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• The “European identity” of today: a category of political practice or discourse?

  This paper considers the cultural, political, and historical problems of the development of European identity in the discourse of Europe. The author addresses the question as to whether European identity is a category of political discourse or a real instrument of European integration and comes to a conclusion that the concepts of European identity are ...

• The discourse of “European identity” in the conditions of the EU crisis

  This paper considers the problem of European identity in the conditions of the current European crisis. European identity developed over a long time on the moral and political grounds. The author arrives at a conclusion about the need to reconsider the concept of European identity in the EU crisis ...

• Modern trends in the Baltic countries in the discourse of identity: between sovereignty and European integration

  The publication reflects the problem of new identity of the Baltics in the conditions of competition between European spaces. The Baltic States are presented as a political structure, where mutually competitive identities oriented towards different centres of modern Europe are developing. In the ...

• Cultural identity: On the definition of the concept

  This article provides a detailed definition of cultural identity – a modality and an essential component of identity and its types. To this end, the study differentiates between the notions of individual and collective cultural identities as phenomena of individual and collective consciousness. Such definitions ...

• Identification discourses and the problem of identity construction

  The article deals with the problem of identity construction and the issues of interpreting the nature of identity. Through examining judgements of identification, the authors study the discursive nature of identity. The possibilities and limits of identity construction are analysed in the ...

• Age-related characteristics of English, American, and Russian compliments

  In this article, I identify and analyse the linguistic features of the generation and perception of compliments by people of different age identities from English, American and Russian cultures. Language is not the same across different age groups, which necessitates a thorough examination of age-related parameters in language and the identification of semiotic markers of age identity. The ...

• The state-civil identity among the student youth of the Russian Federation: theoretical and applied aspects

  The article touches upon the issue of state-civil identity of student youth. Theoretical analysis of the provisions of social constructivism made the author focus on the fact that state-civil identity is an element of the value component in the structure of the political consciousness ethnopolitical ...

• Identity in the conditions of globalisation and regionalisation

  This article considers the influence of globalisation processes on the development of the crisis of historical and ethnocultural identity and describes the factors affecting the ethnocultural identity transformation. The author analyses how globalisation results in both the blurring of ethnocultural identity and the intensification of regionalisation processes. 1. Андрейчук ...

• 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....

• Russians in Latvia: Peculiarities of Socio-cultural Adaptation and Identity

  The author identifies trends and variations of the socio-cultural identity and integration of Russians in Latvia. According to the author, 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....

• Maintaining ethnocultural identity and the problems of education: Russians in Lithuania

  This article focuses on the problems of preserving ethnocultural identity in the conditions of globalisation and blurring of cultural distinctions, first of all, the possible loss of ethnocultural identity of Russian-speaking population in the post-Soviet space of the Republic of Lithuania. A specialised survey is ...

• The identity and collective memory of Kaliningraders in recent Polish studies

  This paper is a review of recent Polish studies on identity and collective memory in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation. Polish authors have analysed the development of Kaliningrad regional identity – a process closely related to collective memory changes and politics of memory. Scholars ...

• Borders and Identity in Theory and Practice of the Eastern Baltic Region

  ... geographically predetermined. The political borders of post-Soviet states do not coincide with the ethnic ones and, therefore, the attempts to consolidate states through ethnic mobilization meet corresponding resistance from groups with a different identity. In the Baltic region, these processes have not reached the Ukrainian scale; however, there are prerequisites for ethno-political conflicts of this type. The post-Crimean political debate in the Baltic states has shown that that hardliners of ...

• The ethno-political discourse of regional identity in former Yugoslavia: The Bosnian syndrome

  This article analyses the features of national identity in modern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The limitrophe ethnocentrism dominant in the regions of former Yugoslavia contributes to increased tension. It is assumed that all political problems of Bosnia and Herzegovina relate to the lack of a common identity,...

• Russian Population Ethnic Structure: Trends and Transformations

  ... of the differences in migration trends during the two inter-census periods and the socioeconomic situation in the regions. The urbanization rate of major ethnic groups is an indirect indicator of the prospects of traditional “primordial” ethnic identities in different ethnic groups. Special attention is paid to new trends — an increase in the number of people refraining from answering the question about their ethnic identity or giving an unclear answer. Alongside serious census errors, this ...

• Social identity in the conditions of cultural diversity: A search or imposition? (the case of the Kaliningrad region)

  This article discusses the development of social identity in the modern Russian society in the case of the Kaliningrad region. Based on an analysis of the regional public discourse and the data of surveys and case studies, the author considers the process of promoting and imposing a model of normativity ...

• Semiholonomical, holonomical and trivial spaces of affine connection

  In n-dimensional space of affine connection An,n with Cartan’s structure equations Ricci’s and Bianchi’s identities were received. Their invariance has been shown. After prolongation of the structure equations using Laptev’s lemma semiholonomical, holonomical and trivial manifolds are defined. The Ricci’s identities allowed us to prove semiholonomicity ...

• 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 ...

• The linguistic and stylistic means of expressing identity in com¬plimentary phrases (based on modern English, American, and Russian fiction)

  ... 1994. 9. Eugenides J. Middlesex // Большая онлайн-библиотека. URL: http://www. e-reading.biz/bookreader.php/70922/Eugenides_-_Middlesex.html (дата обращения: 12.02.2013). Kurakina N. compliment, age-related identity, mature age-related identity, youth age-related identity, English culture, American culture, Russian culture. 152-157

• Regional identity as an important component of a bachelor of linguistics’ university training

  The article is devoted to considering the significance of regional identity in the context of language education of a bachelor of linguistics. The authors identify the key requirements for professional training, the content of the no-tion of “regional identity”, and the learning environment of language univer-sities ...

• Inhomogeneous Homothety and Integral Identities for Solenoidal Fields

  There is proved a new set of integral identities. To this problem the inte­rest is explained by hydrodynamics problems. 1. Соболев С. Л. Об одной новой задаче математической физики // Известия АН СССР. Сер. матем. 1954....

• The development of nationalist identities in the Baltics: The Latvian aspect

  This article discusses the development of post-Soviet nationalist identity in Latvia under the influence of nationalist neo-Nazi organizations and persuasion. The ethnic component occupies a central place in today's political identification in Latvia. It is proved that major political groups and parties recognize and ...

• The attempts of founding of the Russian Idea as a Russian nation specific component of intercultural communication

  The article reviews the foundation and development of the concept of the Russian Idea in the Russian philosophical and social thinking, its main definitions, content, as well as critics. The significance of development of national identity and cultural self-determination for effective intercultural communi-cation is pointed out. Besides, the role of the Russian Idea as a Russian nation specific component, forming the national identity, when dealing with intercul-tural communication ...

• Personality in a multicultural world

  ... understanding and the individual’s adaptation to reality. General knowledge, reflection, the extension of meaning, self-esteem, a system of values, logic and cognition form the basis of understanding. The author analyses the concept of multicultural identity and explores the problems of non-conflict integration of the personality in the multicultural world. 1. Андреева Г. М. Психология социального познания. М., 2005. 2. Диалог культур и партнерство ...

• Eastern Europe. On the centenary of the political project

  ... functional analyses and the system ap¬proach are used in the study. The central hypothesis is that, as a political project, Intermarium reflects an important part of the systemic features of Eastern Europe as a political region. However, it is not identical to the region in terms of its geography or political regionalism. The anti-Russian sentiment of the Intermarium project is dominant. Yet, it is not immanent in this group of concepts. Reformatting the Inter¬marium concept in line with the new ...

• The transfer of the ownership of the objects of cultural heritage of the Kaliningrad region to the Russian Orthodox Church: the social and cultural aspects of the conflict

  This article focuses on the factors having influenced the formation of the conscious attitude to the past of the Kaliningrad region in the local residents. The author shows that a special regional identity, which developed in the interaction with the unique cultural environment, requires a public discussion as decisions concerning the transfer of the ownership of cultural and historical objects to a religious organisation are made. Karpenko ...

• A ‘divided history’: the politics of memory on the territory of the former East Prussia in the light of current discussions

  ... particular during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Modern historiography is used as an example to demonstrate that ‘memory sites’ and the ‘politics of history’ are the most relevant concepts in the study of the culture of remembrance and identity, whereas a comparative analysis proves to be effective for the identification of the main features of the politics of memory on the territory of the former East Prussia. 1. Assmann, А. 2014, Dlinnaja ten' proshlogo: Memorial'naja kul'tura ...

• Small business developing the regional Identity: a case study in the Baltic Sea Region

  This article compares the frequency of the use of the toponym 'Baltic' in the names of small enterprises in Baltic cities. The author draws conclusions on the role of small business in the development of regional identity in the Baltic Sea region and assesses the prospects for the formation of a regional business community in the Baltic region. 1.  Барыгин И.   Н. (ред.) Дискурс в региональном контексте — Балтийское ...

• Russia and the European Union: an elusive quest for common values?

  ... Vol. 35, no. 1, p. 79—97. doi: 10.1080/01402382.2012.631315. 6. Bùrca de, G. 2011, The Road not Taken: the EU as a Global Human Rights Actor, American Journal of International Law,Vol. 105, no. 4, p. 649—693. 7. Chepurina, M. 2011, Is Russian Identity European Identity? InFocus, no. 4, 21 April, available at: http://infocusrevue. com/2011/04/21/is-russian-identityeuropean-identity/ (accessed 6 March 2012). 8. Dyomkin, D., Kozhevnikov, R. 2011, Russia raps OSCE election "double standards" ...

• The facets of German mentality and the search for a national identity in Germany’s sociocultural context at the turn of the century

  This article studies the works of Russian and international scholars to examine German mentality in the transitional period of the reunification of Germany. Another objective is to analyze the search for a new national identity at the turn of the century in the sociocultural context. To this end, the authors conduct a diachronic analysis of the national literary consciousness. The article identifies the psychological, sociocultural, political, and ideological causes ...

• Witnessing in criminal proceedings

  This article analyses witness participation in criminal proceedings. The author pays special attention to witness immunity and relevant forensic analysis. The significance of this institution is characterized from the perspective of the identity of a witness. The author stresses the importance of developing a unified approach to the procedural status of a witness. Forensic study of the identity of a witness is a key point point in the development of the institution of witnessing. ...

• Covariant differentials and covariant derivatives associated with surface of projective space

  The paper is concerned with m-dimensional surface in n-dimensional projective space. In studying fundamental-group connection Bianchi identities are found. It is proved that alternated covariant derivatives for the components of the first type connection object are equal to the corresponding components of the curvature tensor, and the ones of the third type vanish. 1. Шевченко ...

• The Youth in Kaliningrad, Gdansk and Klaipeda: Geopolitical Vision of the World, Identity and Images of the Other

  ... Kaliningrad in the neighbouring Polish regions can prove worthwhile. Apart from the measures aimed at strengthening the region’s economic base, it is necessary to increase the symbolic capital of Kaliningrad to achieve harmonious development of Kaliningrad identity. 1. Baltijskij uzel [Baltic node], 2001, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, available at: http://www.ng.ru/regions/2001-03-28/4_bend.html (accessed 05.07.2014). 2. Bubenec, А. 2001, Jeskadrennyj subekt "Kaliningrad" [Squadron subject "Kaliningrad"],...

• The influence of the border position of the Pskov region on the socio-cultural values of the population

  This article presents the results of a sociological research on national and supranational (civilizational) identity of the Pskov region population conducted in 1999—2010. The Pskov region is the only European region of Russia that shares borders with three states, two of which are members of the EU. The author defines the areas of the neighbouring countries' ...

• The topic of cultural identity in N. Lossky’s personalism

  ... глобализации // Вестник Бурятского государственного университета. 2013. Cер.: Философия, социология, политология, культурология. Вып. 14. Savintsev Vyacheslav social identity, national character, substantial figure, freedom, religion, ideal, social experience, mentality 103-110

• Contextual conditionality of gender-marked lexemes in German male-written memoires of the 19th—20th centuries

  The author investigates the use of gender marked lexemes in retrospective texts of the 19th and 20th century written by male authors. Gender identity in the male written texts is reflected in gender marked lexemes (GML), representing subjective autonominations realized at the lexical level in subjectified and objectified ways. A specific feature typical of the actualization of GMLs relevant ...

• The "Subjectivity and identity" International research conference

  Sokolov P. V. 106-110 10.5922/0207-6918-2011-1-13

• "The historical identity of the residents of Kaliningrad, Klaipeda and Olsztyn" international research workshop

  A. A. Kuznetsov 148

• The thinking of nature and the nature of thinking — Cohen on Spinoza

  ... understand the main causes of a Cohen’s critical attitude to Spinoza. Spinoza's pantheism, according to Cohen, leads to various unacceptable conse-quences: identification of ethics as metaphysics, which is referred to as an ontology and rests on a false identity, the disappearance of the very possibility of ethics is no difference between being of nature and being of obligation, the opposition against finalism in the name of necessary natural laws. Therefore, we are talking about thinking that even in ...

• Political reconsideration of the Soviet past: attitudes and actions of the Lithuanian elites

  ... partinės preferencijos 2004—2005 m. Praeities ir dabarties vertinimas, ateities lūkesčiai’ in Lietuva, Vilnius, Europos Sąjungoje, pirmieji metai (Firidas). 4. Eyerman, R. 2001, Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 5. Heisler, M. O. 2008, Challenged Histories and Collective Self-Concepts: Politics in History, Memory, and Time‘, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, no. 617, p. 199—213....

• Криминалистическое изучение личности свидетеля: основные методы

  ... обосновывают необходимость разработки криминалистического учения о личности свидетеля. This article considers the concept and the basic techniques and methods of forensic study of witness identity and focuses on the possibilities of its practical application in investigative and judicial practice. The authors justify the need for developing a forensic doctrine of witness identity. 1. Лушечкина М. А. Криминалистическое ...

• Embedding imagology in Translation Studies

  ... in Europe. Istanbul: Isis. Lasorsa, D. and J. Dai, 2007. When News Reporters Deceive. The Production of Stereotypes. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 84(2), pp. 281—298. Le, E., 2006. The Spiral of ‘Anti-Other Rhetoric’: Discourses of Identity and the Interna­tional Media Echo. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. Leerssen, J., 2016. Imagology. On Using Ethnicity to Make Sense of the World. Iberic@l, 10, pp. 13—31. Leerssen, J., n. d. A Summary of Imagological Theory. Available ...

• On the role of anthroponyms in language and culture

  The article deals with the functioning of personal names in Russian and English cultural contexts. The focus is placed on the factors determining the role of the anthroponym in the formation of the national world view and the individual's cultural identity. 1. Берестнев Г. И. Слово, язык и за их пределами. Калининград, 2007. 2. Бойко Л. Б. Антропоним как объект герменевтического толкования при ...

• The concept of the European Union’s normative power

  ... 02.08.2015). 32. Nye, J. 1990, Bound to lead: The changing nature of American Power, New York, Basic Books. 33. Nye, J. S. 2011, The future of power, New York, Public Affairs. 34. Cerutti, F., Lucarelli, S. (eds.), 2008, The Search for a European Identity: Values, Policies and Legitimacy of the European Union, London and New York, Routledge. 35. Wang, Y. 2009, The Identity Dilemmas of EU Normative Power: Observations from Chinese Traditional Culture. In: Gerrits, A. (ed.) Normative Power Europe ...

• The branding of design hotels and hostels: the role of verbal communication

  ... монография. Волгоград, 2016. С. 25—42. 9. Юнг К. Г., Франц М.-Л. фон, Хендерсон Дж. Л. Человек и его символы / под ред. С. Н. Сиренко. М., 1997. 10. Anholt S. Competitive Identity: The New Brand Management for Na­tions, Cities and Regions. 1st ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 11. Anholt S. Places: Identity, Image and Reputation. Pal­grave Macmillan, 2009. 12. The Design Hotels ™ Book. Design Hotels AG, 2018. ...

• Cognitive and speech characteristics of an author of a mnemonic text

  The focus of the article is on various aspects of the creative identity of an author of a mnemonic text represented by the concept of cognitive and communicative subject. The features of the author’s cognitive, communicative, discursive, and linguistic identities are described and the ways of their representation ...

• Russian Exclave on the Baltic Sea: Evolution of Exclavity and Ways to Overcome It

  ... peculiarities of the emergence and evolution of exclavity of the Kaliningrad region. The article analyses the influence of exclavity on the connections of the region with the Russian mainland, its economic development, exclave administration, and Kaliningrad identity and examines the ways the existing disadvantages can be overcome. Methods of overcoming these disadvantages are suggested in the article. 1.   Об утверждении Программы социально-экономического развития ...

• Russians in Lithuania: a Study in Socio-Cultural Identity

  1. Андрейчук Н. В., Гаврилина Л. М. Феномен калининградской региональной субкультуры (социально-философский и культурологический анализ).Калининград, 2011. 2. Брюшинкин В. Н. Особенности исследования идентичности // Ценности и смыслы. 2010. № 5(8). С. 84—93. 3. Хантингтон С. Кто мы?: Вызовы американской национальной идентичности. М., 2004. Bryushinkin V., Andreychuk N., Mazur J. 60-74

• Models of narrative syntactics as a tool for analysing images of states

  ... Проблема образа государства в международных отношениях в рамках конструктивистской парадигмы // Политэкс. 2007. № 3. С. 253—260. 9. Wendt A. Collective identity formation and the international state // American political science review. N. Y., 1994. Vol. 88, № 2. P. 384—396. 10. Krzyżanowski M. The Discursive Construction of European Identities. Frankfurt a/M, 2010. 11. Моррис Ч. У. ...

• The Image of Contemporary Russia n Language and Culture: the Thematic Issue of «Russian Review»

  ... discursive practices has led to an intensive study of the image of state, as well as head of state in various spheres of communication. The image of the country is an intangible resource, which is extremely important not only for the formation of national identity, but also for the position and role of the country in the world and its international policy. The aim of the reviewed issue is to promote exchange ideas among scientists whose research in various scientific disciplines contributes to a deeper ...