Kaliningrad region in the context of current geopolitical challenges: dynamics and trends
The Kaliningrad region, as a Russian exclave located at the center of the Baltic region, has found itself at the epicenter of geopolitical confrontation between the Russian Federation and the collective West. With the launch of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, confrontation with NATO, the European Union, and regional states has reached its peak. The geographical position of the Kaliningrad region has generated threats of transport and economic blockade, while simultaneously enhancing its...
Verbal charm as a special class of performative speech acts in Russian linguoculture
... complex linguocultural mechanisms that provide not only protection but also psychological stability in traditional society. The developed approach can be productively applied to further study the functional mechanisms of sacred texts and verbal protective strategies in different cultures, as well as to analyze other linguistic phenomena representing sacred experience in folklore.
verbal charm, theory of speech acts, illocutionary type, Russian linguoculture
29-40
10.5922/vestnikpsy-2026-1-3
Mechanisms of adaptation of Christian anthroponyms in Votic and Ingrian: a comparative study
... typological methods, and systematic reconstruction. The empirical basis of the research comprises data from fieldwork, archival sources, and lexicographic materials dating from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The analysis identifies the principal strategies of phonological and morphological adaptation of borrowings and determines the dominant models underlying anthroponymic transformation. The findings demonstrate that a substantial proportion of Votic and Ingrian personal name forms derive ...
Regional politics of memory during the commemoration of the anniversaries of historical events in the Republic of Ingushetia
... construction of monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. It is shown that, although a “consolidated” model of memory is being formed in the republic, its substantive content and institutional environment vary depending on the configuration and strategies of the actors involved.
politics of memory, mnemonic actors, deportation, Ingush statehood, commemoration, discourse
105-120
10.5922/vestnikhum-2025-4-9
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...
Language indicators of confrontational speech strategies used in everyday marital discourse
The article examines the features of representing the confrontational speech strategy of discreditation, used in everyday communication, particularly in marital discourse. The goal of the research is to identify the speech tactics employed in domestic communication between spouses for the purpose of discrediting and weakening the communicative position of the communication partner. To achieve the research goal, descriptive method, method of component analysis, observation and interpretation method...
The urban environment quality in the Leningrad region in 2018—2021
Since 2019, the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation has annually assessed the quality of the urban environment in more than 1,114 cities. The paper takes the case of the Leningrad region to consider a number of hypotheses about the correspondence between the Urban Environment Quality Index (UEQI) values, the city’s remoteness from agglomeration centers, population changes and migration growth, absolute population and municipal budget expenditures. The use of...
Socio-geographic approach to substantiating economic security boundaries of a border region
Dramatic geopolitical and geo-economic changes occurring since 2022 have created a new development context for Russian border regions redrawing their economic security boundaries. The latter are also changing, which is understood as the required level of security in the current mode of functioning of the territorial system in terms of its openness or closeness. These regions, especially ones located along the northwestern borders, geo-strategically gain more military and political importance for...
NATO militarisation of the Baltic region and risks security of Russia
The article examines the dynamics of the development of relations between the countries of the Baltic region, the influence of NATO and the United States on them in the conditions of the emerging polycentric world order. The main risks and threats to Russian regional security at the present time are identified, and measures to localize and neutralize them are proposed. The development of the international situation in the Baltic Sea in the medium term is predicted, and the possible consequences of...
Culture of historical memory of modern German monarchism
... that operate within the political and ideological framework of monarchism. It is suggested that the visualization of collective historical memory regarding the unique historical experience of monarchy, including the narrative and discursive tactics and strategies of contemporary monarchists, enhances the heterogeneous nature of Germany’s memorial tradition, fostering the consolidation of unique perspectives on the past, which form the foundation of monarchist historical imagination and memorial culture ...
Dichotomies of Eurasianism: A Socio-Geographical Analysis
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Migration policy of the Baltic states in the context of EU and Russian interests
The European migration crisis has brought scholarly attention to national migration policies, including those of the Baltic states — Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — all of which border Russia. This study aims to identify the key features of these policies, considering both Russian interests and those of the EU. To this end, this article undertakes, for the first time, a comparative analysis of the Baltic States’ relevant strategic documents for the 2020s: Lithuania’s Strategy for Demography, Migration...
Corporate training of software testers as a pedagogical problem
... companies interested in effectively training and improving the qualifications of their software testers. The presented results hold potential for further progress in the field of corporate training and may contribute to the development of practical strategies and methodologies in this area. Attention is also given to identifying and analyzing pedagogical challenges associated with corporate training for software testers. The analysis of these challenges allows for the identification of key aspects ...
Polydiscursive paradigm of specialised translation in the glocal multilingual coordinates
... structure of specialized translational discourse, its nuclear and allied types of integrated discourses. This emphasizes the distinction from monodiscursive translational actions. Within the poly-discursive space, a translator constructs translational strategies and a comprehensive translation technology in accordance with criteria, features, dominants, values, chronotopes, participants, and other discursively determined characteristics of all integrated discourses, both nuclear and allied. Thus, the ...
Ethno-cultural aspects of arctic specificity in socio-economic development strategies of regions and municipalities of the Russian Federation Arctic Zone
The article addresses the integration of ethnocultural aspects of the Arctic issues concerning the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Russian Far East (ISNP) into the socio-economic development strategies (SEDS) of the regions and municipalities within the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF). The study is based on the authors' methodology for content analysis of strategies, which enables the identification of the presence of various ...
Factors influencing the transformation of the functional and spatial structure of St. Petersburg agglomeration in the 2020-s
The aim of this article is to propose and illustrate, through specific examples, a detailed list of factors influencing the transformation of the functional and spatial structure of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration in the period from 2020 to 2024, as analyzed by the authors. In this study, the functional structure of the urban agglomeration refers to its economy, employment structure, and specialization, while the spatial (geographical) structure refers to the settlement system, connected by transport...
Russia's geostrategic position in the Baltic area as a threat of naval blockade in the current circumstances
This article utilises a systematic approach for a comprehensive examination of the Baltic Sea region as a geopolitical space and an analysis of geopolitical events (event-analysis) aimed to assess the capabilities of the US and NATO to impose a naval blockade on Russia in the Baltic Sea. This study is made relevant by the growing confrontation between the collective West and Russia, and the provocative anti-Russian rhetoric adopted by official representatives of NATO states. Finland’s accession...
Creative Potential of Artificial Intelligence in the Context of the Idea of the New Enlightenment
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The Problem of the Possibility of an Artificial Moral Agent in the Context of Kant’s Practical Philosophy
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Open Use of Reason: Socrates and Kant
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Non-translation and translation in Heidegger, Losev, and Ortega y Gasset
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Multimodal text as a means of political identification: an analysis of the Russian blogosphere
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Review of Recent Russian Studies of Hermann Cohen’s Philosophy
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Technological Metaphor and Communicative Models in Contemporary Russian Poetry
... article proposes an approach to the study of technological metaphor in three aspects: the examination of a technical object as containing its own metaphorical substrate, the thematization of a technical object in a poetic text and metaphorization strategies, and the implicit functioning of a technological metaphor at the level of the whole text, which affects the communication structure of poetic discourse. The key parameters of the new communication models in poetic discourse include the transformation ...
Interfaces of Contemporary Poetry: Turn-taking and Multiple Addressing
... grammatical norms, the graphic highlighting of pragmatic markers, and the representation of computer interface elements such as messengers, social networks, etc. At the same time, the media interface creates a multiplicity of addressing and influences the strategies of indirect subjectivation that manifest themselves as a result of several shifts (deictic, functional, etc.), allowing us to deal with the updating of the communication parameters of a poetic utterance. This modification involves bringing ...
New Technologies and Pragmatic Techniques in Contemporary Poetry
... affects the transformation of all the parameters of communication, due to the dominance of information channels and codes. The interaction of poetic language with colloquial speech and the influence of digital technologies lead to the creation of new strategies of subjectivation and addressing in contemporary poetry, as well as to an increase in the role of poetic pragmatics. In addition, the process of meaning formation in contemporary poetry involves the mechanism of transcoding, i. e. the transfer ...
“The Voice of Hotness from the Margins”. On the interaction of poetry and politics
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Ideas about private space boundaries and tact in Russian communicative culture: results of a sociolinguistic experiment
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Heine’s dolnik in the academic discussion and the Russian translation practice of the 1900s—1930s
... and meter in non-syllabic verse, as well as the establishment of ideas concerning formal and functional equivalence of metric forms in poetic translation. In addition to scientific discussions from the 1910s—1930s, the paper addresses the rhythmic strategies employed in Russian translations of Heine’s three-ictic dolnik of the early decades of the 20th century by Alexander Blok, Yuri Tynianov, Viktor Zorgenfrei, Evgenya Knipovich, and Vera Arens. The equirhythmic tradition established by Blok ...
Language conflict in the literary discourse: Jia Pingwa’s novel “Qin Qiang”
... pragmatic-semantic and stylistic-syntactic conventional norms. Drawing on empirical material, the study demonstrates that the use of conflictogenic discourse in prose is a distinctive feature of Jia Pingwa’s idiosyncrasy, integrating various communicative strategies. The findings provide a foundation for further research into speech collisions in Chinese fiction.
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Yazyk v global'nom kontekste: yazykovye kontakty i yazykovye ...
The possibility of using the remaining wastewater from biological treatment plants for the purposes of green construction and biological reclamation
... ability to absorb and effectively sequester CO2 for centuries when incorporated into soil, simultaneously enhancing soil quality and promoting sustainable land use and development. The link between biomass and biochar represents one of the most effective strategies for addressing climate challenges. This triple positive effect makes biochar and its production technologies highly promising in the context of climate policy. As a result, a distinct field known as pyrogenic carbon capture and storage is now ...
Problems of investment attractiveness of resort facilities in the North Caucasus Federal District in the context of their irrational territorial location
... investment development, including environmental degradation, irrational use of natural resources, and deficiencies in the territorial management system. The practical significance of the research lies in the applicability of its findings for designing strategies for the sustainable development of tourist and recreational areas in the North Caucasus Federal District. The conclusion outlines a set of proposals aimed at reducing environmental risks, enhancing the efficiency of spatial planning, and ...
Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism: Kantian Transcendental Ideal from the Historical Perspective of the “Odyssey of the Spirit”
... System which explores the sensation and its link with the thing-in-itself, I explain how the dialectic of the boundary modeled by Schelling grounds the historicity of self-consciousness and raise the question of the possibility of grounding various strategies of understanding historicity of consciousness on the basis of Schelling’s premises.
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Pragmatics of epistemic warrants of the real, the possible and the probable in discourse
... pragmatics and has great applied potential. The article examines the lines of demarcation between linguistic semantics and pragmatics, as well as research directions in the field of epistemic pragmatics, including the use of epistemic modalities in the text. Strategies and tactics of manipulative influence on the audience play a crucial role in the presentation of epistemic warrants — guarantees that shape the epistemic credit history of communicants and may sometimes result in epistemic default. Some communicative ...
The space of metaphor in the space of the created locus (based on Hrant Matevosyan’s prose)
... 21
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centuries there was a deliberate displacement of some signs by others — from the demolition of religious and Soviet architectural objects to toponymic transformations. Analyzing examples of street renaming, the authors reveal how
ideological strategies are manifested both in state
initiatives and in local commercial names. Particular attention is paid to
protest movements (from 1988 to 2022), in which the street acts as a space for
the articulation of collective subjectivity. Methodologically,...
Development of the military-industrial complex of Pakistan in the 21st century as an element of the national military strategy
The article examines the specific features of strategic planning in the military-industrial complex of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The aim of the study is to identify the main trends in the development of the country’s defense industry, its problems, and prospects. To provide a comprehensive analysis of the issue, content analysis of key conceptual and legal documents is applied, as well as the hypothesis of A. M. Fewolden and K. Tvetbroten regarding the effectiveness of implementing such...
Ways of expressing the call-to-action tactics in English-language environmental discourse
... presence of additional linguistic devices in the analyzed texts is also noted, contributing to the enhancement of the linguo-pragmatic potential of English-language media-based environmental discourse.
environmental discourse, communicative strategies, call-to-action tactics, language means
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10.5922/vestnikpsy-2025-2-3
Means of explicating the strategy of manipulating information in american electoral discourse
... 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 analyzed, namely evasion of an answer, question substitution, speculation, generalization,...
Communicative move “indirect insult” in a political talk show (based on Tucker Carlson Tonight)
... research topic is determined by the growing interest of linguists in studying the means of verbalizing speech aggression in the discourse of politicians and political commentators. This interest is reflected in the analysis of the repertoire of speech strategies employed, implemented through specific tactics and represented by particular speech moves and linguistic means. The study analyzes the speech move “indirect insult,” which actualizes the tactic of insult within the speech-behavioral strategy ...
Means of expression and functions of situational-discursive demonstrativeness in personal and institutional discourses
... metaphors, pronouns with a generalizing meaning (e. g., “everyone”), intensifying adverbs, inversion, exclamatory sentences, rhetorical questions, syntactic parallelism, positive constatives, demonstration of material attributes of success, and speech strategies of boasting and exaggeration. In different communicative situations, demonstrative tonality serves influencing, regulatory, evaluative, presentational, constative, communicative, and emotive functions. The findings can be applied in the fields ...
Representation of the image of Kaliningrad in the names of guided city tours
The article offers a qualitative content analysis of the names of Kaliningrad city tours and identifies the main distinctive features of the image of the city represented in them. The name of the tour is a message sent by the tour operator to the addressee — the potential consumer of tourist services. This type of communication is not exclusively commercial; it has an indirect impact on the accomplishment of a broader range of socially significant goals, first and foremost, the formation of a positive...
Poetics of the deconstruction of Reinhard Jirgl’s text: A translational perspective
This article explores Reinhard Jirgl’s concept of literary writing, which uses linguistic and textual deconstruction, alphanumeric encoding, and intra- and intertextual strategies. Semiotic and discursive analyses allow identifying lexical, syntactic, and semantic elements of the structural and functional performativity of Jirgl’s texts. His prose exploits the enormous poetic potential of the alphanumeric code, the ...