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Middle Byzantine brick decoration in the churches of the Caucasus and Kievan Rus
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Vinogradov A., Jolshin D.
The article discusses Middle Byzantine brick decoration in the churches of the Caucasus and Kievan Rus
Nedopekina A., Журнал региональной истории 2025 Т. 9 № 4 С. 1224–1270
The article focuses on the role and specificity of the Armenian Question in the Russian public sphere of St Petersburg and Moscow in the early 1880s, a period of the first tension between the government and the Armenian subjects of the empire. The study of the four major newspapers reveals the relationship between the state ...
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Ivanov Y., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2025 Т. 1 № 3 С. 262–273
The article is a review of Claire Kaiser's book Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus, which is dedicated to nation-building in Soviet Georgia. ...
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Stefanovich P., В кн.: Восточная Европа в древности и средневековье. Чтения памяти члена-корреспондента АН СССР В. Т. Пашуто. Выпуск XXXVII. Этно- и топонимия в социокультурных практикахВып. 37: Этно- и топонимия в социокультурных практиках.: М.: ИВИ РАН, 2025. С. 209–211.
The expression "Russian universe," which appears several times in ancient Russian sources, is analyzed. It is concluded that its meaning is similar to the expression "Russian world." ...
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Kornilova Ekaterina D., Krylenko I., Rets E. et al., Hydrology 2021 Vol. 8 No. 1 Article 24
High mountain areas are prone to extreme hydrological events, and their study is especially important in the context of ongoing intensive deglaciation. In this research, a model “chain” consisting of a hydrodynamic model and a runoff formation model is adopted to simulate a glacier lake outburst flood (GLOF) from Bashkara Lake (the Central Caucasus, Russia) ...
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Rets E., Khomiakova V., Ekaterina Kornilova et al., Science of the Total Environment 2024 Vol. 927 Article 172201
As glacier degradation is intensifying worldwide, understanding how and when glacial runoff becomes imperative for economic planning and societal adaptation in response to climate change. This research highlights a probable emergence of new low-flow periods, ranging from one to several weeks, with an anticipated 50–90 % reduction in runoff even in major rivers originating in glacierized ...
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Rasell M., Phillips S., Elena Iarskaia Smirnova, Children and Youth Services Review 2025 Vol. 178 Article 108488
Promoting the inclusion, rights and participation of diverse young people is a global policy and practice challenge. With children often positioned as ‘objects’ of care in adult-led government systems of social services, childhood is a field rife with exclusion, discrimination and inequality driven by economic, social, cultural and political forces. Processes of globalisation drive the ...
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Щеголькова Е. Ю., Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики 2018 № №2(72) С. 142–158
The article deals with the fresco of the Holy equal-to-the-apostles Thekla in the context of the painting of the Church of Transfiguration in Veliky Novgorod. Its position in the niche opposite the portrait of Yaroslav Vladimirovich, apparently, has a special meaning in the context of the events unfolding around the construction and painting of the ...
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Vinogradov A., , in: Christian Rus in the Making: Politics and Culture, Textual Production.: Leiden: Brill, 2025. P. 247–261.
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Лавренченко М. Л., В кн.: Восточная Европа в Древности и Средневековье. Вып. XXXV: Пути и способы разрешения конфликтов.: М.: ИВИ РАН, 2023. С. 107–111.
This paper address some specific functions of politicians in medieval Rus' based on kinship. On the final step of the conflict a younger brother of a ruler sometimes helps to reduce the degree of the aggressiveness by replacing the ruler himself (that was the key political actor) in the rite of making peace. This practice ...
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М.: ИВИ РАН, 2023.
Proceedings of Conference in memory of V. Pashuto ...
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Лавренченко М. Л., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2023 Т. 60 № 1 С. 102–112
The article discusses the phraseology of the relations between cities and princes, presented in the 12th-century
Kyivan Chronicle. Their relations have long been studied, including the stages of the formation of the
veche, the history of the so-called enthronement, and the degree of involvement of the clergy in this process. However, the researchers’ attention was not focused on ...
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Stefanovich P., , in: Christian Rus in the Making: Politics and Culture, Textual Production.: Leiden: Brill, 2025. Ch. 1 P. 9–26.
The divine origin or mandate of temporal/secular power was a key element of Byzantine political theories: the ruler (basileus in Byzantine Empire) was presented as ordained by God or as representing God on earth. This concept of divine mandate was based on biblical texts, including some New Testament passages, especially Romans 13:1-4. The concept was ...
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Leiden: Brill, 2025.
The religious evolution of Rus has been an on-going discussion since it first emerged as a field of study in the nineteenth century. These volumes bring to light – for a wider readership – cutting edge research on the religious culture and politics of Rus, embracing interdisciplinary approaches to the early production of Slavonic texts ...
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Stefanovich P., В кн.: Древнейшие государства Восточной Европы. 2024 год: Памяти А.В. Назаренко.: ГАУГН, 2024. Гл. 14 С. 208–219.
The author of the article analyses the story of “The Life of St. Ansgar" (written by Ansgar's student Rimbert before 876) about the military campaign of the Svei (Swedes) against the Curonians, which took place in 854. Various analogies are identified to the story of the Old Russian chronicle about the "Calling-in of the Varangians." ...
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Stefanovich P., В кн.: Восточная Европа в Древности и Средневековье. Чтения памяти члена-корреспондента АН СССР Владимира Терентьевича Пашуто. Выпуск XXXVI. Родственные и квазиродственные связи в экономической, политической, конфессиональной и культурной жизниВып. 36: Родственные и квазиродственные связи в экономической, политической, конфессиональной и культурной жизни.: М.: ИВИ РАН, 2024. Гл. 37 С. 174–176.
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Kuksina L., Belyakova P., Golosov V. et al., International Journal of Sediment Research 2025 Vol. 40 No. 1 Article 592
Flash floods are one of the most dangerous hydrometeorological events in the world. The current study investigates flash floods on the northern Black Sea Coast. The data about stochastic and relatively stable factors of flash flood formation (such as hydrological, meteorological, lithological, geomorphological, and anthropogenic parameters) were collected for 22 events. The main trigger of ...
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Pietro A. Shakarian, Europe-Asia Studies 2025 P. 1–21
Veteran Soviet statesman Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (1895–1978) is best known as a master of international diplomacy and culinary policy. Less well-known is the fact that Mikoyan served as the Kremlin’s leading authority on nationality matters under Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971). A native son of Sanahin, Armenia, Mikoyan believed that the ethnic diversity of the USSR was ...
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Litvina A., Uspenskij F., , in: From Rus’ to Rímur: Norse History, Culture, and Literature East and West.: NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. P. 17–47.
Ongoing investigation into Varangian genealogy seems to support the suggestion that some of the chronicle’s more com plex and enigmatic stories m ay echo oral histories of aristocratic families whose descendants, in one w ay or another, had personal ties to writers involved in creating the history of Rus'. ...
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Ivanov Y., Международная аналитика 2024 Т. 15 № 3 С. 108–121
This study examines the evolution of the Circassian ethno-national movement, one of the most
prominent in Russia, and its connection to the Adyghe diaspora communities in Turkey, Syria,
Jordan, Israel, Western Europe, and the United States. In the 1990s, Circassian nationalists proposed
the creation of a unifi ed Circassia, either as part of Russia or as an independent ...
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Шерстюков С. А., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2024 Т. 68 № 9 С. 101–112
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Türkiye attempted to build “special” relations with the new independent
states of Central Asia, filling the power vacuum in the region. The results of these efforts were contradictory and generally disappointing for Ankara, ending not only in decline of its activity in the region, but also abandonment of its ...
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