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Social Contestations and Legal Transformations at the Margins of the Forest: Vagaries of Resource Politics in Rural India
Pacific Affairs. 2026. Vol. 99. No. 2. P. 312–319.
In India, poor and marginalized communities living in and around forests depend on these forests for food, fodder, timber, and non-timber produce. The state considers such activities to be “abuse” but, claiming some form of usufruct, the communities fight against such government claims. This essay reviews three books that consider forest communities and their relational dynamics with forests, and describe the mechanisms through which contestations have emerged over issues of forest use rights and, ultimately, led to unitary demands for legal transformation and to the enactment of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (FRA). The FRA recognizes the uncontentious hereditary and autochthonous right of forest-dwelling communities to use forest land and minor produce for maintaining a minimal livelihood. It gives them the right to hand forest land down to descendants, though not to transfer or sell it. However, the FRA process cannot stop the dispossession of lands from the forest communities, and it serves to benefit only a few, and on a case-by-case basis.
Aleskerov F. T., Вайншток А. П., Делахова А. М. et al., Информационные процессы 2026 Т. 26 № 3 С. 895–913
The development and effective management of territorial entities are priority issues for all states, particularly in the context of the digital transformation of public administration. Over the past decade, the integration of information technologies into municipal and regional planning has significantly altered approaches to strategic development, service delivery, and public engagement. This paper describes the ...
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Barchukov V., Lapin V., Grinenko A. V. et al., Veredas do Direito 2026 Vol. 23 No. 16 Article 238493
In the article, the authors consider issues related to the structure and content of the presentation, which is made by the investigator in order to eliminate the circumstances that contributed to the commission of a criminal offense. The authors have studied the experience of a number of post-Soviet countries, which in the current criminal procedure ...
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Batusova E. S., Добробаба М. В., Евсиков К. С., Издательство «Познание» Казанского инновационного университета, 2024.
The scientific works of this volume cover a wide range of topics related to digital technologies and their legal regulation. The volume contains works on the law of quantum technologies, labor and family legal relations, healthcare and intelligent transport systems, legal aspects of digital platforms, digital products and services, as well as intellectual property rights ...
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Абзалов Л. Ф., Гатин М., Мустакимов И. А. et al., Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья 2026 № 22 С. 395–406
The article is devoted to the analysis of the office of mushrif in the states of traditional Orient. The sources and researches characterize this institution in different ways. One authors consider mushrif as a representative of a treasure office, others states that he was a kind of ‘undercover agent” who fulfilled ruler’s secret orders in ...
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Batusova E. S., Веред Е. Б., Забрамная Е. Ю. et al., Информационно-издательский центр "АТиСО", 2026.
This collection of research papers addresses a wide range of issues concerning labor and employment legislation. It covers the exchange of experience regarding the development and application of labor law theory—spanning law-making and law enforcement, academic research, and legal education—amidst global challenges, the adoption of digitalization and artificial intelligence, and the transformation of the legal ...
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Коротаев А.В., Бурова А. Н., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2026 Vol. 122 No. 3 P. 160–178
The article analyzes the course and consequences of the events of the “Arab Spring” in Morocco and provides answers to two main questions: can these events be classified as a revolutionary episode, and, if so, was it successful, and to what extent? After examining the relevant historiography and comparing the approaches, concepts, and definitions of ...
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Ivanov N., Закон 2026 № 9 С. 137–142
В статье анализируются новые Правила выплаты вознаграждения за служебные изобретения, служебные полезные модели и служебные промышленные образцы, вступившие в силу с 01 сентября 2026 года. ...
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Stremoukhov D., Черников П. Е., Стародубцев А. В., Политическая наука 2026 № 3 С. 206–233
Over the past two decades, Russian urban renewal policy has evolved from fragmented and weakly demanded initiatives – such as Integrated Territorial Development (Kompleksnoe Osvoenie Territorii, KOT) and Development of Built-Up Areas (Razvitie Zastroennykh Territorii, RZT) – toward the formation of a large-scale nationwide mechanism of Integrated Territorial Development (Kompleksnoe Razvitie Territorii, KRT). This article ...
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Иванова Е. Е., Право. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 № 3 С. 109–137
The article is devoted to analyzing the legal status of digital joint-stock companies (DJSCs) and their participants under Russian law, in the context of the question of singling out DJSCs as an independent legal form of a legal entity. Drawing on the first DJSCs registered in Russia, it examines the procedure for their incorporation, the ...
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Rozhdestvenskaya E., Abramov R., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2026 Т. 29 № 3 С. 244–274
The article presents an experimental study at the intersection of social anthropology and qualitative sociology. The empirical basis is a corpus of 18 short biographical sketches of collective farm peasant women from the village of Vysheley, Penza Region, created at the end of the Soviet period by school local historians and discovered by one of the authors during a ...
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Aleskerov F. T., Chaika E., Дерендяев А. Б. et al., Procedia Computer Science 2026 No. 287 P. 590–595
Under conditions of dynamic socio-economic changes, effective planning and decision-making are key factors in ensuring a high quality of life for the population in territories. This paper presents a decision support system for territorial administrations for the development and implementation of sustainable development strategies, using one of the regions of the Russian Federation – the ...
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Gajiyev A., Deviatko I. F., Conflict Resolution Quarterly 2026
This paper explores the factors influencing ordinary judgments of justice in warfare, drawing primarily on normative theories of just war. By examining the alignment between the philosophical principles of just war and ordinary normative judgments, we explore the extent to which lay moral evaluations of war are shaped by the principles articulated in normative just ...
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Tarasov A., Правоприменение 2026 Т. 10 № 3 С. 119–127
The article examines the transformation of the structure of criminal conduct associated
with the financing of terrorist activities under the impact of digital financial technologies,
specifically virtual assets, distributed ledgers, anonymised communication channels, and
automated transfer mechanisms.
The main purpose of the study is to verify the scientific hypothesis that the digital
environment fundamentally deconstructs the traditional material forms of ...
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Романюк В. И., Закон 2026 № 9 С. 185–196
In recent years, the issue of the applicability of objective and subjective limitation periods to anti‑corruption claims, as well as the duration of such periods and the procedure for calculating them, has become particularly acute in law enforcement practice and academic doctrine. The author concludes that the statute of limitations for the so-called civil confiscation ...
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Казаков С. О., Павлюченко Е. А., Кадровик. Трудовое право для кадровика 2026 № 3 С. 57–65
This article provides a comparative analysis of labor compliance systems implemented at major Russian companies such as Gazprom PJSC, UC RUSAL, Aeroflot PJSC, Sberbank PJSC, and MTS PJSC. It examines the mechanisms, organizational models, and control procedures enshrined in the companies' internal regulations. The paper identifies trends and challenges specific to labor compliance in Russia, ...
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Nefedova A., Shmatko N., Antonova E., Социологические исследования 2026 № 9 С. 52–69
This article analyzes the transformation of professional competencies of researchers in the context of growing interdisciplinarity and the digitalization of science. The aim of the study is to identify the structural gap between the normative expectations of the scientific community and the actual outcomes of the research personnel training system in Russia. The theoretical framework ...
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Kuzminov Y., Kruchinskaia E., Koshel A. et al., М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2026.
В научном докладе цифровые платформы впервые рассмотрены не как частный сегмент цифрового рынка, а как новый институциональный механизм организации экономики. В одной исследовательской рамке соединены экономика, право, социология, компьютерные науки, информационная безопасность, данные бизнеса и регуляторная практика — все то, что позволяет взглянуть на платформы как на институт со своими правилами игры. Особую ценность работе ...
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Diskin E., Прожерин Д. В., Теоретическая и прикладная юриспруденция 2026 Т. 29 № 3 С. 221–234
Introduction: Drawing on the legal orders of the United States, the European Union, and the Russian
Federation, the article provides a comparative legal analysis of three regulatory models governing the
use of unmanned aircraft (UA; drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)) by public authorities for government oversight: the U.S. model, based on a combination of aviation rules and ...
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Pochekaev R. Y., Российско-азиатский правовой журнал 2026 № 3 С. 21–26
The article devoted to the problem of Kazakh Khanate's inheritance from the Golden Horde in the legal aspect. Basic Kazakh institutions of power and legal regulation are analyzed comparatively to the Golden Horde analogues. Author attempts to clarify the reasons why Kazakh Khanate inherited not so much of state and legal institutions from the Golden ...
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De Gruyter, 2026.
Post-Soviet Eurasia is one of the world's most geopolitically consequential and rapidly transforming regions. Developments across it increasingly reshape political, economic and social relations far beyond its borders. Understanding these dynamics is therefore both intellectually urgent and analytically demanding, requiring an interdisciplinary approach capable of moving beyond established categories and fragmented national perspectives.
This handbook provides ...
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Korolev A. S., Galimullin E. Z., Kramarenko A. et al., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2026 Т. 70 № 3 С. 17–28
This article presents a comparative analysis and conceptual differentiation of the terms “World Majority” and
“Global South”, both of which have gained prominence amid the ongoing transformation of the international order.
Special attention is given to their genesis, ideological foundations, and political-identificational characteristics. To this
end, the authors develop a framework of three analytical dimensions encompassing demographic, institutional-legal ...
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.
Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early pictorial art and epic oral narratives, through literature and visual arts, to film, music, and digital media. However, an understanding of what it means to “faithfully represent reality” is not universal; rather, it varies ...
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Ghosh S. C., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Философия. Социология. Политология (Российская Федерация) 2025 No. 84 P. 205–218
The 2015 Bangladesh student protests against a proposed value-added tax (VAT) on private university tuition are conventionally framed in public imagery as a material struggle against an economic policy threatening educational access. This article reinterprets the movement through the New Social Movement (NSM) theoretical framework, which emphasises identity formation, post-material values, and cultural contestation over ...
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Goryushina E., Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2024.
This edited volume traces the tragic history of state collapse and statebuilding, radicalisation and conflict in Chechnya, focusing on the contested and contesting role of historical memory. The time frame covered ranges from the beginning of civil mobilisation during Perestroika in the mid-1980s to the period of increasing authoritarianism, repression and militarisation in the run-up ...
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