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Автомобиль — не роскошь, а средство десоветизации Рецензия на книгу Льюиса Зигельбаума «Машина для товарищей. Жизнь советского автомобиля» (siegelbaum L. cars for comrades. The life of the soviet automobile. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008)
The author analyzes three main approaches to luxury research and identifies the approach suitable for luxury retail. The article also presents luxury goods characteristics differentiating them from other types of goods.
This article traces the transformation of a genre of the review, traditional for the Russian journalism. This article offers the description of the speech structure of the review, based on the semantic category of an evaluation. The contemporary review occurrs not within a discourse of culture anymore, but also as a part of political or marketing communication within media environment.
Writing and publishing in good academic English has become a critical task and an integral part of contemporary university life.
The given compellation of the materials is the reaction the numerous students’ enquiries on rules and techniques of English writing. Our desire was to list the guidelines and outline the key stages of writing process of paragraphs, essays, reviews, letters, memos, minutes, faxes, CVs, reports and articles. The hope of the authors was to enrich the understanding of English writing rules and formats in order to equip all the writers, businessmen, scholars, students, trainers with the reliable information and effective tools of writing.
It is recommended to use the materials of all the units, each containing the tips, writing strategies, samples and exercises, according to the requirements of the target group and educational environment.
The paper examines the structure, governance, and balance sheets of state-controlled banks in Russia, which accounted for over 55 percent of the total assets in the country's banking system in early 2012. The author offers a credible estimate of the size of the country's state banking sector by including banks that are indirectly owned by public organizations. Contrary to some predictions based on the theoretical literature on economic transition, he explains the relatively high profitability and efficiency of Russian state-controlled banks by pointing to their competitive position in such functions as acquisition and disposal of assets on behalf of the government. Also suggested in the paper is a different way of looking at market concentration in Russia (by consolidating the market shares of core state-controlled banks), which produces a picture of a more concentrated market than officially reported. Lastly, one of the author's interesting conclusions is that China provides a better benchmark than the formerly centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe by which to assess the viability of state ownership of banks in Russia and to evaluate the country's banking sector.
The results of cross-cultural research of implicit theories of innovativeness among students and teachers, representatives of three ethnocultural groups: Russians, the people of the North Caucasus (Chechens and Ingushs) and Tuvinians (N=804) are presented. Intergroup differences in implicit theories of innovativeness are revealed: the ‘individual’ theories of innovativeness prevail among Russians and among the students, the ‘social’ theories of innovativeness are more expressed among respondents from the North Caucasus, Tuva and among the teachers. Using the structural equations modeling the universal model of values impact on implicit theories of innovativeness and attitudes towards innovations is constructed. Values of the Openness to changes and individual theories of innovativeness promote the positive relation to innovations. Results of research have shown that implicit theories of innovativeness differ in different cultures, and values make different impact on the attitudes towards innovations and innovative experience in different cultures.
The paper examines the principles for the supervision of financial conglomerates proposed by BCBS in the consultative document published in December 2011. Moreover, the article proposes a number of suggestions worked out by the authors within the HSE research team.