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The article investigates the phenomenon of rent-seeking and rent-oriented behavior in the sphere of culture and arts. The author describes the specific features of the cultural production. It is shown that, the supply of cultural goods is characterized by the different level of rarity and consists from creative production, services of the institutions of culture and art, antiques, reproductions ...

... the European Union to each other. This move was highly questioned by the public. In addition to eloquent statements about the need to break the adverse interdependence of sovereign risks and risks of the banking sector, this Declaration included two specific legal obligations. Firstly, the creation of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the centralized supervision of the banking sector of the Member States of the eurozone with supervisory powers transferred to the European Central Bank in ...

This article focuses on the specific features of a study into social pathologies in Russian sociology. The author emphasises that the addressing of moral problems is a tradition of Russian social thought. 1.  Лавров П.   Л . Избранные сочинения: в ...

The Kaliningrad region has a sub-replacement fertility rate (with a total fertility rate of about 1.8) and a slightly negative rate of natural increase. With a net migration of up to 10,000 people per year (Russian regions account for 37 % of this figure), the population of the region is increasing and the workforce number is stable. Population change and age-sex structure forecasts strongly rely on the estimates of prospective net migration and a rate of natural increase. Accompanied by a decreasing...

The article deals with the regionalization of social processes and their specific manifestations in the post-Soviet space. According to the author, regionalization is developing at four levels-international (macroregional), subregional, intraregional and on country levels. The most important one is the international level....

... the surviving repertoire of the Neues Schauspielhaus (New Dramatic Theater) in Königsberg, staged in April 1944, four months before the destruction of the city’s historic center due to Anglo-American bombing. The aim of the study is to identify the specifics of the theater’s dramaturgical repertoire selection during the Nazi era in a frontline city, in the context of its historical fate. The plays of Hermann Sudermann — “Teya,” “Fritzchen,” and “The Last Visit” — as well as Johan ...

... standards within its relevant environment, thereby objectifying the actional nature of cultural modality. The study demonstrates that cultural modality is formed at an archetypal level. Analysis reveals that a text, as a model of reality, reflects numerous specific cultural modalities generated by its characters. Plot development is determined by the challenges of reality, to which the hero responds either by following or rejecting the norms. The study shows that cultural modality employs both verbal and ...

... contextual-conceptual characteristics. On this basis, the pa­per proposes a typology consisting of two translation strategies bearing the same de­sig­nation and corresponding to the two categories of translation identified. At the same time, drawing on specific examples from translation practice, the study demonstrates that the strategy of con­ventional translation may also be applied within peculiar translation, depending on whe­ther and to what extent the actions and operations performed by the ...

... garantie, and asile; the far periphery comprises assurance, fid?lit?, justesse, solidit?, and franchise; and the extreme periphery is represented by apaisement and talisman. The use of lexical units denoting security in the novel is accompanied by a specific set of modifiers and verbs. The verbs display greater variability than the adjectives associated with these lexical units. Most frequently, the author combines security-related lexemes with the adjectives absolue, par­fai­te, telle, digne, ...

... correspondence is ground­ed in the idea of spiritual 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 ...

The views of representatives of monarchist circles within Russian society toward the last Russian emperor during the years of the First World War are examined. The study concludes that two models of monarchists’ attitudes toward Nicholas II during the specified period can be identified. The apologetic model was based on monarchists’ perception of the emperor’s personal virtues, including his loyalty to duty. Among the prominent apologists of the mon­arch was A. I. Dubrovin, the founder of the All-Russian...

The circumstances of granting V. M. Lermontov a personal national retirement benefit are identified; in particular, attention is paid to the specific features of assigning pensions of this type to relatives of Russian literary classics, his biography is уточнена, and the degree of kinship with the poet is established. The authors of the study are guided by the principles of historicism ...

The current state of the digitalization of criminal procedure is examined, and an attempt is made to assess the prospects for its further development in the context of the use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. Specific proposals for reforming criminal procedure legislation are analyzed, and the risk of the emergence of defects caused by the digitalization of criminal procedure is forecast. The author comes to the conclusion that, already at the stage of preparing ...

... not only current but also future needs of society, the state, business, and the population — the natural end users of natural and recreational resources. A new methodological approach is proposed for assessing the nature-recreational potential of a specific territory. This approach evaluates the recreational potential of an area by taking into account climate, topography, water resources, the level of agricultural development, vegetation characteristics, and the presence of protected natural areas....

Using the example of Randal MacDonnell, Earl and Marquess of Antrim, the article ex­amines the specific features of the attitude of the English political establishment during the period of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate toward representatives of the Irish Catholic community. During the years of the First Civil War, this aristocrat was an ...

... its actual implementation. A comparison is made between the positioning of Moldova, Cuba, and Uzbekistan as observer states within the EAEU. Special attention is given to ranking the factors hindering and promoting the effective implementation of this specific international-political status. The conclusion is substantiated that among the hindering factors are the weakness of the national economy and domestic political instability, while among the promoting factors are the presence of political will ...

... outlined. The religious peculiarities of the ethno-confessional group of the Great Russian people were analyzed both regionally and in the broader imperial context. The development and spread of “legal Old Belief” or “Edinoverie” and the social specifics of the Old Believer community in the Northwestern region were examined. Special attention was given to the complex relations between the state authorities and the official church with the Old Believers in the Northwestern region. The interest ...

The specific features of doctrinal principles of law, complicating the process of their clas­sification, are noted. Based on a positivist legal understanding, three original classifications of doctrinal principles of Russian law are proposed. The first classification ...

... all communication links in the world. Political communications under these conditions look more and more like channels with expanding "black boxes" and improperly used "white noise". The purpose of this analysis is to identify the specifics of political communication under conditions of international bifurcations. The methodology of the analysis is based on the symbiosis of modern theories: mathematical modeling of communication by C. Shannon and W. Weaver, political cybernetics ...

... are incurred by very limited control in the digital space, first of all social networks due to anonymity of their users. The article proposes some measures to optimize the forensic prevention of crimes committed through cyberbullying. The choice of specific preventive measures should be conditioned by: materials of the criminal case; circumstances prevailing at the time of the decision to implement preventive measures; peculiarities of the personality of the juvenile and other factors. cyberbullying,...

... young people. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to study the perception of the regional history and historical and cultural heritage by the population of the Kaliningrad region. Based on the theory of generations, significant differences in the specifics of the historical memory of generational groups were revealed. Differences were found in the degree of their interest in the periods of the history of the region. The younger generations are mainly interested in the German period, while the ...

... "The Journey of the People of the Book" and "The Books of Jacob,", where the conceptual role is played by motifs of travel and books, and the theme of religious-mystical societies of the 17th-18th centuries becomes significant. The genre specificity of the two texts, features of their narrative structure, and character systems are considered. It is asserted that the two analyzed books share a logocentric and book-centric worldview, the meaning of which lies in the belief in the ability ...

... of the functioning of realia words in the text of Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight’s Children." The delimitation of the term "realia words" is car­ried out in its comparison with the concept of "realia." The language specificity of the novel is noted, which consists of intentionally incorporating exotic vocabulary into the text without corresponding authorial commentary, the meaning of which can be understood by a non-native reader only within a specific context. ...

... that the discreditation strategy is implemented through speech tactics of threat, accusation, reproach, request, appeals to authority, and appeals to precedent. The analysis resulted in the identification of typical linguistic indicators that shape specific confrontational speech tactics. confrontational speech strategy, speech tactics, marital discourse, language indicators 26-35 10.5922/pikbfu-2023-3-3

... classes, structu­ral and word-formation types). Names with dialectical foundations are singled out separately. Emphasis is placed on the role of unofficial names for geographical objects in the speech of the region's residents. Common Russian traits and specific characteristics of borderland topony­my are identified. microtoponym, unofficial toponym, classification, Smolensk-Bela­ru­sian border area, Rudnyansky district 18-25 10.5922/pikbfu-2023-3-2