No 5(26) (2012)
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
24-32 474
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Globalization of Chinese economy in 1990–2010s is accompanied by the PRC’ greater political activity towards the Arctic. Based on the methodology of fundamental systemic analysis, the article provides a critical assessment of the real interests, forming general strategy, potential of resources and probable prospects of the Peking’s arctic policy. The final conclusions and recommendations are significant and relevant for China as well as for the arctic states including Russia.
33-37 399
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The article clarifies author’s typology of conflict behavior in contemporary international conflicts proposed in previous papers. Based on the methodology of analysis of the motives for conflict behavior the paper contains a classification of the most significant international conflicts 1990-2000's with the participation of Russia. In conclusion are given the results of an in-depth analysis of the Georgian- South Ossetian conflict in 2008, with an emphasis on analyzing the behavior of Georgia, Russia and the United States.
38-44 1443
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Russian-Turkish relations are developing difficultly, mutual distrust still presents, many regional problems are not settled, at the same time Russia is not interested in Turkish expansion in Eurasia. Nevertheless successful economic cooperation inevitably provides a firm basis for political rapprochement and advancing development of mutual trust in our relations. Intensive Russian-Turkish business connection provided the situation of both countries’ interdependency in tradeeconomic and energetic spheres. This situation led to the formation of Russian-Turkish political partnership.
2012 – THE YEAR OF RUSSIAN HISTORY
55-64 547
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The article restores, on a basis of unpublished documents and little–known works, the biography of Volmar Anton von Shlippenbah, one of the participants in the Northern war (1700–1721), who battled on the side of the Swedish king for the long time and finished the career on the service of the Russian Empire.
65-73 473
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The article is devoted to an examination of a question of the use of different western experts on the Russian service in the XVI century. The author tries to find out in what areas and what kind of foreign experts were used in Russia at the times of Ivan IV; what were the reasons for the use of the Western European experts as well as results and significance of this phenomenon. Changes in the position of immigrants from the Western Europe during one and a half centuries are also examined.
74-80 400
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This article deals with the successful activity of the Russian Empire cryptographers against Napoleon and his troops. Also some organizational work aspects of interception of French army cipher messages are considered.
81-85 363
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From the era of the Napoleonic wars separate us for 200 years, but with each anniversary year the interest in this time and events. The brightest page of that time was undoubtedly the Patriotic War of 1812. About the battle and the war written numerous books and articles, but most interesting are the memoirs of direct participants in the events, which include the armed forces of the Russian and French armies. They allow you to see the era of the Napoleonic Wars through the eyes of those directly involved, to understand their attitude to the war and the enemy, to determine their understanding of their duty.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
86-97 727
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German Diaspora played and plays significant role in Russian-German relations. It is very important for cooperation in humanitarian sphere, education and culture. Key actors are Germany as «the external homeland», German diaspora and Russia as «the accommodation country». In the activity concerning the Russian Germans all three parties are guided by various principles and purposes that sometimes leads to tensions and the conflicts. But as a whole we have to note that the Russian Germans became a constructive link between Germany and Russia.
98-102 571
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The article deals with an acute problem of integration of Muslim immigrants and their descendants in France. The author follows the problem throughout its history and analyzes its modern status. The article provides thorough analysis of the French Integration Model. The author concludes with a prospect on its use in the future.
103-110 482
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The national organization of Austrian Muslims in its first phase (1979–2000) was to improve dialogue between the state and Muslims, thereby making a contribution to the social integration of Muslims and their religious law and to social cohesion and so counteract social polarisation and segregation. Reality is more complicated: Muslims are not seen by others as part of Austrian society (right parties win up 18 to 30% by national and local elections) and their largest organizations are influenced by Turkish authorities or foreign fundamentalists. The construction of mosques and religious instruction at schools, supported by government as an important step towards the integration of Islam in Austria, can reach opposite goals, as the leaders of new Muslim’s political movements in Austria caution in mass-media. The activities of these new liberal movements can create a new scheme of Muslim-society cooperation and mutual understanding, in order to overcome irrational aggressive Islamophobia and sometimes reasonable Anti-Muslim prejudices.
111-116 455
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This article provides for an analysis a number of internal political factors in Mongolia that may influence to the current Mongolian-Chinese relations. Among these factors possible to note the balance of political powers, media influence, NGOs, economic and religion aspects. The final part is noted the key conclusions.
117-124 751
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The article examines one of the main questions of intercommunications between main religious and cultural systems in India: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. The article, using detailed factual material, focuses the similarities and differences between those systems, results in the basic data regarding ontology, cosmology, ethics and sociology of those systems. The article shows the interaction and mutual enrichment of so different systems.
ECONOMICS
125-131 398
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The world oil market is changing rapidly, there rises a new global center of world oil production – North America, which production opportunities are estimated by experts as outperforming those of Middle East. This is made possible thanks to inception of commercial oil production from oil shale in North America. The article deals with the problems and prospects of the development of shale oil in the U.S. and the impact of the growth of its production on the configuration of the world oil market.
132-142 599
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The article is dedicated to the progress-analysis of the development of one of the most promising fields of economy and industry of Russia as well as many other states of the world – the atomic energy sector. Its evolution and competitive advantages before the other sources of energy supply are attended in brief. Special attention is devoted to international cooperation in the atomic energy field, incentivized at the beginning of the XXI century. Dynamics of this cooperation has shown that atomic energy can and, most probably, in the nearest future, will become one of the main factors of an advanced socioeconomic development of most of the states.
143-148 538
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The article deals with one of the most important characteristics of Indian economy – its external debt. The author analyses in detail the composition of Indian external debt as well as the government’s policy on its payment. The article also presents different indicators on external debt, which characterize the depth of the economic problem for India.
149-154 545
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This article examines in detail the basis of industrial policy in Germany. The analysis of goals, actors and tools of the German industrial policy. Special attention is given to the regional dimension of industrial policy in Germany, in particular, looks at the experience of regional industrial policy in Bavaria. In addition, this article describes the types of industrial policy in Germany: the horizontal and sectoral
155-162 314
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The article is devoted to the justification of a new group of institutional instruments of innovative modernization of the financial market of the modern Russian megapolis – integrated network of development institutions. It is shown that these institutions are focused on the integration of the economic space of the megapolis and the rational structuring of the financial market.
163-166 541
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The article highlights the basic factors, defining the amount of resources available at Russian financial market, as well as the causes of long-term capital deficit. Special attention is drawn to analysis of monetary policy of the Central bank of Russian Federation, which has had a major impact on capital supply at the national financial market in recent years.
168-171 327
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The article talks about the key national indicators characterizing economic development, as well as the problems associated with the aims set in the framework of these indicators. The paper also looks at the possible changes in the existing system to asses the state of national economies and social welfare, as well as in the way institutional characteristics of a particular country are considered in this system, with the final aim of deciding on the states’ long term development strategy.
LAW
172-181 3459
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The article presents an analysis of the family relationships in ancient Babylon, in accordance with the laws of Hammurabi. The author dwells upon the characteristics of selected institutes of family law of the Amorites and comes to the conclusion that the family life in ancient Mesopotamia was very developped. The family in the Hammurabi Code represents the basis not only for economic and financial power of the state, but also for its political stability and security. The rights and obligations of spouses are not equal, but they are together, though each in his own way, achieving the main goal of the marital union - the birth and upbringing of children.
CULTURAL STUDIES
182-185 372
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It's clearly shown in the article, that sport education of students is the most important aspect of all sport activities. Taking into account the rule of humane pedagogics that mental development is the goal and the main object of educational activity, the formation of sport culture should be considered at the very first place. In the article, the author outlines patterns of sport culture and its variations.
SOCIOLOGY
186-194 354
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This article deals with the everyday discourse of the social inequality. The author analyses the ways in which humor is used to interpritate the social inequalities and the emergence of new privileged strata.
195-203 328
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The article deals with the social research methods of the crises of the physical environment provoked by natural, biological and technological factors. These crises are united by the rising hybridity of social and physical phenomena.
PHILOLOGY
204-209 776
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The article offers a short review of the history of text studies undertaken by different branches of linguistic sciences and focuses on the possibilities of the text in the foreign language classroom aiming at the development of the students’ communicative competence. The text is characterized as a form of language units actualization, as structural and semantic entity giving an insight into the mechanism for sense integration in the processes of text production and comprehension. The text is also described as a base for the development of correlating receptive and productive skills of the students.
210-214 368
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The article explores the peculiarities of semiosis of grammatical construction from the perspective of modern studies into cognitive linguistics. Setting out the bio-socio-cultural sign theory fundamental for this research, the author defines a grammatical construction as a complex representation of mental images and offers a model of cognitive processes connected with its functioning in language and discourse as illustrated by the example of a Subjunctive Mood form.
215-220 575
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The article is devoted to intercourse between the writer, the character and the reader, their roles in the process, the characteristics and nature of interpersonal relations between them. The author describes the two types of interpersonal relations: manipulative intercourse and communicative intercourse. Manipulative intercourse is looked upon as a process of depriving one participant of their individuality by the other. Special attention is paid to the nature, sources, and differences between these types of relations, their manifestation in belles-lettres, ways of transforming communication into manipulation.
221-226 339
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The article is devoted to the peculiarities of existential continuum in English biographical references, which are investigated in terms of text linguistics and discourse analysis. The text manifestation of the category of the existential continuum has, as a whole, an objective character; however subjectivity is expressed in its individual and author's partitioning of the text, a metaphorisation, figurativeness, anecdotism and the functioning of the categories of time and space as a means of the characters’ characteristics.
SCIENCE STUDIES
227-234 370
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The article describes peer review procedures used by the German Science and Research Association. It gives thorough analysis of the stages of peer review and provides a number of critical comments to the procedure regarding provision of additional information to grant applicants, increased reimbursement of the reviewers, reveal of information about the reviewers.
NEW VISION
235-239 409
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The article analyzes the reasons for the lack of a coherent system of views with the Russian elite and society in the development of the country and its place in the modern international relations, the role of LFO in the socio-economic and political transformation of the country, the main features of the ideology that is capable of justify the strategy of Russia's entry into the globalized world.
«Strategic triangle» Russia- India-China in international relations (theory and historical practice)
240-249 2027
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In article reconstructed the history of nomination and the fate of the idea of a «strategic triangle» of the three Eurasian giants - Russia, India and China (RIC); the foundations of the foreign policy and economic partnership of the three countries; examined the stages of the transformation of the idea of bringing them closer together in the geopolitical the project in the socio-political periodicals and scientific literature; the thesis about the prospects of institutional design RICK.
250-254 442
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The article reviews in system the key notion of “the labour migrant” in the sphere of employment abroad. The article contains legal features, content and practical application of the labour migrant’s legislation. The author concludes about the public importance of migrant’s institution and about the necessity of proper legal regulation in the scope.
255-259 409
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The article is devoted to a problem of manipulative influence in the Spanish political discourse. The article gives the characteristic of manipulative influence as the important function of a political discourse. One of tactics of manipulative influence are words stereotypes, words symbols and words slogans. In the article is found out the specific character of manipulative influence which used by the politicians of all persuasions.
260-264 577
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The analysis of the demographic situation in the country, the ability of national threats in a negative population growth is considered a causal relationship crisis, including, possible projections of population change of the geopolitical picture of the world.
265-269 356
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The article addresses political, economical and cultural features of the Christian democratic project of post-revolutionary Russia by one of the most influential Russian émigré thinkers – G.P. Fedotov.
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