Ethnic identity of students as a determinant of their understanding of other cultural groups
                            The article highlights the problem of interaction between representatives of different cultures, which is influenced by their social representations and ethnic identity. The aim of the work was to analyze the content of students' social ideas about members of other cultures in the context of ethnic identity. In this paper, the authors rely on the theory of social representations and the concept of ethnic identity.... 
                           
          
            
              
                            
              
                            The political elite recruitment in the Baltic: the role of the ethnic factor
                             ... resurgence of nationalism. In: The Baltic states: the national self-determination of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Basingstoke, Macmillan. 
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Smirnov Vadim
10.5922/2079-8555-2013-4-10
105-115
elites, ethnic groups, power, recruitment, Baltics
                           
          
            
              
                            
              
                            The transformation of ethnic identity in the condition of post-Soviet development of the independent states
                            This article considers the problem of ethnic identity as a polymodal one and analyses certain social, historical, and psychological aspects of its context. Language is one of the major differentiating features in terms of ethnicity. In some historical situations, ethnic identity is determined by ... 
                           
          
            
              
                            
              
                            A Critique of Latvian Integration
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                            Migration and the Transformation of Multiethnic Population Structure in the Kaliningrad Region of the Post-Soviet Era
                             ... migration processes and their influence on the transformation of multiethnic population structure in the Kaliningrad region. The author uses official statistics (current statistics and census data), as well as interviews with the representatives of ethnic cultural associations as information sources. Special attention is paid to the migration features associated with different ethnic groups. The author identifies major reasons behind the incoming and outgoing movement of population. In the post-Soviet ... 
                           
          
            
              
                            
              
                            Spatial features of the dynamics of Slavic-Turkic contact zones in the Volga-Ural region in 2010―2021
                            The article examines the dynamics of the territorial structure of contact zones between Slavic and Turkic peoples in the Volga-Ural region during the second decade of the 21st century. The empirical basis of the study consists of ethnic statistics at the municipal level, derived from the 2010 and 2021 population censuses. The article employs original methodologies for identifying the external boundaries of two-component ethno-contact zones, assessing their degree of distinctiveness ... 
                           
          
            
              
                            
              
                            Cultural discrepancy within Russian-speaking community in Israel
                             ... lingvisticheskikh issledovanii 
[Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies], 11 (1), pp. 643—664. Available at: 
http://iling.spb.ru/pdf/alp/alp_XI_1.pdf
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Al‐Haj, M., 2002. Identity patterns among immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel: Assimilation vs. ethnic formation. 
International Migration
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line computer assisted modelling. 
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                            Foreign culture images and the civilisation/barbarianism opposition in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall
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                            Dynamics of the Russian diaspora in the Baltic republics in 2018—2023
                             ... the dynamics of the representation of the Russian population in the Baltic republics during the rise of Russophobic sentiments in these countries from 2018 to 2023. The aim of the article is to identify current trends in the dynamics of the Russian ethnic population in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, considering the spatial characteristics of their settlement, and to compare this with the situation before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The research is based on official data from national statistical ... 
                           
          
            
              
                            
              
                            Current demographical processes in the Penza region
                            This article analyses the basic ethnic groups of the Penza region and identifies the demographic processes taking place within each group. The author comes to a conclusion that these processes are determined by the features of the historical development and socioeconomic standing of ... 
                           
          
            
              
                            
              
                            Russians in Latvia: Peculiarities of Socio-cultural Adaptation and Identity
                             ... since the middle 1990s, two trends have been recognized - first, the “ingrowing” of ethnic Russians into the life of independent Latvia, and second, forming their new identity. The article presents a number of factors hampering the integration of ethnic Russians into Latvian society. Variations and options of socio-cultural identity and integration (or assimilation) of the Russian population of Latvia are shown.
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                            The ethno-political discourse of regional identity in former Yugoslavia: The Bosnian syndrome
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                            Embedding imagology in Translation Studies
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                            Cultural and leisure activities as an element of ethnocultural education for younger students in a supplementary educational institution
                             ... within the framework of ethnocultural education in an additional education institution (functions, forms, means, content). As a result, factors determining the achievement of the goals of ethnocultural education for 6—11-year-old students (formation of ethnic identity and intercultural tolerance) through the participation of children in various forms of cultural and leisure activities are identified.