International Scientific Conference “Kant and Solovyov: Convergences and Divergences”
... conferences on the theme of “Immanuel Kant and Russian Philosophers: Convergences and Divergences.” The first conference, co-organized with the Department of the History of Russian Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University, is devoted to the reception and criticism of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant by the Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov.
The aim of the gathering is to examine diverse aspects of Solovyov’s philosophical works — epistemological, philosophico-political,...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... since the end of the 2010s has not been extensively studied [14], [15]. This increase is often examined tangentially in the context of a general escalation of tensions in the Baltic region [16], [17], [18], [19]. In the literature, experts have not devoted sufficient attention to the evolution of Germany’s military presence in Lithuania and contacts within the B3 + 1 format, especially in the early 2020s, which were pivotal for the dialogue.
In this study, the author employs several methodological ...
Evangelical Lutheran church of Denmark: socio-economic and territorial-organisational aspects
... focused on specific regions of the country [28] or particular aspects of religious life [29]. The articles of foreign scholars, such as Christensen [30], Haugen [31], Reeh [32], and Jensen and Geertz [33], should be mentioned as well.
However, works devoted to the general overview of the Church of Denmark based on relevant data could not be found in academic literature.
Results
The Church of Denmark, also known as the National Church or Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Denmark (ELCD), has been the ...
Gustav Shpet’s “Notes on Kant”: On the Meaning of “Positive Critique”
The archive of Gustav Shpet contains scattered preparatory materials for his “Lectures on the Theory of Cognition” and his major philosophical work History as a Problem of Logic. Some of these handwritten rough notes are devoted to Kant, indeed some of them have already seen the light of day in the “Kantian Journal” (2022, № 3). The notes published below continue to acquaint the reader with Shpet’s creative laboratory. His method of work with the concepts and ...
From the editor
... authorities grappled with issues related to Russian cargo transit through Lithuania. Notably, the Ust-Luga — Baltiysk train ferry service, which has seen substantial demand since 2022, was inaugurated as early as 2006.
Another section of the issue is devoted exclusively to the Kaliningrad region. The article by V. A. Kolosov and A. B. Sebentsov looks at how the functions of borders affect the restructuring of the region’s economy, emphasising the role of the border as either a barrier or a stimulus ...
“I lived in Moscow, the capital of the world…”: Moscow in the poetic geography of Alexander Galich
... / periphery, while Moscow (or another capital replacing it) acts as the frequency expression of the structural center, and the periphery can be represented as a) the Russian province, b) a place of memory, c) the space of otherness. This article is devoted to the description of Moscow as a component of this poetic system, the establishment of a circle of motives associated with Moscow, and their role in the Galich plot building. According to the conclusions, the capital in the artistic world of ...
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; ...
Dispute about Holbein as a dispute about faith: discussion around Fedor Dostoevsky’s novel ‘The Idiot’
The article is devoted to the controversy around the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger "Christ in the tomb" and the novel "The Idiot" by Fedor Dostoevsky, where this picture is the central ekphrasis. The aim of the study was to analyze the current ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... of geopolitics is “the impact the features of the territory have on the policy of the state located in this territory” [16, p. 113]. Geopolitical issues are often considered in conjunction with security ones [17], [18]. Modern research in Russia devotes close attention to this area [19], [20], [21].
Taking into account the above definitions of geopolitics, geopolitical security can be defined as a state (a set of factors, processes and their consequences) in which a particular country can steadily ...
Three stages of publication and perception of A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s artistic works in China
The article is devoted to the analysis of the research done on Solzhenitsyn’s literary works in China from 1979 to 2021 on the basis of data from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). The article highlights three stages in the process of publishing and ...
Museum exhibition text: intercultural and translation aspects
The article is devoted to the study of the texts of the museum exhibition, which play the mediator role between visitors of a museum and its artifacts. The purpose of the study is to consider the text of the museum exhibition as an effective tool for intercultural communication....
On the role of the results of operational search activities in contemporary criminal proceedings
The article is devoted to the analysis of the place and role of operational-investigative activities results (hereinafter — ORD) in modern criminal procedural law. The views established in science regarding the use of materials obtained in the course of conducting ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... ability to order goods, services, etc. [23];
3. The ability of residents and entrepreneurs to use the Internet for commercial purposes: placing online orders, Internet banking, electronic commerce (e-commerce), etc. [24], [25].
Most of the studies are devoted to one of these levels [26]. The high availability of technology may not affect the level of its use [23], [26]. Accordingly, the availability of the Internet in some settlements may not contribute to economic growth or better quality of life,...
Securing JavaScript applications with Web Cryptography API
With an increasing number of web applications, the need of ordinary users to have more secure web applications has increased and web developers are attempting to match those expectations. This article is devoted to consideration of the basic concepts of the Web Cryptography API since it defines cryptographic primitives to be deployed across browsers and JavaScript web applications. The purpose of the article is the theoretical justification for ...
Conceptualization of prayer in the diary discourse of L. N. Tolstoy
The article is devoted to analyzing ideas about prayer reflected in Leo Tolstoy’s diaries. The research has been carried out using methods of continuous sampling of diary notes dedicated to prayer, conceptual analysis aimed at highlighting its cognitive features, ...
Extralinguistic factors of city renaming in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic
The article is devoted to extralinguistic factors that contribute to the renaming of cities in one of the North Caucasian regions of Russia. The study of toponymy, in particular, the oikonyms of a certain territory, is of great importance for the study of the history,...
Ekaterinburg — Sverdlovsk — Ekaterinburg: the city image in the dynamics of a toponymic text
The article is devoted to reflecting the image of a city in verbal data — topographic names. The author bases the research upon the ideas of the cultural-semiotic approach to city studies, upon the conception of a city as a text and palimpsest and sets the goal of ...
Poetical reduplications in Alexander Vvedensky’s fiction
The article is devoted to the study of the poetics of reduplication in Alexander Vvedensky's fiction texts. The aim of this research is to analyse the functional range of reduplications at different textual levels, from the lexical to the thematic. Reduplication is ...
The noun visilka: a semantic portrait and a system of multiple meanings (based on police search documentation of the second half of the 19th century)
This article is devoted to one of the important aspects of studying the Russian business language of the second half of the 19th century — the formation of the lexical meaning of the noun visilka (exile, expulsion), typical of the police procedure documentation of ...
Transformation of the tourist and recreation sphere of the Russian-Belarusian border region within the pandemic consequences
... sectors of the economy suffered damage to a certain degree, taking all possible measures to prevent the aggravation of the epidemiological situation. The tourism and recreation sector found itself among the most affected industries. This article is devoted to the urgent problems of transformation in the tourist and recreational sphere of the Russian-Belarusian border areas, in the context of changes in the volume and structure of the flow of tourists, the reasons for their appearance and possible ...
On innovative segment of a lexical semantic field “Social policy”
This article is devoted to the description of lexical innovations in the lexical-semantic field “Social policy” in the Russian language of the recent period. The article examines a synchronous neogenic fragment of the field under study and presents a typology of ...
The study of the history of consular and diplomatic relations between Australia and Russia (on the publication of the book “Diplomatic Correspondence Russia — Australia 1856—2007”)
... colonies and in the Australian Commonwealth from the second half of the 19th century until 1917, the consuls’ dispatches were searched out in the archives and published. Well-founded works have recently appeared in Russian and Australian historiography devoted to attempts to develop political contacts between Russia and Australia in 1917—1921, the establishment of full-fledged diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1942, the development of political ties during the Cold War and in the post-Soviet ...
Politics of urban identity in the cultural heritage discourse of St. Petersburg: media analysi
The article is devoted to the urban identity construction within the existing, inhomogeneous, conflicting discourse of the cultural heritage of St. Petersburg. The discursive practices of the actors of 7 discourses within the main discourse of the cultural heritage ...
Who is the one who uses the human language? On Alexsander Kravchenko's article "Language and the Nature of Humanity")
The article is devoted to the polemic with Alexander Kravchenko regarding his thesis that the way out of the protracted crisis in linguistics is to use a systemic approach to linguistic semiosis as biological adaptation. The author argues that linguistics is not in ...
Broken Facets of Ethical Universalism. Commentary on the Book Universality in Morality
Some ideas expressed in the collective monograph Universality in Morality (2020), edited by Ruben Apressyan, are here critically examined. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study by professional ethical philosophers devoted to the question of the nature of universality in morality and the mechanisms of universalisation of individual maxims and norms from antiquity to modern ethical theories, represented above all by the analytical tradition in philosophy. Of great ...
On the history of graph theory. Origin
... proposed the year 1542 as the year of the probable appearance of the Konigsberg bridges problem. The authors believe that the first report on graph theory was made by Leonhard Euler in 1735 at a Conference of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and is devoted to the Konigsberg bridges problem. The authors believe that the first letter on graph theory by Karl Leonhard Gottlieb Ehler was sent to Leonhard Euler on March 9 (20), 1736 with the question of “the construction of the seven Konigsberg bridges“....
Cross-border digitalization of the western border of Russia: potential and prospects
... primarily based on the use of rapidly developing digital technologies. This led to the growth of academic and practical interest in substantiating the mutual effects of digitalization, innovation and internationalization for the regions. This article is devoted to assessing the potential and prospects of cross-border digitalization of the Western borderland of Russia. The objectives of the study were to identify the gap between border regions in the level of accessibility and penetration of digital technologies,...
Naturalising Kant
The third formulation of the Categorical Imperative rarely receives the attention devoted to its predecessors. This paper aims to develop a naturalistic approach to morality inspired by Kant’s conception of moral agents as legislating in a Kingdom of Ends. Positions derived from the third formulation, John Rawls’s Kantian Constructivism ...
Ignacy Paderewski on the borders and foreign policy of independent Poland (1914—1921)
... for an unprecedented campaign that he launched in the war years in North America and Europe. After his homeland gained independence with the support of the United States, Paderewski became Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland and devoted all his efforts to promoting his idea of creating a "Greater Poland" at the Paris Peace Conference and the League of Nations. After his plan had failed, like all other projects of the Polish great power, he resigned, gave up big politics ...
Writer Sergei Snegov and the politics of memory in the Kaliningrad region (1950―1970s)
... presentation of the pre-war history of the city and the images of Soviet Kaliningrad. In the absence of an approved regional historical narrative and fears of making political mistakes, the oversight authorities forced the author to abandon several storylines devoted to the history of the edge. As a result, the work, originally conceived as a story about the fate of the city and its inhabitants in the past and present, turned into a production novel, traditional for Soviet literature, telling about the achievements ...
"Petits portraits" by Louis-Leopold Boilly and their significance for studying the history of the era of the Premier Empire and the Restoration
This article is devoted to so-called “small portraits” (“petits portraits”) of the famous French painter Louis-Léopold Boilly. We based it on published and archive French sources to show the importance of "small portraits" as the sources to explore ...
Specific ways of creating a northern landscape in H. de Balzac’s “Seraphita”
The article continues a series of author’s works devoted to the study of various types of landscape in the works of French writers of the 19th century. A understudied novel by H. de Balzac “Seraphita” reveals the specific ways of creating the northern landscape. It is determined that Balzac’s ...
Center-peripheral dimension of innovative security in the Western border regions of Russia (the case of the Rostov region)
The article is devoted to studying the territorial patterns of the formation of an innovative space and ensuring innovation security at a municipal level. The geography of the study covers the municipalities of the Rostov region. The analysis of some indicators of ...
The Knight of Contemporary Russian Kantiana. On the 85th Birthday of Leonard Kalinnikov
... Kantianism considered in Kalinnikov’s works include the problem of cognisability of “the thing in itself” and noumenal affection, the character of systematicity in Kant’s philosophy and the methodology of its interpretation. Cycles of articles are devoted to the reception of Kant’s ideas in the philosophical and poetic work of V. S. Solovyov, Kant’s impact on A. S. Pushkin, A. A. Fet, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. These topics are elaborated in the monographs Immanuel Kant in Russian Poetry (2008),...
Active derivational models of the Russian language based on the «Corona» vocabulary
... economic and political life that it has triggered. The pandemic brought about new vocabulary, a number of medical terms and disinfectant names, which have become the most used both in colloquial speech and in the media and Internet discourse. The paper is devoted to the description of the derivatives where the word-forming sructure is based on such lexical units as covid, coronavirus and corona and related to the content words. The article is aimed at determining the word-forming and stylistic specifics ...
To the problem of the genre repertoire transformations in the Russian art media discourse
The article is devoted to the transformation of contemporary Russian art-media discourse, manifested in a change in the genre-speech presentation of such an institutional characteristic as evaluative. Authors believe that the modern art-media discourse is aimed at broadcasting ...
Kant and His Heritage in Belarusian Philosophy of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods
... and interest in Kant’s heritage in the country increased sharply. A surge of interest was registered beginning from 2004 which was declared “Immanuel Kant Year” by UNESCO. From that time onward Belarus has hosted a number of international forums devoted to Kant, materials of conferences, articles and textbooks have been published, dissertations defended etc. The article reviews the main trends of these studies in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods.
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On quantum parallel computing
The article is devoted to the development of a methodology for studying the problems of quantum computing, mastered by students in the framework of higher education programs. On the example of a two-qubit quantum circuit performing a unitary transformation U of the ...
Ship frequency independent antenna of the VHF band
The article is devoted to the development of small-sized antenna systems to ensure stable radio communication on ships in a complex electromagnetic environment, when a large number of radio-electronic devices must be located in a limited area of the deck space. The ...
Finding optimal BKZ parametrs for NTRU lattice reduction
This article is devoted to selection of optimal parameters for lattice reduction attack against lattice-based cryptosystems that use lattices with low rank sublattices. It illustrates design flaws caused by current approach to buiding these types of cryptosystems. Its ...
A surprising tale of long-periodic spin oscillations in the synthetic antiferromagnets: some exact solutions
This article is devoted to construction of a mathematical theory capable of explaining those experimentally observable periodic magnetic oscillations in the synthetic antiferromagnet Pt/Co/Ir/Co/Pt that take place after a switch in the direction of an external magnetic ...
Numerical study of the problem of ultrasound tomography
The work is devoted to the problem of determining small sound speed fluctuations in glandular tissue for specific breast model (2D). Our approach is based on visualization of acoustical medium (inclusions and unknown inner boundary between fat and glandular tissues) ...
Economic security of the Russian-Ukrainian border regions of the Russian Federation in modern conditions
The article is devoted to the urgent problem of economic security of the Russian border regions, directly adjacent to Ukraine: Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Rostov and Krasnodar regions. The study is going to assess the level of economic security in these regions, as ...
On some aspects of psychological assistance on Instagram
The research is devoted to identifying the specifics of professional and non-professional psychological assistance provided in Instagram. The authors carried out content analysis of the accounts of 50 bloggers, 25 of whom are professional psychologists and 25 parapsychologists ...
“Svetotomy” N. М. Kononov and Plato’s “The feast”: a dialogue of cultures
The article is devoted to comparative analysis of N. M. Kononov’s short story “Svetotomiy” and Plato’s dialogue “The feast”. The research aims at identifying intertextual links between these text while the analysis establishes the dialogic nature of the ...
Language means of creating an image of a Muslim woman in internet sports discourse
... nature of a Muslim woman image, the article considers one of the aspects of its discursive representation, which is the lexical means used by the authors to portray a Muslim woman athlete. The research material comes from Russian Internet sources devoted to Muslim issues. The results of the research indicate that the word hijab is used as a key element for creating the image of a Muslim woman in sports texts. In the analyzed materials, the hijab is subjected to resemiotization, which nature depends ...
On the question of increasing the range properties of an asymmetric vibrator
The work relates to the field of applied electrodynamics and is devoted to improving antenna-feeder devices of communication means. The article attempts to justify one of the ways to expand the range properties of a short-wave pin antenna by creating conditions for constant wave resistance along the antenna. The ...