectives, that despite differences in their understanding of freedom and its attainment, their positions can be seen as complementary. Dostoevsky advocated for inner spiritual improvement, while Marx prioritized external structural change. Research indicates that these perspectives can mutually reinforce each other. The authors assert and support the thesis that according to Dostoevsky, achieving spiritual freedom is feasible through labour activity, a concept akin to Marx's notion of praxis.
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Kitaitsy: osobennosti natsional'noi psikhologii
[The Chinese: features of national psychology] St. Petersburg, 336 p. (in Russ.).
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